Bob Marley Reggae Guitar Tips - Playing style, guitar and amp
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- Опубліковано 16 лют 2016
- Bob Marley reggae guitar tips and secrets. His amps, guitars, chords and strumming techniques.
In the this guitar lesson on bob Marley playing style I break down his strumming technique. He strummed in a circular fashion somethings which means that not all the strings are played with the same amount of intensity.
He also used very big fat reggae guitar bar chords and he wrapped his hands around the guitar which can be seen in the video.
He played a fender at one point in his career and you can see him playing it on Stir It Up. However, he graduated to the Gibson Les Paul which was modified for him later on.
He generally used whatever amp was on stage, be it Marhall, Roland or Fender and they were all valve apart from the Roland JC 120 of course.
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Hi Man. I like your analysis of BoB Marley's guitar style. I would like to add something.When you are talking about the circular movement to obtain this "crunchy" sound of the skank, you're very right but I noticed something else about Bob. As a great fan, I have exactly the same guitar : Gibson LP special with P90 and I'am playing on a Fender Twin reverb amp to make sure it sounds roots.And it work very well!!! The thing that makes me really sounds like Bob Marley is my guitar pick (strings medium or light). I see on the video that you play your so beautiful guitar with a jazz pick which looks pretty hard and I see you hold this pick something around two-thirds between yours fingers and one third to hit the strings.If you look at some Bob Marley's pictures carefully, you will notice that he holds his pick one third between the fingers and two-thirds to hit the strings(which is not conventional ).I made a lot of test with different picks, and to me, the good one to are "Dunlop USA Nylon 60 mm to 73mm" which are soft enough not to break the strings but hard enough to amplify the crunch and allowing to create this extra"friction/rubbing sound" so characteristic of Bob Marley .So now, using this pick, with the circular move you already identified, making sure you penetrate the strings with the two-thirds of the pick, you will quickly feel how to obtain this "crunchy skunk" that we can listening to in "Real Situation" , "We and them" , "coming in from the cold" .And now we sound (almost)like the Master. Iries.
I think i'm having an acid flash back watching this.
lol same
its just kicked in
Haha me too! The cameraman must be on a waterbed or something.
Maybe the camera did smoke some ganja
Alex Harter ... Me too...
Straight forward but brilliant instruction. Really enjoyed this and learnt a lot about a living legend. Thanks for posting.
Great to see real reggae being taught on UA-cam. Many thanks.
Thank you! Very helpful, as I am new to playing Reggae.
Very good lesson! I'm glad there are still people who can feel music and are also good teachers! God bless you and keep on rocking!
good info. i have observed these things aswell!
You are very good. Thanks for sharing!
Great lesson. I'm just starting with reggae
I'm assuming that Marley also reduced the brightness with the tone knob on his rhythm guitar playing. Mainly on his stuff after the Burning album
Just now seeing this video. Excellent job! Good information.
Dude, your lesson are unique and very helpful...... Appreciated.
Excellent tutorial thanks.
thats was good dude ! greatings von Hungary
Fantastic sound.
Good bit of info. Thanks.
Great information, thumbs up channel! Cheers from Puerto Rico.
Very cool- thank you !
i love this
Thanks my friend, that was helpful 👍🏻
Very cool video I really like how you explained this
Great informational video much respect+ can you give any tips on amp effects and/or pedals used for reggae sound?
Great video, thank you for posting. I used to find Marley's chord shapes bewildering, as they definitely aren't your orthodox ways of playing a standard A, D, E, etc. They're a bit hard to pull off on my guitar given the high action and my inexperience. The main problem for me is eliminating excess string noise - I think mainly from the two top strings that are supposed to be muted.
Thank you very much!
Greetings! If I may offer... For a number of years, I have chosen to play "Flatwound" strings of various gauges from very light to very heavy depending on the instrument and the desired tone from the instrument and the voice of it's pickups... From a long historical perspective and in search of the "golden tone", I have proven that this is the best way to achieve that fluid sound of moving through chord progressions with nothing but the purest sound of the guitar "minus" the subsequent squeaks and squeals of popular "Roundwound" guitar strings... I could go on a bit further in sharing my experience in this matter but the best teacher indeed is your own personal trial... Overstand that there is a "break in" period for these strings, determined by usage, that will result in a very finely polished surface...polished by your hand... In many of the close up fotos I have seen of Bob Marely's "Ol Faithful" Les Paul guitar, I observed that it was fitted with Flatwounds with a wound G string... Thanks for reading my this response...I hope it is worthy of consideration... Bless!
I greatly appreciate the advice, thank you!
nice video can you tell more about reggae chords i see you play the am and gm chords easyer how can i play the a and g major chords easyeir
Great review.
Looks easy ... but easy is more often difficult. Nice video!
Same to you!
Thank you!
Do you know how to get the tone in Ziggi Recado song Pretender?
Nice one 👍
What is this song you play at the end ?
What about some Lyn Taite reggae guitar technique’s?
What Amp are you using? and what are the settings please :)
how you like that ibanez?
Nice useful information for them beginner big op mahn
Blessings! Glad you like it!
nice very good could you show some acoustic reggae
Say hi from Venezuela! that was a very nice video. Do you know what pedals did Bob or his guitarrists used? I think thy used some compressor but can't figure it out which?
I don’t know what compressors they used. But I think Bob played through a clean amp. The other guitarist used a combination of overdrive, delay, chorus, phaser and wah. Hope that helped.
Thank for the insight on how the great man played :)
Great video. thanks. What Ibanez Model are you playing in the video? Nice tone!
AS 153
JAH BLESS BROTHER,
Hey I have the exact same guitar!
What is the guitar?
Hae, is there a difference between a lead guitar and a rythm guitar, the way they are made, or they are both made the same way?
Not really! Any guitar can play rhythm or lead! However, some players prefer a lead focus, while others prefer rhythm.
From watching many of his clips, I think that Bob held his plectrum with 3 fingers.
Brother, can you give me a tip on Guitar strings and the different gauges?
Wow. That's really insightful. Thank you for this. I think I will play around/experiment a bit.
What Ibanez model is that?
Ibanez AS153 sunburst
I think your camera is stoned!! Great video
Lol not really!
for real those are all great amps lol
got that bill cosby effect goin on
How can you hear Bob's playing on stage or in studio ??? Keyboards are always playing louder !!
In some of his songs (also a minority of live shows) it's easier to recognize rythm guitar from the keyboards. For example Pimpers Paradise and Positive Vibration. Bob plays a quick 'upstroke' after the downstroke which makes it stand out more(I hope I explained it correctly, I'm just a beginner)
In the mix in those days the guitar was mixed on the same channel as the keys often a fender Rhodes electric piano due to limited channels available on the mixing desk and tape. Even when recording in million dollar studios in London it was crucial for the Roots Reggae sound to continue using the technique.
Also listen to albums like catch a fire and burnin. You can really hear his rhythm guitar
Join a band mr Newman
never saw Bob with a hollow body guitar,,,,nice vid tho mi breeders
Rice an Peas!
He also played super TIGHT and slightly MUTED but SCRATCHY
whoa weird camera
Guitar is Great feels my psychedelic ptsd is triggered
massive delay before sound comes out of your amp!
Thanks for letting me know.
Bob Marley was good but his band was the real key players to his career
Sir, Bob Marley was a part of a band. Learn about what Bob was good at AND what he was NOT good at. The guitar playing of Bob Marley was not a major factor in his music for he was NOT a great guitar player. I repeat Bob Marley was NOT a great guitar player. The good/great guitar pieces(solos etc) that you hear in the songs of Bob Marley was done by several lead quitarists including, Ernie Ranglin, Earl 'China' Smith, Al Anderson, Junior Marvin among others. When you listen to the song 'It Hurts To Be Alone" the entire guitar solo was done by Ernie Ranglin.
He never really said anything about the lead parts. He was specifically commenting on Bob’s rhythm playing which is a huge part of reggae ☺️