shuffle – First Frets Homeschool Guitar and Ukulele Lessons

It’s time to bolster our rhythmic options, and we can start with a very simple exercise and build it up from there. The possibilities are endless once you get this going!

Finally, let’s learn the standard shuffle blues rhythm, which is based on something called triplets. Triplet based rhythms create a completely different feel from the “straight” rhythms we’ve been playing up to this point.