Rosanna Drums tab video
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Make your own Rosanna tab video, freeNo editing. No card. 10 minutes free.- Instrument
- Drums
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Tuning
- —
- Tempo
- 82 BPM
About this riff
The 'Rosanna shuffle' is a half-time shuffle built on a triplet subdivision, with the hi-hat playing the first and third notes of each triplet, a strong backbeat on beat 3, and a web of quiet ghost notes on the snare that give the groove its swing and pocket. The real challenge isn't the notes but the touch: balancing accented backbeats against barely-audible ghost notes while keeping rock-steady time makes it one of the hardest grooves to make feel effortless. Learning it trains dynamic control, triplet independence, and feel more than raw speed.
Did you know?
Jeff Porcaro built the groove by fusing three sources: Bernard Purdie's shuffle, John Bonham's shuffle on Led Zeppelin's 'Fool in the Rain,' and the Bo Diddley beat, layered with ghost notes to create the distinctive half-time feel. Porcaro himself openly credited these influences, and the pattern became so iconic it's now simply called the 'Rosanna shuffle' in drumming circles.
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