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| 2136.1 | | WELCLU::GREENB | What's the hubbub, bub? | Thu Mar 07 1991 09:11 | 6 |
| >> How do you get that "scratchy" reggae guitar sound.
Cheap guitar, no bottom end on your amp, play exclusively on upstrokes
rather than down, use plenty of damping.
Bob "Chugga" Green
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| 2136.2 | Everything's four-four | MEMCL1::KELLYJ | Tone droid | Thu Mar 14 1991 16:11 | 39 |
| Gotta slightly disagree with .1: The scratch guitar player in a reggae
band plays a variety of rhythms, depending on the style of reggae
being played. Here's a couple:
Rocksteady/bluebeat - this is old reggae...early 70's vintage. Kinda slow.
The scratch player usually plays two eighth notes,
a down stroke followed by an upstroke, on beats two
and four. Lemme try and tab it:
1 2 3 4 (quarter notes)
rest down up rest down up
(eighths) (eights)
Verbally, you could try saying, "Oooh cha cha,
oooh cha cha" to get the feel.
A good example is 'Lively Up Yourself' by Bob
Marley and the Wailers.
Ska - More modern and usually played at a quick tempo. This is is where
.1 is correct: Play the offbeats only, but you don't have to play
upstrokes:
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and
rest rest rest rest
hit hit hit hit
Verbally: Ooh cha ooh cha ooh cha ooh cha
When played correctly, the guitar should sound like you're playing
a polka! A good example is Bob, again: 'Will You Be Loved?'
Level vibes, mon!
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| 2136.3 | You kind of half-fret the chords! | CAVLRY::BUCK | April is Coaster Mania month!!! | Thu Mar 14 1991 16:26 | 2 |
| As an addendum to .1, tghe damping comes from the LEFT hand, NOT the
right!
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| 2136.4 | James Nolan:==Godfather of funky guitar | MEMCL1::KELLYJ | Tone droid | Thu Mar 14 1991 17:00 | 3 |
| Re .1: Oh yeah, funk: Get any James Brown record. Check out James Nolan,
the guitar player. He plays soem incredibly funky stuff that has that
sixteenth note pulse underneath it.
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| 2136.5 | | BTOVT::BAGDY_M | Life's too short for bad TONE | Mon Mar 18 1991 06:39 | 5 |
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To get that feel, listen to `Fools In Love' by Jackson
Browne. That's a (somewhat) reggae tune.
Matt
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| 2136.6 | | WASTED::tomg | Bassists: Stand up for your Sonic Rights! | Mon Mar 18 1991 07:52 | 8 |
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re: . -1
That's Joe Jackson, not Jackson Browne!!
Cool tune, BTW.
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| 2136.7 | | BTOVT::BAGDY_M | Life's too short for bad TONE | Tue Mar 19 1991 07:24 | 5 |
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Whoops. . .that's what I meant to say, but my fingers must
have been in another mode. :^)
Matt
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| 2136.8 | go straight to the source and ask the horse | WHELIN::OMALLEY | Homey Cheese Whiz Kid | Tue Mar 19 1991 09:16 | 10 |
| No offense guys, but going to Joe Jackson records to learn reggae
is like going to Led Zeppelin to learn the blues. Not that Joe and
Led aren't good, but they're (at least) one step removed from the
source.
Listen to Sly and Robbie and BMW (Bob Marley and the Wailers) or
Wilson Pickett, Booker T and the MG's, to get the 'rill thang'.
(Not meant to be an exhaustive list.)
Peter
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| 2136.9 | | WELCLU::GREENB | Mayday! Mayday! Flagship is sinking!!!!!!! | Wed Mar 20 1991 05:33 | 5 |
| Cheers, .2, for all that. As you may have guessed, my reply (.1) was
only semi-serious, and relates only to one type of reggae guitar
playing, i.e. the faster ska style.
Bob
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| 2136.10 | | VERGA::CLARK | | Fri Nov 01 1991 20:09 | 3 |
| FWIW, this month's Musician mag has a feature on "guitarists of P-Funk".
(Tune in next month for "guitarists of the Big Ten"...)
Parliament & Funkadelic have had a few good ones. J
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