Learn how to play a Reggae rhythm and lead on guitar. Reggae guitar lesson - EP264

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  • Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
  • In this weeks' guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a reggae rhythm (in multiple parts) as well as a rhythmic lead on guitar.
    If you'd like to view the Part 2 video for this reggae guitar lesson, as well as the tablature and the MP3 jam tracks, visit www.activemelo...

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  • @zozikfreeman9403
    @zozikfreeman9403 10 місяців тому +1

    Thank you so much, Brian. Always a great pleasure to watch your videos. Liking the t shirt, you're too cool 💙

  • @rpe1
    @rpe1 6 років тому +5

    Brian, I've been a premium member for some time now and just wanted you to know that I've researched tons of on-line lessons and I've found yours most suited to what I want to learn. I'm 65 years old and have been playing guitar with various degrees of success for 50 years. I play strickly for my own pleasure and for my wife of 45 years. Your selection of lessons is usually spot on. Sorry for the protracted comment, just wanted you to know I appreciate you and your talent. A fingerstyle arrangement of "Brother in Arms" would be the capstone of my learning.

    • @activemelody
      @activemelody  6 років тому +1

      rpe1 thanks man :) I’m with you on Brothers In Arms. One of my all-time favorite songs

  • @logansweeney6268
    @logansweeney6268 6 років тому +3

    First reggae guitar lesson I actually found helpful!

  • @ReubenLGarcia
    @ReubenLGarcia Рік тому

    You've definitely helped out a lot just in the short time I've discovered you, I will be creating an account for Active Melody! Thank you !

  • @jamesfield8764
    @jamesfield8764 6 років тому

    You are very good. I learn everything from looking at your lessons Thanks

  • @simonbourel7111
    @simonbourel7111 3 роки тому

    Love that rhythm!! Great lesson thanks 😀

  • @glrv8646
    @glrv8646 4 роки тому

    Very nice class!!!

  • @shannonandthereunion
    @shannonandthereunion 9 місяців тому

    This is great.

  • @joelwaetford1668
    @joelwaetford1668 2 роки тому +1

    Peter Tosh has some timeless solos in Bob Marley's Babylon by bus album... Not to mention his great cover of Johnny b good. Would be awesome to have a lesson on Peter Tosh

    • @juniordamatah
      @juniordamatah Рік тому

      Peter Tosh left The Wailers in 74, he didn't participate in any of the band's albums after that period. The guitarists who succeeded him were Junior Marvin and Al Anderson most of the time (China Smith and Donald Kinsey had a brief participation in the recording and touring of the album Rastaman Vibration)

  • @anthonyp1548
    @anthonyp1548 4 роки тому

    That sounds dope!!

  • @usuariodesconocido566
    @usuariodesconocido566 6 років тому +1

    Love the new background just subscribed

  • @justinpaquette224
    @justinpaquette224 4 роки тому +1

    The way I feel and count reggae is in cut time which puts the chops on the 2 and 4. I feel 1 an (2) an 3 an (4) an. If counting the way you said to, I would feel the 16ths 1 ee (an) uh 2 ee (an) uh 3 ee (an) uh 4 ee (an) uh. I would keep my hand moving to that subdivision, to feel the organ bubble and the and high hat groove. Reggae is simple in some ways but in other ways it is not. It is very important to really groove, an to groove you need to get the right swing ratio

    • @smelltheglove2038
      @smelltheglove2038 2 роки тому

      It helps me to add a sort of bass line on the low E on the 1-3 count if the song allows.

  • @damianlentino4430
    @damianlentino4430 6 років тому

    Very good!!!

  • @EpiLover
    @EpiLover 6 місяців тому

    I'm wondering where to set the tone knob on the guitar itself for general reggae guitar. There are plenty of places to get amp setting suggestions, but I can't find guitar tone settings. Any suggestions?

  • @Google野郎
    @Google野郎 Рік тому

    thanks!

  • @IBlack04
    @IBlack04 5 років тому +2

    Yo, you actually taught this bald, white, Scottish guy how to play and love Reggae 0_o

  • @mmccartney6579
    @mmccartney6579 6 років тому +3

    Great lesson, Brian! Reminds me somewhat of, "Land down Under" by Men At Work. :)

  • @juniordamatah
    @juniordamatah Рік тому

    real reggae guitarists rarely use seventh chords on the Skank guitar, except at the end of beats to mark the cycle. Rhythm guitar is based on natural chord lashes.

  • @erikvonerik
    @erikvonerik 3 роки тому

    How did you get that great quack effect ? What are you using ?

  • @snogglemonkey
    @snogglemonkey 5 років тому

    Good tutorial -Personally I prefer to hit the off-beats using up strokes (reggae, ska or two tone) - for a sharper sound - especially once the tempo increases -

    • @smelltheglove2038
      @smelltheglove2038 2 роки тому

      The down stroke is reggae, upstroke is ska. So you aren’t actually playing reggae. I know it’s nit-picking, but it’s an important distinction between the two genres.

    • @drewandjeffers5695
      @drewandjeffers5695 2 роки тому

      ​@@smelltheglove2038 the upstroke is not only used for ska, it's also used for calypso, and Rocksteady. You're on the right track about reggae and other music genre in the West Indies.

  • @nesta8518
    @nesta8518 3 роки тому +1

    Reggae, like the blues, has so much beneath the surface that make it a lot harder to play well than it sounds. Might be the soul……

  • @josephhylton5334
    @josephhylton5334 2 роки тому

    Having a hard time getting the bar finger to create the tone

  • @Caveirinha030
    @Caveirinha030 6 років тому

    oh yeah!

  • @markusgarvey
    @markusgarvey 4 роки тому

    Less is more. Don't let your string ring out, I use my forearm to mute, but you can just lift up, and don't add embellishments unless it part of the songs. Always, less is more.

  • @АндрейНевоград
    @АндрейНевоград 6 років тому +1

    Сыграй рэгги ,ощути себя Боббом Марли . Could You Be Loved !

  • @cordeflers3065
    @cordeflers3065 6 років тому

    wauw!

  • @dollabills6086
    @dollabills6086 Рік тому

    I just wish you talked less, youre such a badass player.

  • @michworks
    @michworks 6 років тому

    Do you teach the entire lead in this video as a premium member?

  • @neilgroves3592
    @neilgroves3592 6 років тому +1

    skip to 3:10 to avoid the usual mindless gum banging from this guy and start the lesson.

    • @neilgroves3592
      @neilgroves3592 6 років тому +1

      @Elon Musk’s Spliff i would just have preferred not to have wasted 3 minutes of my life ...... I'd rather play guitar.

    • @JackMontesanoMusic
      @JackMontesanoMusic 2 роки тому

      @@neilgroves3592 this guy

  • @Bhh-j2s
    @Bhh-j2s 6 років тому

    Irie irie

  • @saltyshadow3806
    @saltyshadow3806 6 років тому +5

    Black background!!!! Pleeeeeaaasee

    • @chezchezchezchez
      @chezchezchezchez 6 років тому +1

      why?

    • @oskarileikos
      @oskarileikos 6 років тому

      This is much better

    • @xsxsux
      @xsxsux 6 років тому

      I m used to seeing the black background that lasted for years.

  • @denorvalhornesby980
    @denorvalhornesby980 3 роки тому

    Raggia

  • @tonyharley5230
    @tonyharley5230 6 років тому +1

    Great authentic reggae but the staccato chords are a little too much overdriven.

  • @neilgroves3592
    @neilgroves3592 6 років тому

    great lesson but skip to 3:20 to avoid the mindless waffle which is usual for this guy.

  • @ulrichbergmann1347
    @ulrichbergmann1347 4 роки тому

    Full Barchords for Raggae? XD Make your homework Noop!

  • @guxyguy7909
    @guxyguy7909 5 років тому

    gibson sg worst reggae guitar in history

    • @activemelody
      @activemelody  5 років тому +4

      Guxy Guy you should argue that with Bob Marley - equipboard.com/pros/bob-marley/1970-gibson-sg-electric-guitar