Jenny’s DrumSteps

New Orleans Funk · hard · 92 BPM

New Orleans Second-Line Funk Drum Beat

The syncopated, parade-rooted funk of the Meters and second-line drumming, with a broken kick pattern and snare accents that dance off the downbeats. The displaced snare hits and bouncing sixteenths give it that rolling, off-kilter strut you can't sit still to.

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What this teaches

Internalizing syncopation and snare displacement off the straight backbeat to play the second-line shuffle feel.

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