Meanings
plural Purdie shuffles
- entertainmentA style of rhythm in popular music incorporating precise half note, backbeats, and grooves.
The Purdie shuffles below use diddles with ghost notes.
2022 December 29, Max Freeman, The Big Drum Book: Applications of Rhythm & Groove for Drum Set, Max Freeman Music, →ISBN, page 1551 more example
Thirty-five or forty years later, every drummer in the world has to learn the Purdie shuffle.
2024 April 11, Menzie Pittman, “23: Bernard Purdie”, in The New Musician: The Art of Entrepreneurship in Today's Music Business, →ISBN, page 359Synonyms: ghost note shuffle
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA style of rhythm in popular music incorporating precise half note, backbeats, and grooves.
Origin
Named after jazz and R&B drummer Bernard Purdie.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Purdie shuffle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Purdie%20shuffle
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