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Basic Shuffle Patterns

Description: Printer friendly instructions for guitar playing shuffle patterns exercise showing blues rhythm secrets.

[Click to play example in A] [ Click to play example in E]

Open position added 6th shuffle patterns:
e--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------
B--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------
G--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--2-2-4-2--2-2-4-2--
D--------------------||--2-2-4-2--2-2-4-2--||--------------------||--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--
A--2-2-4-2--2-2-4-2--||--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--||--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--||--------------------
E--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--||--------------------||--2-2-4-2--2-2-4-2--||--------------------

...E ................||..A.................||..B.................||..D ................|

Movable added 6th shuffle patterns:
e--------------------||--------------------|
B--------------------||--------------------|
G--------------------||--------------------|
D--------------------||--5-5-6-5--5-5-6-5--|
A--5-5-6-5--5-5-6-5--||--3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3--|
E--3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3--||--------------------|

...6th string root...||..5th string root...|

Common variations (Shown in open position, but all can be equally played in movable forms as well):
e--------------------||--------------------||---------------------
B--------------------||--------------------||---------------------
G--------------------||--------------------||---------------------
D--------------------||--------------------||---------------------
A--2-2-4-2--5-2-4-2--||--2-2-4-2--2-2-2-2--||--2-2-4-2--2-2-2-2---
E--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--||--0-0-0-0--0-0-3-0--||--0-0-0-0--0-0-4-0---

.E(add 6th and b7th).||.E(add 6th and b3rd)||.E(add 6th and 3rd)..

e--------------------||---------------------||
B--------------------||---------------------||
G--------------------||---------------------||
D--------------------||---------------------||
A--2-2-4-2--5-2-2(2)-||--2-2-2(2)-2-2-5-4---||
E--0-0-0-0--0-0-3h4--||--0-0-3h4--0-0-0-0---||

.E(combination)......||E(combination/inverted)

There are many more possible permutations - Experiment!