Cold Shot
Stevie Ray Vaughan · 1984
A laid-back blues shuffle for practicing pocket and ghost-note placement.
- Artist
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Year
- 1984
- Genre
- blues
- Drummer
- Chris Layton
- Tempo
- 96 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- shuffle
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
58bpm
Building
76bpm
Target
96bpm
The feel
A shuffle in 4/4 around 96 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Keep the ghost notes a whisper — felt, not heard. They make the groove breathe.
- •Lock the shuffle triplet; the #1 mistake is letting it straighten out as you speed up.
- •Sit just behind the beat and let it breathe; don't chase the click forward.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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Learn it
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