FADrumset Reggae
FADrumset Reggae
FADrumset Reggae
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Reggae is usually played with a swing feel (or somewhere between straight and swung). Some of the characteristics of the style are the empty beat one (known as a one drop reggae), a heavy bass drum/snare cross-stick on count 3 and
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the 2 & 4 guitar skanks (dampened scratch chords). The rst two reggae grooves start with fundamental one-drop patterns, and 3 & 4 are versions of a steppers groove (with the four-on-the-oor bass drum).
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This tune ips the usual verse/chorus to chorus/verse plus includes a phrase extension as kind of a tag.
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Play 12
chorus
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2 more
verse
1.
Play 16
(extension)
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stepper
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