Birthdays, wherever they fall on the calendar, tend to come with some baggage. “People get birthday blues for a variety of reasons,” explains clinical psychologist Carla Marie Manly, who hosts the ...

A big part of blues is playing over a “shuffle” groove – a triplet-driven swing-eighths feel with a backbeat (accents on beats 2 and 4) – at various tempos. There are many great shuffle-based tunes.

The shuffle is a popular rhythmic feel used in various styles of music, especially blues. I play a lot of blues-based music in my live sets, and a fair amount of those tunes feature a shuffle feel, ...