Bernard Purdie backing on the drums
Drumming style
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Purdie is known as a groove drummer with immaculate timing and makes use of precision half note, backbeats, and grooves.[2] Purdie's signature sixteenth note hi-hat lick pish-ship, pish-ship, pish-ship is distinct.[6] He often employs a straight eight groove sometimes fusing several influences such as swing, blues and funk. He created the now well-known drum pattern Purdie Half-Time Shuffle that is a blues shuffle variation with the addition of syncopated ghost notes on the snare drum.[21] Variations on this shuffle can be heard on songs such as Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain", the Police's "Walking on the Moon", and Toto's "Rosanna" (Rosanna shuffle).[21][22] Purdie plays the shuffle on Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters"[23] and "Home At Last".[21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie#Drumming_style
PS; I like Aynsley Dunbar as well.
Local drummers I knew can't get close to his style (20th century).
Drumming style
Purdie shuffle variants[20] About this soundPlay (help·info).
Purdie shuffle variant[21] About this soundPlay (help·info).
Purdie is known as a groove drummer with immaculate timing and makes use of precision half note, backbeats, and grooves.[2] Purdie's signature sixteenth note hi-hat lick pish-ship, pish-ship, pish-ship is distinct.[6] He often employs a straight eight groove sometimes fusing several influences such as swing, blues and funk. He created the now well-known drum pattern Purdie Half-Time Shuffle that is a blues shuffle variation with the addition of syncopated ghost notes on the snare drum.[21] Variations on this shuffle can be heard on songs such as Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain", the Police's "Walking on the Moon", and Toto's "Rosanna" (Rosanna shuffle).[21][22] Purdie plays the shuffle on Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters"[23] and "Home At Last".[21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie#Drumming_style
PS; I like Aynsley Dunbar as well.
Local drummers I knew can't get close to his style (20th century).
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