Chords for The Rosanna Half Time Shuffle by Jeff Porcaro

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_ All right next I'd like to get into the halftime shuffle groove.
This groove is
one of my favorites, _ some of my favorite drummers.
I love hearing them play this
kind of groove.
_ _ _ _ _ I used the halftime shuffle groove on the tune Rosanna, the
total cut.
_ I've been asked about that beat a lot so I'd like to try to explain
that beat the best of my ability right now, get it clear.
_ I stole that beat from
listening to two records.
One was Home at Last _ and Babylon Sisters which is
Bernard Purdy, Steely Dan Records.
_ Another is the John Bonham on Fool in the
Rain, Led Zeppelin tune.
_ _ The Bernard Purdy thing, I like to call it the Bernard
Purdy halftime shuffle, is basically this. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ The John Bonham beat that I copied from
Fool in the Rain was something like this.
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_ _ _ _ Putting those two beats together I came
up with my own little kind of hybrid. _
For Rosanna _ I added _ the Bo Diddley figure.
It's a shuffle Bo Diddley figure, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ basically.
_ And putting them together this
is what it came up with. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ All right let me break this beat down for you.
On the
hi-hat I'm playing the first and last note of the triplet on each beat. _
With
the left hand I'm gonna ghost the second note of each triplet on each beat,
something like this. _ _ _
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Now I'm gonna add the backbeat on the third beat on the snare drum and I'm
gonna ghost _ the second note of the third triplet, _ something like this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Now I'm gonna add the Bo Diddley shuffle bass drum figure. _ _
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And all together it
should be something like this. _ _
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That's the basic groove.
Now you can do things like play quarter notes on the
hi-hat like Bernard do to get a different kind of lope out of it and
that would sound like this. _
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_ _ Okay now I'm gonna play a little bit of this groove
with the band so that you can play along. _ _ _ _
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