Purdie shuffle en · NOUN
Etymology
Named after jazz and R&B drummer Bernard Purdie.
Meanings
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A style of rhythm in popular music incorporating precise half note, backbeats, and grooves.
Thirty-five or forty years later, every drummer in the world has to learn the Purdie shuffle.
2024 April 11, Menzie Pittman, “23: Bernard Purdie”, in The New Musician: The Art of Entrepreneurship in Today's Music Business, →ISBN, page 359:The Purdie shuffles below use diddles with ghost notes.
2022 December 14, Max Freeman, The Big Drum Book: Applications of Rhythm & Groove for Drum Set, Max Freeman Music, →ISBN, page 155:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purdie shuffles | Number=Plur | lexicographic |