Dennis Chambers Shuffle

[NAThan9871]

nice groove !!



[diadww2]

great sound of your drums!

[djmoscow]

very very nice, neat, tidy, precise and with nice feeling. spot on!

[170adamb]

brilliant playing, some people seem to think that if you dont play every single note identical to how other people play it your doing something wrong.If every drummer followed this way of thinking, the drumming world would be a very dull place

[anjoojt]

hell yes than you man



[AirRaidAaron]

This is so good, it doesn't even make sense to my ears.

[willetaci]

féra, perfeito....

[grasmussenNC]

all I can say is DAMN!!!

[AlanM11Drums]

Super groove I was jammin along with ya during the fast, 160bpm section :-)

[rasddddd]

Who the heck would click on the Thumbs Down icon for this video? Hahaha :-)

[walking360]

Nicely done. You break it down well. I heard him play this groove with McLaughlin and now I understand. Gotta love Dennis!

[StevieArt]

Nice, nice. You should try to glue the bass drum better with the cymbal strokes, but it's complicated either way, so nice job.

[janknjazovic]

wow!!!! 

[Jackondrums18]

Hey man, I gotta ask, what is the sticking for this pattern as you start using the ride bell? Are you playing triplets with the bell accent on ever other note or what ? Cheers man, great vid and playing.

[RespectTheGroove]

@Jackondrums18 The ride pattern as played by Dennis requires the left hand to lead the triplets through the bar. The clearest way to get into the ride pattern is to play a "R L L R" at the beginning of the bar and then continue alternating hands after that. Example (ride is the capital R): "r l l R l r l R l r l R l r l R l r l R l r l R"

[residentdrummerpete]

your missing out a ghost note, the ghost on the snare is on both the second and third beats of the triplet subdisivion. its bloody hard though!

[RespectTheGroove]

@residentdrummerpete Good ear. Yes, I left out some of the ghost notes. I don't play all the possible ghost notes because the groove starts to sound too busy and a little bit mechanical to me. It's a personal choice.

[HippieDrummer06]

yea man that dry ride is my fav!! and you're technique and sound is just awesome

[19jord93]

That was mint. When i watch the actual Dennis Chambers shuffle it sounds like he has more ghost notes thought but im not sure.

[chuckdelawabbas]

What is the John Mclaughlin (possibly The Free Spirits) song that Dennis Chambers plays this beat on? Please someone help me out! I used to have the recording, now it's gone. Argh!

[Kierank30]

he reminds me of steve carrel

[earthisgod]

Hey Thanks man great beat, haha from the angle there you look kinda like Christian Bale LOL

[bentecho]

great hand for life.

[byLivio]

Damn,u look just like Chad Wackerman! lol

[EverythingEvil007]

How long did it take for you to get this groove down? Without the ride addition. I'm pretty good but I can't do the shuffle on the high-hats with the ghost notes on the snare....I'm so used to quarters and 8th notes on the high-hat I can't master this beat....it's frustrating.

[funkyleo1973]

I've heard DC play the ride cymbal part on a number of clips but never worked it out. This was a great help, thanks for the clip.

[rhythmicflip24]

hey man,

which model is your ride?

K Custom Special Dry Ride?

[RespectTheGroove]

@rhythmicflip24 Yes! One of my favorites.

[Kimippsen]

Damn that 160 bpm is taasty!

[hardcorehustlamaniac]

hey...........i know this guy.....he is a student of tommy igoe....

he appeared in his new DVD.."great hands for a lifetime".....

guys....do check dat out.....keeps ur hands healthy for the rest of ur life......

u dont need to practice on pillows anymore..... :)

[danieljanca]

where are the ghost notes that Dennis C. plays? or which part of your video is its description about?

[RespectTheGroove]

@danieljanca This is mainly about the 2nd half with the hi-hat/ride shift.

[SuperHighGloss]

ghost notes shoud be a bit more prominent ala dc

[krloscout]

it remembers me bernard purdie half shuffle grovee!

[krloscout]

it remembers me bernard purdie half shuffle grovee!

[overtime2005]

great job but roll at the ends was way out of time :D

[sisenor124]

hey I don't know where my comment went but! Thank you for this vid! I always wanted to figure out this groove. I came up with my own by accident, kinda reversed, and somehow sounds similar to dennis's without the "ride thing". This is inspiring!

[catslikethief]

wow... u got all the stuff

[DrumminMage]

wow

[gmozomg]

very helpful!

thank you very much :)

[malcolmpalm]

Yes, what micoo17 just said. Nicely executed!!! Thumbs Up!!

[TheBrownMan2112]

Respect the groove, indeed.

[poulter5150]

Great left hand Mate I see a lot of trad grip players and the left hand looks awfull your's looks great

[lydianflatseven]

nice feel, nice touch., nice sound. keep playin away man!

[ArabellaMusic]

You're are amazing and that ride pattern has been one of the most inspiring things i've ever seen. Thank you

[Drumauri]

Great!!!

[RobertReedMusic]

Great Groove, Great feel for the kit man. Awesome playing. 5*

[Jackinthehizzle]

YES! Loved it!

[18181881]

amazing drummer hands down!

[westcoast1965]

Nice work... sounds a lot like Dennis.

[needlessdestruction]

dammit i cant do the ghost notes

[davss5]

If you mean that you can't play grace/ghost notes lightly enough (volume-wise), then that's one thing (I need more practice in this, too)...but if you mean that you cannot understand where the grace/ghost notes come in, then here is the notation:

RgRRgR(RL)gRRgRRgRRgR(RL)g (etc.)

g = grace/ghost note

(RL) = right/left hand together; L is downbeat

[iamthewalruskookoo]

@davss5 I don't get this part: R(RL)gRR.

[davss5]

@iamthewalruskookoo ...thanks for writing/responding...the (RL) represents the right (R) hand and left (L) hand together - with the L as the snare downbeat (accent)...the g is the (left hand) grace note...

[martinlealruiz]

amazing, go black!

[EkayDrums]

ive got the porcaro groove like imprinted into my muscles now haha...thats all ive been playing for the last couple of months, its addictvie

[davss5]

Haha...the same thing has happened to me...I've played off-and-on since 1973, and it was not until during the past year that I tried to tackle the general (Bernard Purdie Half-Time Shuffle) groove...well, I finally got it, and I keep playing it over and over...I just enjoy that rolling/fluid aspect of the groove...I remember when I first started out and thought it to be awkward to include the grace note following the downbeat...now it feels so comfortable to play this groove!

[davss5]

@EkayDrums The same thing has happened to me...I like straight (non-ghosted) grooves - but I also like the "rolling, fluid" grooves like the BP Half-Time Shuffle...also, Phil Collins - who used a fair amount of ghost-noting and fluid grooves (before he simplified his drumming in the 80s) - had some influence on me...he did a full-time ghost-noted shuffle on "Get 'Em Out By Friday", and he often used ghost-noted 7/8 grooves (e.g., 2nd half of "The Cinema Show")...

[EverythingEvil007]

how do you play so fast on the high-hats with just one hand...?

[EverythingEvil007]

You're awesome, man. I wish you could teach me...

[davss5]

Practicing double-strokes (RRLLRRLL) can potentially increase your speed...

The (Bernard Purdie Half-Time Shuffle) groove involves repetitive triplets that involve doing a double-stroke on the right hand (if you're playing right-handed):

RgRRgR(RL)gRRgRRgRRgR(RL)g (etc.)

g = grace/ghost note

(RL) = right/left hand together; L is downbeat

I have confidence that you'll get it!

[scoochv]

SICK

[ns81]

Yea man - gr8 feel!

[fckbeans]

The beat is R_r, R_r, R_r, R_r on the hats (with R being the accent), and _ll, _ll, Lll, _ll on the snare (with L being the full stroke).

So both hands together is R l lr, R l lr, LR l lr, R l lr.

If that makes any sense.

[PaulGarafola]

Nice! Great mix, too. Drum & cymbals sound beautiful.

[tmonozy]

like what danieljanka was saying, this is different to the chambers groove, if it is off the song i am thinking of. i like your version alot better. i think the difference is that chambers high-hats are played with unswung quarter strokes and the left hand is filling each beat of the bar with a triplet, giving it the swung feel. your version is far more technical. this is only talking about the first section on the hats, not between the ride.

[Patrickphx11]

Here We go again..you are stupid..it would be triplets to start off with..Damm Man ..Agrue with MY DEGREE IN MUSIC YOU MORON.

[RizzoSaurusRex]

Print out degrees don't count

[bdL91]

actually it is: its a 16th note shuffle with ghosted snares in between the shufflets

[Patrickphx11]

actually you stuck moron..it is not.

[mlcoo17]

call it what you want, but this beat was invented by Bernard Purdie as a young man in the 1940's. Chambers, Porcaro, Bohnam all put a slight change of feel on it, but it's still Purdie's original " Locomotion " as he called it.

[spacitydrummer4JC]

..exactly

[decentdrummer911]

@mlcoo17 Cool.

[Wilsonbangy]

@mlcoo17 The shuffle feel with the ghost notes was used way before Purdie in military drops years before. Bernard is a wonderful drummer, but tells very tall tales IE that he played on the alot of the Beatles Albums .. Just wrong !

[mlcoo17]

@Wilsonbangy With respect, I've never heard any military drumming than comes anywhere near Purdie's funky shuffle, past or present. Even if it exists ( funky military half time shuffle ), which I seriously doubt, Purdie is the one who invented the Purdie shuffle or as he called it then, his " locomotion". I don't care what Purdie says about the Beatles. What I'm saying is that you cannot find a recording of the Purdie Shuffle prior to Bernard Purdie, it's his, he invented it as we know it.

[Wilsonbangy]

@mlcoo17 Ok thanks for clearing that one up .. Your very wrong but well done .. Have a nice life ;0)

[bteniswood]

@mlcoo17 He didn't invent the shuffle. He popularised it certainly, but the feel and shuffle groove and half time playing had been around for a long time. His particular time, and the way he played it made it a drummers favourite, but in no way did he INVENT the half time shuffle. It's kind of like saying Charlie Parker invented bop.

[mlcoo17]

@bteniswood Of course he didn't invent the shuffle. The are LOTS of shuffles, but THS shuffle in THIS style, was invented by Purdie, that's why it's known as the Purdie shuffle. I challenge anyone to show a recording before Purdie's time of the same shuffle.

[flanger001]

Damn dude! You have some incredible feel. So many Youtube drummer vids have badly recorded drums being played badly, and this one is the complete opposite. It sounds nice, looks good, and of course you can play. Thumbs up bro!

[danieljanca]

This is nicely played but you missed the ghost notes Dennis Chambers does on the snare drum. It's a lot denser and that makes it much harder partly. This is a decent video anyways.

[HammondB200]

he does them, but really soft.

[danieljanca]

Im not deaf I know he plays ghost notes. The thing is that he plays single ghost notes while Chambers does doubles which actually results in 3 consecutive hits on the snare when played after the 2nd and 4th quarter.

[Cuchufletonsky]

Gran réplica de los grooves de éstos grandes maestros tocados a un tiempo bajo para el entendimiento .................many thanks

[daitofitube]

damn thats blazing!!!

when you played it slow it sounded like you were gonna do the Babylon Sisters groove from Alive in America...Chambers rips that song up...best version i say...Ricky Lawson lays it down too but love Chambers shuffles...

...Im gonna try this...hehe

Peace

[steveyweveh]

man your good....

you play so smoothly :)

[BTKJRG]

Vientos Brother

[davss5]

very clean and steady...great job...

[winnerbaby44]

thank god someone broke it down!

[zephyrous666]

I gont get the sticking.

Do u start the groove with ur left hand?

This would explain the groove to me xD

[mattwalker21]

It's just straight alternating eighth-note triplets with your left hand starting on 1 and going to the snare on 3 and your right hand going back and forth between ride and hi-hat.

[daviethedrummer]

yes it's just hand-to-hand, RLRLRLR all the way, left hand takes the lead

[blight4hire]

not really dude. its the rosanna shuffle.

[RegalTipDrummer]

If ur a righty start with your right hand on the hi-hat on beat one along with your bass.

[stauggion]

"All I wanna do when I wake up in the mornin' is see your eyes... Rosanna, Rosanna."

[SoulbassJr]

i loved that ;)

[thenickanator]

such a hard groove to get to sound right

[MustangSheilaK]

@sawred22 stick with your cowbell, retard!

[sawred22]

you suckk

cobus is way better

[JaskaJunior]

cobus is good, but he probably never and i mean NEVER do this

[EverythingEvil007]

Exactly....Cobus has nothing on this guy, 100% positive.

[jsatzy]

I wish i could tune that well

[kLbdRums]

nice

[MustangSheilaK]

Wow, Buddy...take a bow!

;-)

[RegalTipDrummer]

thank you for this Video! helped a lot when you slowed it down! also ur set is tuned to perfection

[Volentrix]

wow, you're brilliant.

nice playing.

[crystalandytabla]

You proved to be a serious drummer who cares about sound and groove!! Very accurate too. What mics do you normally use??? I was last week in the studio and they recorded my 7 piece drumkit with 18 microphones... result: shit. I was really upset since it's gonna be on an album and I don't really like the sound. I want to record my own kit by myself so what do you suggest? thx man

[Jaythedrummerman]

wow 18. man i never go above 10 i try to keep it fresh and open. you should maybe try shures five piece SM57 series percussion mics just get some add ons they are really crisp and easy to EQ also shure has great warranty options. i was just in a studio last monday and they recorded my 6 piece with vintage teletronics and blauponk gear. amazing tone.

[briankingston76]

My hat is off to you good sir. Too much showing off and not enough groove on youtube. This is a tasty exception. Loved it. Is this a specific groove by Chambers, or just a general Chambers-esque groove?

[vichrischner]

congratulations!! very good

[VittorioPetrina]

nothing of special....very easy to play...

[littlestrider20]

awesome !

[intotubintoo]

Very nice playing.

Chambers' shuffle sounds more like the shuffle is on the snare, though. I can't believe no one has mentioned this. What you're playing is basically the perdie or porcoro shuffle, with the shuffle on the hats....no?

[bonzo1989]

the first shuffle on the hi hat only needs more ghost notes, it makes it sound cooler, and at 180 ;)

[drumminglad]

Control is out of this world.

[tylerLhobbs]

Fuck that's an awesome beat!

[Symmetry44]

Straight up great playing here man.

[Dave747Pilot]

veryyyy porcaro!! awesome. he would approve.

[pinito15]

grosisimo!!! very very good!

[JRcmty]

Sorry i didnt read the description

[JRcmty]

Sorry the original shuffle is not from dennis chambers, is from Jeff Porcaro

[jonathan2x4]

ive been looking at the original one from Dennis, and you got it man. sickness!

ima start working on this..

[Jvi1990]

The first part of the shuffle really sounds like the 'Rosanna-Shuffle' from Jeff Porcaro! You nailed it again, well done!;)

[djinniboo]

excellent way to show us how it's done. solid groove!

[DrumNhg]

dude, thats it! Thnx man...

[yulelovethebeats]

You nailed it, dude. Thanks for posting.

[rjproud]

awsome dude.. drums are class too, wat are they?

[rudeboyjohn]

are you palying on a yamaha maple custom?

[RespectTheGroove]

Yep! My favorite drums. Snare is the Erskine 4x14 piccolo maple shell. HH are 14" Sabian AAX Fast Hats while the rest of the cymbals are various Zildjian Ks.

[timwalkersings]

Similar to the Bernard Purdie Drum Shuffle

[drummwill]

stellar dewd,

[milkfromrice]

bravo. well done

[tonyswarstuff]

i like this. the tuning of the drums sound very nice

[Drumming2thelord]

You're now on my top 10 favorite drummers list.

MUCH respect!

[Nivek20]

well done dude...its a sick shuffle and very accurate...try playing "pick hits" from Chambers "In The Pocket" dvd/book...the groove is really syncopated with the bass and really funky...