Shuffle Drum Beat

At 33% swing the off-beat 8ths land on the last triplet: the classic blues/rock shuffle.

96 BPM33% swingBlues

Steps

Warm, filtered, knocking drums for lo-fi and boom bap

808 bass & chords

F7 → A#7 → F7 → C7

Chord sound
808
CHD
F7 · then A#7, F7, C7 on later loops

The 808 follows the chord root in each bar; set a step's offset to walk the bassline. Pads hold until the next chord hit. Stabs are short.

Click a step once for a hit, twice for an accent, three times to clear. Space plays/stops, T taps tempo, R makes a random beat.

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How to program it

  1. Tempo 80–120 BPM.
  2. Kick on steps 1, 7, 9 and 15; snare on 5 and 13.
  3. 8th hats.
  4. Set swing to about 33% so each off-beat lands on the last note of a triplet.

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Step chart · one bar of 16th notes, numbers mark the beats

Questions

What is a shuffle beat?

A shuffle splits each beat into a long-short pair based on triplets (two thirds + one third) instead of two even 8ths. It is the feel of blues, early rock and roll and many swing styles.

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