 He believed in playing something different for every chorus of every tune.Most of his contemporaries played a short buzz or press roll on the backbeats (the 2nd and 4th beats), but Dodds played a long roll that lasted till the following beat, which created a smoother time feel that he later developed into the jazz ride pattern most commonly used ever since.Dodds was most well known, however, for what he called his "shimmy beat", which he first used in 1918 at Jack Sheehan's in New Orleans.