[LAU] tool practice rhythm

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Mon Apr 21 11:41:00 EDT 2008


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:40:13AM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Atte_Andr=E9_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 :-)

Wow, thanks for the explanation.

I guess one of the reasons I've never been able to play it is because I didn't learn it right.

-ken



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