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In this lesson I’ll show you how to play a typical reggae style rhythm guitar part. The most important part of this lesson isn’t necessarily learning to play reggae, but it’s the left hand muting effect that you’ll learn, because that be used in all style of playing from blues to jazz. In the beginning you’ll want to be sure to practice getting the rhythm down slowly and then over time you’ll be able to work up to playing with the jam track. This lesson is intended for beginners – advanced and can be played on either electric or acoustic guitar. I hope you have as much fun learning this as I did creating it!
Reggae Rhythm Guitar Lesson
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Another great lesson. I am learning so much from your lessons, thank you.
Thanks exploit
The only clear explanation on the whole web about reggae rhythm! What about funk?
To what song for example could we apply this rhythm?
It can be a way to practice having fun and it would be useful.
very nice reggae lessons can you show how to improvise over reggae
Thank you Brian, I just signed up tonight and this is my first video (it looks and sounds very good). I love the access to the backing track and the tab. Great job.
Learning more and more each day thanks to those lessons, thank you so much dude!
I had a dream last night that you followed this up with Eric Clapton’s version of “I shot the sheriff”. Do you make dreams come true?
I love the stuff you are doing.
CAN NOT GET OVER HOW EASY YOU MAKE THESE LESSIONS .
THANKS AGAIN JIM.
wow just found this page outstanding lessons always struggled with reggae
Great stuff Brian.
Thanks, Great lessons- but I’m having trouble downloading tab. I had no problems with soundtracks, but tab won’t down load. Any thoughts?
Brian, I loved the lessons, I wonder if you are tedo time MESSAGES read your public charge.
Thankful already …. Wagner (Brazil)
Hi Brian, let me say right away that I love your playing and signed on to learn some more Blues stuff, and I have learned very much from you in that field. But, I have to say that this “Reggae” style playing that you are perpetuating is a very “homogenized” style of playing made popular by the likes of Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin et al, I would challenge you to tell me of one known “Reggae” band to use such a rhythm! I really don’t want to be negative at all, but being a Reggae musician myself, and having played Reggae since 1977 in various bands and also having grown up with Reggae almost my whole life I have to say this Reggae is Reggae-ish, it’s all backwards and not at all based on the “One drop” so popular with Reggae artists. In fact what you are trying to achieve with this single guitar rhythm is in fact several parts rolled into one. Reggae consists of (for me anyway) the chop (a short sharp single chop on a chord and the same on a piano)- the scratch, a double chop dampened so it is just a rhythm, the shuffle, played on an organ with a kind of “ooh choo ooh” (don’t know quite how to explain it really ;-)) plus the “one drop” drums and the of-beat bass and other embellishments which all come together to form the “lilting” rhythm so loved by Reggae aficionados, and cannot be achieved by a single guitar part such as you are trying to do. as I said earlier, I think you are a fantastic blues man and a very good teacher, but your Reggae rhythms are a little off. Thanks for everything that I have learned from you once again and keep up the good work :-)
Hi again, I have uploaded a track to sound cloud using some of your techniques and “boxes” for blues guitar, feel free to criticize all you like :-)
https://soundcloud.com/toxteth2014/bliss
Toxteth, sound great. I listened to the whole thing :) I could hear the blues influence for sure. Nice 🙂
Thanks Brian, I have been a Reggae rhythm guitarist for many years but could never play much lead, now after listening to some of your lessons I can begin to combine the Blues with Reggae, something I have thought about for many years. Thanks again Brian for the lessons, I will continue to experiment :-)
That’s very nice sounding toxteth. I’m a relative newbie to guitar but trying to learn as much as I can, finding that some stuff that sounds easy is ANYTHING but. Anyhow, love all this stuff. I’m gonna spend time learning best I can all the rhythm lessons before lead……..seems reasonable as I eventually want to lay down my own backing using a looper (eventually).