[LAU] tool practice rhythm

schoappied schoappied at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 05:23:09 EDT 2008


Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Ken Restivo wrote:
>   
>> One of the reasons I can't play
>> reggae convincingly is because I don't use the stuff; I can't imagine
>> anyone being able to play "plink.... plink.... plink... plink" on the
>> 2 and 4 for hours on end without it. :-)
>>     
>
> I play in a reggae band, and I don't use any "remedy". At least three 
> things are different from what you describe:
>
> 1) The bass-player is from Ghana and the drummer from Mozambique, and 
> those guys groove like something else...
>
> 2) You don't play "plink... plink" on 2 and 4 at all. You play tobacco 
> on 1-&, 2 and 2-&. I use a rhodes on "to" and "cco" and an hammond w 
> lesslie on "ba". Getting this groove right is not that easy...
>
> 3) They pay well :-)
>
>   
I guess I've been raised in the wrong part of the world to learn 
'reggae' rhythms....

About solfege. I like the rhythm learning tool, but is it also possible 
to repeat a given rhythm constantly? Now you get only one bar...






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