Blues Guitar Lesson: How to Play a Flat Tire Blues Shuffle | Rhythm Guitar | Berklee Online

[@fivetimesyo]

That's the Pride and Joy groove.

[@imannonymous7707]

Yes thats true but the point is its been used in many eras and tracks. Blues is steeped in tradition. These grooves were passed around. but yes its in pride n joy cold shot empty arms and many other tracks too..sorry just sayn. Stevie would probably say it himself rip

[@LaMusicade4]

This is by far the coolest thing I’ve seen today

[@TooLooze]

Thanks! It gives me a zydeco reggae feel. Of course, everything does...

[@Guitarmalade]

Sauce! Never heard it referred to as the flat tire rhythm but it makes sense! Thanks!

[@JoeandAngie]

Updoot for sauce

[@slowraceultra]

I just discovered this channel, thankyou for sharing your knowledge, it's much appreciated, thumbs up.

[@bora.celiker]

'The Hustle Is On' and 'T Bone Shuffle' by the great T-Bone Walker are text book examples of this groove; if you're looking for an up tempo version, check out the opening track (Everyday I Have The Blues) of one of the most celebrated blues albums of all time, 'Live At The Regal' by BB King..

[@ronniewall1481]

T BONE IS FROM TOWN NEXT TO MINE. LINDEN TEXAS. OTHERS FROM THIS AREA SCOTT JOPLIN ROSCOE BECK DON HENLEY.

[@walterkersting6238]

It lifts the song up.

[@tom_something]

Right on the money with "dump TEE-dump TEE". I think even if someone doesn't know what a shuffle or a swing or a triplet is, they could just read "dump TEE" and they'd know exactly what's up. The swing is inherent to those sounds, even when written out.

[@markskywalker71]

Great lesson Mike, I really miss your Berklee weekly lessons, I learned a lot from you. Ciao from Italy. (Marco)

[@clarkhull7546]

That was really cool! Great demonstration!

[@donyoung7874]

Keith Richard did that a lot with rhythm. A good example is "I Know It's Only Rock n Roll".

[@davenatale850]

The flat tire groove is a beautiful thing, as long as everybody else is in on it!

[@jackogburn3910]

Listen to Duke Robillard "Too Hot to Handle" for a great example of this groove.

[@ronfrey5327]

excellent teaching thank you..

[@dylanbuckle114]

Brilliant! Thank you

[@charleys2905]

I’m always amazed the places where the light bulb moment comes

[@AtullyaTomer]

Keep it up

[@GaveMeGrace1]

Thank you

[@haydncole5700]

such a good professor, loved our lessons back in the day.

[@danielhoskins4690]

Genuine question: How is that different from a Jamaican Ska groove? Like early Prince Buster?

[@mral13131313]

I presume it’s because of the backing track that makes it sound “Blues”.

[@cambium0]

does the ska groove actually swing (//! //! //! //!)? or is it (/! /! /! /!) where ! is the stroke

[@slaterslater5944]

I'm probably wrong, but twice the tempo? I.e snare on the three and chop on the two for reggae/ska/bluebeat.

[@paulmurphy8993]

It's not.

[@luarongyi8058]

I was wondering that too! But I think for ska there’s a left hand mute and you play downstrokes. And I don’t think ska has a shuffle rhythm, there are triplets variations but not in the same way

[@madmad8582]

I like your Guitar that sounded very nice, she looks old very cool , i love those chords too nice very cool :-)

[@portsideguitar1981]

Good stuff!

[@TropicalLatitude]

Excellent discussion of creating the JUMP in jump blues.

[@michaelsparks8632]

Love it!

[@aricmorrison314]

Great toan coming from Roberta 😍

[@Deliquescentinsight]

You rarely come across just an upbeat repeating like this, it is normally a part of the shuffle, where you emphasize the up beat

[@PeWeHH]

I second that. It's a lot easier to keep this rhythm and it sounds a lot more natural if you also play the downbeat but mute it.

[@TheSebtrain]

Get yourself on some Junior Watson

[@fr1nkly]

best flat tire was SRV Cold Shot

[@j3tztbassman123]

The algorithm sent me. Interesting concept.

[@ross4143]

See Daniel Hoskins comment below. Jamaican jazz artists were influenced by New Orleans and vice versa. See the Skatalites, fore example. Jamaican Jazz, Bluebell, Mento and ska, are all based on either straight eights, or swing eighth note shuffle riddims. Cheers from SpoCanada

[@brendaboykin3281]

Thanx, Maestro 🌹🌲🌹

[@gabrieln3613]

I play harmonica 46 years and was full-time pro at 20. I had a Swing, Jazz, Blues (Chicago & Jump Blues) band for 10 years (rhythm section, piano, horns, female vocals, etc.). We had a veteran pro guitar player whose background was Rock and had played with such people as Sammy Hagar, a tour with Rose Royce (workin' at the car wash) hired by Barry Gordy himself and other LA successful rock & "hair bands". He caught and interest in my band and started studying what made swing "Swing" and Jump Blues "jump". We played much for Swing Dance folks too, if the groove and feel is not right they will call you out quickly!.......or not hire you for dances or follow your band and dance at shows. Anyway, he explained it to me exactly as you just did, it's that last offbeat/accent on the end of the triplet just prior to the downbeat that gives the groove that "lift". I am sure we have all heard two bands play the same tune, one is swinging hard and the other is "dying on the vine". This all helped me since I came originally from Bluegrass.....high speed but heavy on the downbeat! Great video, thank you!

[@bradleyconrad678]

We always called this a “cut shuffle” especially when the snare is doing it as well.

[@bora.celiker]

Nice rhythm... Small theory mistake around 02:58 mark though... The G6 voicing doesn't have the 5th as the top (lead) note, it has the root of the chord (G) doubled instead... So the correct way to spell or name the degrees employed would be Root (1) 3rd 6th Root (1), not 1-3-6-5 as described around this time mark..

[@nomorebushz]

I caught that right away too. Oboist/guitarist.

[@szirmaiimre3461]

Cool. And what shows that it's hard to do it properly is that the end demonstration was a bit shaky... :)

[@mrmonster3434]

Isn't that just a triplet swing?

[@chrismutlow1]

I’d like to demonstrate how I like to hear myself talking and maybe a little bit bit of teaching in between

[@raycampbell8814]

Eye opening

[@williamsterling9538]

Like reggae blues

[@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549]

Yes, reggae (as well as most 20th century music) is a blues derivative

[@pmvoice88]

I believe it's also called a backward shuffle.

[@csnide6702]

This is how we pick a drummer... One that can count to four .... !

[@earthlingjohn]

The Beatles "She's a Woman"

[@jossandman]

Almost reggae!

[@caryd67]

You’re sitting right on top of the groove, lay back a little bit 😉

[@dezionlion]

Jammin I wanna jam it wichu

[@NoWayOut55]

My Buds and I always referred to it as Walking Blues.

[@sabtahi13]

ummm, "backbeat"?

[@imannonymous7707]

Ok who am i to contradict berklee. Convinced me i get it

[@lincthomas7178]

NOT a triplet if theres only 2 strums??

[@AtullyaTomer]

I am lyrics writer. Lalit tomar

[@r.k.2000]

That slide riff you did at the intro is straight out of Poco's "Angel" off their "7" album. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYa5qp1voLuKjLs

[@sambac2053]

1 and a , 2 and a .. is not the way to cant triplets

[@goffdroid]

It's the next natural pattern. Da da da. Repeated infinitely

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Sure but why does it have that name? That seems like a strange bit of information missing, especially for a video from a college of music.

[@Jowls2024]

?reggae?

[@wakajumba]

isn’t this reggae?

[@gminor6288]

No. The drums, bass, and chord progessions are all different. Only similarity being upbeat strokes, which were a thing in blues and other music before reggae was invented. People forget how young reggae is as a genre.

[@nigelnix1]

I won't forget Humpty Dumpty.

[@inverted311]

Sounds like a 311 song!

[@OldBiker]

Ska basically

[@davidbaise5137]

Sounds like “In the Mood”

[@NOBBY98]

Ska.

[@superancientmariner1394]

all that to describe off beat.

[@Bearbute0111]

Wow Marty! You've aged ! You look better though with a couple pound less XD

[@NOBBY98]

What a load of old waffle to basically how to tell how to play Ska.

[@rickyjoeshippyful]

Those upstrokes are driving me crazy, seems completely wrong technically.I know in reggae it definitely matters and that is NOT how you do it.

[@FeralWorker]

that demo was not convincing. I appreciate the value of having the facility but it didn't sound good.

[@ME-vk4nu]

just another listen to me talk and show me nothing guitar tutorial

[@xylogloss5905]

Too much bla-bla !

[@michiroom1526]

Playing music, dancing riding fast on motorcylcle....getting much better when you don't think about watcha doin'. First step: learn the f..... technique.

[@duaneulman9915]

Thank you