Reggae guitar lesson. How to play reggae on acoustic guitar. How to play reggae on electric guitar. Basics of reggae rhythm on guitar.\r
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From the Secret Guitar Teacher: \r
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Theres a lot of variety in Reggae, but almost all Reggae tunes have the same basic underlying rhythm and thats what I am going to show you in this lesson.\r
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In Rock music we normally work with 4 beats to the bar .we then add in the half-beats and we accentuate the back beats, main beats 2 and 4 .so we have 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & .\r
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Heres the standard notation for this - notice the little accentuation sign over main beats 2 and 4 in each bar.\r
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To get from Rock to Reggae I need to make two changes. Firstly I syncopate each pair of notes.\r
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The first of each pair of notes now has a little dot after it.this tells you to increase the duration of the note by half as long again. And this is done at the expense of the second note in each pair, which has its duration cut in half; as shown by the little extra beam near the top of the note.\r
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So in rock we might play 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & . .in reggae, instead of playing each pair of notes for an equal duration like this we syncopate them \r
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When strumming chords in Reggae you normally allow the strumming hand to play the main beats on the down stroke and the half beats on the upstroke like this.and notice how I accelerate the hand through the second and fourth beats to accentuate them.\r
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Finally, the Reggae effect is completed by removing the first and third beats alltogether.\r
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If you are playing in a band, the bass player will normally look after these, so you play against the bass.\r
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But, playing guitar on your own, you may find it best to replace these, either with a single bass note like this .or better still a muted down stroke like this . Notice how each pair of notes is played using the bass strings and treble strings alternately \r
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This idea is prevalent in almost all Reggae based tunes, in one form or another, and used at various speeds and with various bits of the pattern muted or sounded, accentuated or softened.\r
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Here are a few classic examples - all from well-known Bob Marley tunes \r
Wait in Vain.One Love .I shot the Sheriff.\r
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Ill put together a printout showing the chords for those songs to go with this video so you can use then to price with.
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From the Secret Guitar Teacher: \r
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Heres the video script:\r
Theres a lot of variety in Reggae, but almost all Reggae tunes have the same basic underlying rhythm and thats what I am going to show you in this lesson.\r
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In Rock music we normally work with 4 beats to the bar .we then add in the half-beats and we accentuate the back beats, main beats 2 and 4 .so we have 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & .\r
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Heres the standard notation for this - notice the little accentuation sign over main beats 2 and 4 in each bar.\r
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To get from Rock to Reggae I need to make two changes. Firstly I syncopate each pair of notes.\r
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The first of each pair of notes now has a little dot after it.this tells you to increase the duration of the note by half as long again. And this is done at the expense of the second note in each pair, which has its duration cut in half; as shown by the little extra beam near the top of the note.\r
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So in rock we might play 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & . .in reggae, instead of playing each pair of notes for an equal duration like this we syncopate them \r
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When strumming chords in Reggae you normally allow the strumming hand to play the main beats on the down stroke and the half beats on the upstroke like this.and notice how I accelerate the hand through the second and fourth beats to accentuate them.\r
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Finally, the Reggae effect is completed by removing the first and third beats alltogether.\r
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If you are playing in a band, the bass player will normally look after these, so you play against the bass.\r
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But, playing guitar on your own, you may find it best to replace these, either with a single bass note like this .or better still a muted down stroke like this . Notice how each pair of notes is played using the bass strings and treble strings alternately \r
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This idea is prevalent in almost all Reggae based tunes, in one form or another, and used at various speeds and with various bits of the pattern muted or sounded, accentuated or softened.\r
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Here are a few classic examples - all from well-known Bob Marley tunes \r
Wait in Vain.One Love .I shot the Sheriff.\r
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Ill put together a printout showing the chords for those songs to go with this video so you can use then to price with.
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