What is this rhythm style called?

des1303

https://open.spotify.com/track/1V8ReVXgHQCAICeWeCE0du

Reminds me a bit of funk, but not sure.

Related, any suggestion on a good forum for such general music questions like this? I hesitated for a while before posting here.

jwmmakerofmusic

It's not Funk but more Blues with a nice swing in 6/8 time signature. The snare is a brushed snare.

[Deleted User]

It’s generally called “Blues Shuffle”. If you search Blues Shuffle on YouTube you should find tutorials, and you can gauge if that’s how you’re hearing it.

royor

That’s a slower funky 16th swinging groove played with brushes in 4/4.. If you switched out the brushes for sticks it would probably sound funkier to you..
It’s a 2-handed groove with the left hand playing plenty of ghosted snare notes, filling in the spaces on the off beats..

Soft Drummer from Lumbeats has plenty of grooves like this..

jwmmakerofmusic

@royor said:
That’s a slower funky 16th swinging groove played with brushes in 4/4.. If you switched out the brushes for sticks it would probably sound funkier to you..
It’s a 2-handed groove with the left hand playing plenty of ghosted snare notes, filling in the spaces on the off beats..

Soft Drummer from Lumbeats has plenty of grooves like this..

Nice! I'll be purchasing Soft Drummer soon.

michael_m

@royor said:
That’s a slower funky 16th swinging groove played with brushes in 4/4.. If you switched out the brushes for sticks it would probably sound funkier to you..
It’s a 2-handed groove with the left hand playing plenty of ghosted snare notes, filling in the spaces on the off beats..

Soft Drummer from Lumbeats has plenty of grooves like this..

Agreed, it’s a swung 4/4 time signature.

The brush work and the staccato keyboards give it a some interesting color beyond the standard blues swung 4/4.

McD

That’s a “half time” shuffle where the back beats are on the 3rd pulse whereas a typical shuffle would backbeat 2 and 4.

To get the typical MIDI sequencer piano roll layout to do it put the bass on 1 and the snare on 3 with hi-hat’s playing 16ths With swing turned up to triplet levels.

Here’s a piano roll layout in the “Rock DM” app:

https://forum.audiob.us/uploads/editor/ya/gckiffd62qi0.png

Stuntman_mike

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des1303

@McD said:

That’s a “half time” shuffle where the back beats are on the 3rd pulse whereas a typical shuffle would backbeat 2 and 4.

To get the typical MIDI sequencer piano roll layout to do it put the bass on 1 and the snare on 3 with hi-hat’s playing 16ths With swing turned up to triplet levels.

Here’s a piano roll layout in the “Rock DM” app:

https://forum.audiob.us/uploads/editor/ya/gckiffd62qi0.png

Can that kind of rhythm pattern be exported & shared?

michael_m

@des1303 said:
@McD said:

That’s a “half time” shuffle where the back beats are on the 3rd pulse whereas a typical shuffle would backbeat 2 and 4.

To get the typical MIDI sequencer piano roll layout to do it put the bass on 1 and the snare on 3 with hi-hat’s playing 16ths With swing turned up to triplet levels.

Here’s a piano roll layout in the “Rock DM” app:

https://forum.audiob.us/uploads/editor/ya/gckiffd62qi0.png

Can that kind of rhythm pattern be exported & shared?

You should be able to, as long as whatever you create it on can set a swing value.

des1303

Thank you, all!