Reggae patterns

[zaragemca]

Also taking in to account what style of Reggae is being played.

[JerryA]

Steel Pulse uses a lot of bongos in their music, my favorite song w/ bongos in it is "Man no sober"

I've seen a lot of live bands that have bongo players in them, and they play similar to the bongos in that song.

[yoni]

Zaragemca makes an important point about what style of reggae is being played... nowadays in the Caribbean the styles of Marley, Burning Spear, Steel Pulse, etc. are long gone and hardly even listened to. The current reggae is much faster, hip-hop-jungle ragamuffin style, the basic beats often sounding like Mid Eastern "Malfouf", West African "Funga" Caribbean "Soca" and so on (many names for this similar rhythm played in many areas world-wide)

Bom..bom..bom.bom..bom..bom.bom..bom..bom.bom//

And that's just ONE type of new reggae, it's endless and new styles are being created all the time.

The traditional "heartbeat" reggae rhythms are long since pase' in the Caribbean, that's for sure. The rest of the world will catch up after a while, I guess.

Of the older styles, I like Steel Pulse, Aswad, Maddo (who I used to play with), some others and of course Brother Bob...

All the best,
Yoni

[akdom]

I suggest to improvise on the base of a nyabinghy. Skip the bass part and just play the rest. Very fun and effective.

Have fun

Big B

[Salseroberlinense]

I thought it had been here that I was pointed to Bongo Herman but maybe I was wrong. He played lots of bongo in reggae and was often in the center of the songs with his instrument. Don't know if he's still playing.
In his book on reggae drumming, Desi Jones does not mention bongos as an instrument often employed, only timbales, cowbell and tambourine. Does anyone know songs where these figure?
I used Percussion Studio to make audio files of the rhythms James M and congastu suggested, could you check if they are right? Your band site is offline, congastu?



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[Tonio]

Hola Salseroberlinense,

do yu realize that you are posting on a 3 year old thread? some of the folks on this thread have not posted in about 3 years.
T

[Salseroberlinense]

So what, reggae is much older and will get much older...
No, thanks for pointing this out. I had noted it as well and thus wrote to the others privately, too. I can only hope that they still use their old email and get it forwarded because emailing directly was disabled.



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