Hey Billy...not only was this one of the best Reggae beginner tutorials Ive scene...and believe me when I say Ive looked, listened and probably tried about 1000 of them on TH-cam...but I also just checked out what have available on spotify...and its freaking great man !! This was the inspiration I needed today to pick my guitar back up. Wicked thanks for putting out all this amazing content...KEEP IT UP...PEOPLE ARE LISTENING : )
Thanks, Christopher! It means a lot to hear that the video is helpful and that you also checked out my tunes. I haven't posted much recently so thank you for the inspiration to keep going!
@@BillyDeCristofano yeah man, ditto on Christopher Romero's comments. Most reggae music is played on acoustic guitars. With that reggae strumming style, those major and minor chords comes across to my ears like 7th chords and borderline jazz chords. After your lesson I have a better feel for it. What inspired me to come here was the guitar player for Megadeth named Kiko was messing with Dave Mustaine in the studio. He was playing these reggae chords that I thought sounded cool AF. Then Kiko tells Dave, "Good idea huh, for a new song". Dave slowly turns to Kiko and gives Kiko his famous snarky "stare of death". Here's the video title if you're interested: "Dave Mustaine REJECTS Kiko" Thanks for the lesson man!! ..
I removed my middle finger to make that A minor chord. Now that my middle finger is gone, I can't make that A major chord anymore. Did I do something wrong? My girlfriend is mad at me about this on top of can't making A major bar chords anymore.
Good lesson, especially for beginners. But if I can add to it... this is good for acoustic (or electric) but especially acoustic solo playing. When playing reggae in a band you don't want to play all 6 strings, especially not the lower (in pitch) 3 strings. The bass has that covered. Also just play the upbeat or ands (1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and) and maybe mute the downbeats but still strum to add rhythmic effect. Speaking of pitch my only critique is that you said go up from B to A. You are going down in pitch. We always speak of up or down in a pitch sense as it's music we are talking about. So if you go up to the neck from the 5th fret to the 7th fret you are going up a whole step. If you go from the 5th fret of your A string to the 5th fret of your D string you're going up a string, more specifically up a 4th. It sounds like nit picking but this is important to really internalize and think (the long term goal is be able to hear) the intervals or distance between notes and whether they are going up in pitch or down. You shouldn't have to specify pitch up is always up in pitch down is always down. Again good lesson and thank you! 😊
The guitar I’m playing here is an Ibanez Performance Series guitar - it’s a cutaway acoustic electric. Bought it new back in 2002 so it’s had a lot of use since then!
I like reggae chords played through a hard rock, heavy metal distortion pedal. Reggae bands don't do this, run their guitars through high gain distortion pedals and or amps. IMO the reggae band that does this with some serious tunes will blow up as an underground band with some radio play. Just my opinion.
@@BillyDeCristofano Thanks for the recommend, enjoyed it much. I did a search on "311 band - reggae songs" and a mix chain featuring their reggae tunes came up. My favorite is _"Light Years"_ In the songs they're using distortion that I heard so far it sound like light distortion, which is much better sounding than straight clean guitars. If were to record a reggae song I would use a heavier distortion sound. What 311 did from what I heard so far, was blend light distortion with the reggae chords and went into rock progressions with heavier distortion ....which I thought was awesome. I heard some Ziggy Marley stuff about 10 years ago which did the same, only fused it with a house music club sound that I loved. I'm not the biggest fan of straight reggae ...but the fusion or blending of it with rock and other modern forms of music is the best, for my tastes. Thanks again for the video guitar lesson and the 311 recommend. Cheers!!
@@ThisUnderWorldOfDarkness its not real reggae at that point… real roots reggae is very simplistic with the guitar being just for the rhythm. The reason why no band has distorted reggae is because it really doesnt work unfortunately, sublime and 311 were the closest but even then didnt try to hard to distort the reggae sound
It’s tough to jump right into. Start with learning barre chords. Learn an A and Bm barre chord. Then practice a “double skank” strum rhythm while going back and forth between those two chords to start. Hope it helps.
Just like the Blues, people over-complicate it, Reggae is just as humble...bravo my man!!!!
Hey Billy...not only was this one of the best Reggae beginner tutorials Ive scene...and believe me when I say Ive looked, listened and probably tried about 1000 of them on TH-cam...but I also just checked out what have available on spotify...and its freaking great man !! This was the inspiration I needed today to pick my guitar back up. Wicked thanks for putting out all this amazing content...KEEP IT UP...PEOPLE ARE LISTENING : )
Thanks, Christopher! It means a lot to hear that the video is helpful and that you also checked out my tunes. I haven't posted much recently so thank you for the inspiration to keep going!
@@BillyDeCristofano yeah man, ditto on Christopher Romero's comments. Most reggae music is played on acoustic guitars. With that reggae strumming style, those major and minor chords comes across to my ears like 7th chords and borderline jazz chords. After your lesson I have a better feel for it.
What inspired me to come here was the guitar player for Megadeth named Kiko was messing with Dave Mustaine in the studio. He was playing these reggae chords that I thought sounded cool AF. Then Kiko tells Dave, "Good idea huh, for a new song".
Dave slowly turns to Kiko and gives Kiko his famous snarky "stare of death".
Here's the video title if you're interested:
"Dave Mustaine REJECTS Kiko"
Thanks for the lesson man!!
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@@ThisUnderWorldOfDarkness glad it helped and I’ll check out that video, thanks! Megadeth reggae would be sweet.
I removed my middle finger to make that A minor chord. Now that my middle finger is gone, I can't make that A major chord anymore. Did I do something wrong? My girlfriend is mad at me about this on top of can't making A major bar chords anymore.
😂😂😂 Thanks for this, made me laugh.
Great Video friend! I’ve been listening to a lot of Roots Rock Reggae bands like Rebelution, Tribal Seeds, Iration etc…. Appreciate the progressions!
Thank you! Love those bands and glad my video was helpful.
Explain to me please how you’re positioning your fingers and on what string and fret
Woooow Amazing Thanks Sir. 🎸🎸🎸. Woooow I like very much Reggea strumming.
Glad you enjoy it, Omit! Thanks for tuning in and keep jamming.
Wicked video bro. Fantastic job
Glad it’s helpful!
Amazing beautiful music and video 😍very good work 💪love it 🔥💗
Many thanks!
thank you Billy now I no how to play reggae
Love to hear that! Glad it was helpful.
Thank you for sharing this!
Happy to do it! Hope it’s helpful.
I really love this ❤
Lekker can't wait to try this when I get home
Need the strumming pattern!)
Good lesson, especially for beginners. But if I can add to it... this is good for acoustic (or electric) but especially acoustic solo playing. When playing reggae in a band you don't want to play all 6 strings, especially not the lower (in pitch) 3 strings. The bass has that covered. Also just play the upbeat or ands (1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and) and maybe mute the downbeats but still strum to add rhythmic effect. Speaking of pitch my only critique is that you said go up from B to A. You are going down in pitch. We always speak of up or down in a pitch sense as it's music we are talking about. So if you go up to the neck from the 5th fret to the 7th fret you are going up a whole step. If you go from the 5th fret of your A string to the 5th fret of your D string you're going up a string, more specifically up a 4th. It sounds like nit picking but this is important to really internalize and think (the long term goal is be able to hear) the intervals or distance between notes and whether they are going up in pitch or down. You shouldn't have to specify pitch up is always up in pitch down is always down. Again good lesson and thank you! 😊
Thanks, Matt, and your points are well taken!
What is your guitare ?
please.
Good continuation 🍀🍀🍀...
The guitar I’m playing here is an Ibanez Performance Series guitar - it’s a cutaway acoustic electric. Bought it new back in 2002 so it’s had a lot of use since then!
@@BillyDeCristofano , thank you very much.
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@@AlbertoJIEBEL you got it!
@@BillyDeCristofano, no i haven't got it. I would like 😊.
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Can you tech this pattern Dwon up method..?
I did a tutorial on this that can be found here: th-cam.com/video/h3-q8v3xbxU/w-d-xo.html
Hope it helps!
yeah, u rule dude. gratitude.
Gratitude right back. Thanks, and have fun jamming some reggae!
Thanks billy
Glad it’s helpful! Thanks for tuning in
Bro u hv Xtra Xtra long fingers dat reaches over d fret board dats how u play Dem Barr cords so easily😊
nice
Great track! One love
So what's the song? Sir😊
@@Salimah-b1f it could be a song but I didn’t have anything specific in mind. Just playing reggae!
Nice video
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I like reggae chords played through a hard rock, heavy metal distortion pedal. Reggae bands don't do this, run their guitars through high gain distortion pedals and or amps. IMO the reggae band that does this with some serious tunes will blow up as an underground band with some radio play. Just my opinion.
Good call. 311 play reggae with distorted guitar on some of their tracks and it’s real nice. Worth checking out.
@@BillyDeCristofano Thanks for the recommend, enjoyed it much. I did a search on "311 band - reggae songs" and a mix chain featuring their reggae tunes came up. My favorite is _"Light Years"_ In the songs they're using distortion that I heard so far it sound like light distortion, which is much better sounding than straight clean guitars.
If were to record a reggae song I would use a heavier distortion sound.
What 311 did from what I heard so far, was blend light distortion with the reggae chords and went into rock progressions with heavier distortion ....which I thought was awesome.
I heard some Ziggy Marley stuff about 10 years ago which did the same, only fused it with a house music club sound that I loved.
I'm not the biggest fan of straight reggae ...but the fusion or blending of it with rock and other modern forms of music is the best, for my tastes.
Thanks again for the video guitar lesson and the 311 recommend. Cheers!!
@@ThisUnderWorldOfDarkness its not real reggae at that point… real roots reggae is very simplistic with the guitar being just for the rhythm. The reason why no band has distorted reggae is because it really doesnt work unfortunately, sublime and 311 were the closest but even then didnt try to hard to distort the reggae sound
bro ur last name and mine one letter off great vid my buddy
Nice, don’t come across too many with a long Italian last name like ours! Glad the vid is helpful 👊
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Dont understand anything…
It’s tough to jump right into. Start with learning barre chords. Learn an A and Bm barre chord. Then practice a “double skank” strum rhythm while going back and forth between those two chords to start. Hope it helps.
@@BillyDeCristofano will try, thanks!
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