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Slow Blues Backbeat (for St. James Infirmary)

for the traditional tune (public domain) · groove: 66music original · Five times through eight bars of slow blues: heavy 2 and 4, ride on the quarters, kick on 1 and the and-of-3. Played STRAIGHT, not shuffled — the sixteenth grid cannot express triplets, so the swing that normally defines a slow blues is not here. It pairs with the St. James bass line in the bass room. 66music original.

Also playable on bass — open the song page