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The Purdie Shuffle


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[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1502571445' post='3352293']
He makes it look so easy I was almost imagining I could do it too.
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I was lucky enough to be able to gatecrash a drum seminar with Mr Purdie back in the '90s at The Musicians' Institute in Wapping. (It was for the drummers, but I snuck in even though I was just a bass player).

I think that he makes the shuffle look so easy because (for him) it is easy! It's his default mode, like an engine at tickover. I remember watching him trading evermore impressive licks with Tony Muschamp, till he finally cried out, "Whoa, that's too much! - I'm gonna fall back and just do a bit of shuffle for a bit", which it seemed that he could do for hours on end, whilst conversing with the audience!

Everyone in the room was blown away by his playing - I'm glad that I wasn't one of the drummers, because if I was, I don't think that I would have picked up a pair of sticks ever again - after seeing someone that impossibly good, what would be the point?

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[size=4]I thought [color=#545454][font=arial, sans-serif]John 'JR' Robinson had taken over that little position.[/font][/color][/size]
[color=#545454][font=arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color][color=#545454][font=arial, sans-serif]But then again, all the worlds most recorded drummers make that claim on their websites. :D[/font][/color]

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[quote name='BassAgent' timestamp='1503947365' post='3361785']...
Don't know how to embed this :sorry:
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Edit the link, once pasted, to remove the 's' from 'https'...

[media]http://youtu.be/ex2YG_-3Ov0[/media]

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[quote name='BassAgent' timestamp='1503947365' post='3361785']
There is a great video by Keith Carlock about playing shuffle, and he has a pretty decent Purdie shuffle as well as a Porcaro shuffle...
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex2YG_-3Ov0"]https://www.youtube....h?v=ex2YG_-3Ov0[/url]

Don't know how to embed this :sorry:
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Loved that! Can you imagine playing with that going on in the band?!

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If was mentioned several months back (when the above video first appeared) that Bernard Purdie was wearing a T-Shirt with him on it...
Priceless... :D
(Quite the character, although it is hard to tell from the video).

[url="https://postimg.org/image/4vkk4ho83/"][/url]

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