Complete 12/8 Purdie shuffle drum loops toolkit Beats, fills and percussion – a HUGE pack of 227 separate 12/8 drum loops across 4 tempos Modern-sounding drums – Warm, resonant tones with a snappy snare… ----- The 12/8 Shuffle Grooves We thought long and hard about which 12/8 drum loops would be most versatile and useful for different styles of music. Then we studied the great 12/8 shuffle grooves played on famous recordings and selected a broad range of tempos. Whilst recording the grooves across the range of tempos, we then added extra, more tempo-specific grooves. 105BPM – Seriously laid back, these are 12/8 drum loops in a ballad tempo range. Or a funky 6/8 blues groove maybe? 120BPM – Getting pretty funky now, we’re in the Purdie Shuffle zone – Steely Dan’s “Bablyon Sisters” hangs around this kind of tempo. Some open flowing fills are nice at this speed too. 130BPM – This is John Bonham territory with Led Zep’s “Fool in the Rain”. Still funky, but much more driving and played with more attack. Again, fills and percussion make a great accompaniment at this tempo. 172BPM – The Purdie Shuffle has no business being played at this tempo – unless it’s 1982 and your name is Jeff Porcaro. His classic “Rossanna” 12/8 shuffle grooves are in here plus some variations. Fill loops didn’t make much sense at this crazy tempo so we skipped those, but there are a set of percussion loops that work nicely. ---