What Is Blues Guitar Shuffle Rhythm
Zack Roberts
So you have understood the 12-bar blues or at least the concept of it and you would like to push your blues playing to higher grounds.
Well your in luck my friend!
The better way to invigorate up your playing is to learn the blues shuffle rhythm. I am not sure where the name derives from, but the shuffle is a term used to identify the break down of a beat into 2 components where the first is lengthier than the second.
The blues shuffle rhythm is founded on an eighth note triplet rhythm. A triplet is when you use 3 notes in a given time space instead of two. In a standard 4/4 time signature where there is four quarter notes the eighth notes would be counted as...
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