Chords for The Difference Between Ska, Rocksteady, and Reggae Guitar - Guitar Lesson

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Bm

D

C#m

Gm

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The Difference Between Ska, Rocksteady, and Reggae Guitar - Guitar Lesson chords
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[Gm] So there's this video on YouTube of Bob Marley talking about the difference between
ska, rocksteady, and reggae.
But a lot of people couldn't understand it apparently.
I was reading
the comments and they didn't really understand what he was saying about the differences and they
are kind of subtle in some ways.
So I'm going to go through what the difference is between ska,
rocksteady, [A] reggae, the progression from ska to reggae.
So ska was the original
style.
[Bm] [A] [Bm]
[A] [Bm] [A] Rapid fire, staccato, strums on the offbeat.
Very danceable music.
So then came
rocksteady in the 60s.
It's basically just a slowed down version of ska.
So here's rocksteady.
[Bm]
[A] [Bm] [A] [Bm] It's [C#m]
[Bm] [A] a little more of a sway, a little slower.
Great, usually background harmonies and things
like that happen on these old rocksteady tunes.
Check out Alton Ellis' Rocksteady.
Good song.
Good rocksteady song if you're not quite sure what rocksteady is.
And then came reggae.
Features a slight difference in the guitar.
Sometimes called the double skank,
which is basically just a really quick two-strum [Dm] pattern.
[Bm] It [A] goes over the bass.
[Bm]
[A] [Bm] [A] [D]
[A] [D] [A]
So here they are in [G#] [A] a row.
Ska.
[Bm]
[A] Rocksteady.
[Bm] [A] [Bm]
[A] [Bm] [A] [D] [C#m]
[Bm] [A] Reggae.
[Bm]
[A] So [D] [A] [Bm]
[A] [Bm] [A] [C#]
that's the difference between ska, rocksteady, and reggae.
[E] [B] [C#m] [Bm] [C#m]
[D] [A] [D] [N]
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1231
Bm
13421112
D
1321
C#m
13421114
Gm
123111113
A
1231
Bm
13421112
D
1321
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[Gm] So there's this video on YouTube of Bob Marley talking about the difference between
ska, rocksteady, and reggae.
But a lot of people couldn't understand it apparently.
I was reading
the comments and they didn't really understand what he was saying about the differences and they
are kind of subtle in some ways.
So I'm going to go through what the difference is between ska,
rocksteady, [A] reggae, the progression from ska to reggae.
So ska was the original
style.
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ Rapid fire, staccato, strums on the offbeat.
Very danceable music.
So then came
rocksteady in the 60s.
It's basically just a slowed down version of ska.
So here's rocksteady.
_ [Bm] _ _
[A] _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ [Bm] It's _ [C#m] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ a little more of a sway, a little slower.
Great, usually background harmonies and things
like that happen on these old rocksteady tunes.
Check out Alton Ellis' Rocksteady.
Good song.
Good rocksteady song if you're not quite sure what rocksteady is.
And then came reggae.
Features a slight difference in the guitar.
Sometimes called the double skank,
which is basically just a really quick two-strum _ [Dm] pattern.
[Bm] It [A] goes over the bass.
_ _ [Bm] _ _
[A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _
So here they are in [G#] [A] a row.
Ska.
_ [Bm] _
_ [A] Rocksteady.
[Bm] _ _ [A] _ [Bm] _ _
[A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _ [C#m] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [A] Reggae.
_ [Bm] _ _
[A] So _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [A] _ [C#] _
that's the difference between ska, rocksteady, and reggae.
[E] _ [B] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [C#m] _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ [N] _ _

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