How to play ska guitar
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How to play ska rhythm
How to play ska rhythm on guitar. For beginners to intermediate players.
From the Secret Guitar Teacher: https://www.secretguitarteacher.com/
Here's the video script:
The term Ska covers quite a broad range of styles of music, but as with Reggae, once you have learned the basics the rest easily falls into place with careful listening.
Here's the basic Ska beat - the one that is used the most.
The guitar is rarely played on the main beats in Ska, and you can see that in this basic pattern all the main beats are shown as rests. And I think the best way to learn this is to play the main beats as muted down stokes like this ...then bring in the sound of the chord on the upstrokes only. Notice that I simply squeeze the chord on and then instantly relax the fretting hand to kill the sound - to cut the note off nice and crisply
With the strumming hand, the emphasis must be on keeping the hand ultra relaxed and the movement nice and free flowing. This is particularly important with the later waves of Ska which, influenced by punk music is often played at a frenetic pace remember the key to playing faster is not to tense up or use more force, but to simply relax and let your hand movement flow naturally
Different guitarists play this basic rhythm in different ways - I find the way I have shown you - playing the upbeats with upstrokes - is a particularly good way to get into the rhythm. But once you feel you can do this up to speed, try to play exactly the same feel but with all down strokes like this less-experienced players may not find this so easy at high tempo. But one of the things this enables you to do is double up the sounded strokes like this.
This is easy enough to maintain at medium tempo, but hard to keep going at faster speeds unless you have a bass line to bounce off . You can supply a bass note yourself of course but you are then getting away from a true Ska rhythm as far as the guitar part goes.
Applying the counting trick that I recommend for anything with this 16-beat feel, helps solve the problem when you are first learning this. This is shown under the stave. Notice that it is always the '& a' beats, shown in bold, that are sounded.
So start slow and count out a nice steady 1 e & a ...2 e & a.....in muted beats then simply punch in the '& a' beats like this. This also works great for the third variation I am going to show you - something I call a 3 out of 4 beat.
Notice that this time the sounded notes all start on an upstroke each time and always fall on the 'e & a' beats. If you struggle with this one, the trick again is to start real slow... again with a completely muted 16 beat strum 1 e & a ...2 e & a..... and then punch in the 'e & a' beats like this.
Well I hope you have some fun with that. Once you have nailed these three rhythms, check the online tab sites for chords for songs by guys like by Laurel Aitken, Jimmy Cliff and Desmond Decker from the original 1950s Ska wave.
Then maybe Judge Dread, Bad Manners, Madness and the Specials from the British Two-tone revival of the 70s
This will really give you a firm foundation in the roots of what I think of as being one of the happiest of musical genres!
So Do Have fun with it!
From the Secret Guitar Teacher: https://www.secretguitarteacher.com/
Here's the video script:
The term Ska covers quite a broad range of styles of music, but as with Reggae, once you have learned the basics the rest easily falls into place with careful listening.
Here's the basic Ska beat - the one that is used the most.
The guitar is rarely played on the main beats in Ska, and you can see that in this basic pattern all the main beats are shown as rests. And I think the best way to learn this is to play the main beats as muted down stokes like this ...then bring in the sound of the chord on the upstrokes only. Notice that I simply squeeze the chord on and then instantly relax the fretting hand to kill the sound - to cut the note off nice and crisply
With the strumming hand, the emphasis must be on keeping the hand ultra relaxed and the movement nice and free flowing. This is particularly important with the later waves of Ska which, influenced by punk music is often played at a frenetic pace remember the key to playing faster is not to tense up or use more force, but to simply relax and let your hand movement flow naturally
Different guitarists play this basic rhythm in different ways - I find the way I have shown you - playing the upbeats with upstrokes - is a particularly good way to get into the rhythm. But once you feel you can do this up to speed, try to play exactly the same feel but with all down strokes like this less-experienced players may not find this so easy at high tempo. But one of the things this enables you to do is double up the sounded strokes like this.
This is easy enough to maintain at medium tempo, but hard to keep going at faster speeds unless you have a bass line to bounce off . You can supply a bass note yourself of course but you are then getting away from a true Ska rhythm as far as the guitar part goes.
Applying the counting trick that I recommend for anything with this 16-beat feel, helps solve the problem when you are first learning this. This is shown under the stave. Notice that it is always the '& a' beats, shown in bold, that are sounded.
So start slow and count out a nice steady 1 e & a ...2 e & a.....in muted beats then simply punch in the '& a' beats like this. This also works great for the third variation I am going to show you - something I call a 3 out of 4 beat.
Notice that this time the sounded notes all start on an upstroke each time and always fall on the 'e & a' beats. If you struggle with this one, the trick again is to start real slow... again with a completely muted 16 beat strum 1 e & a ...2 e & a..... and then punch in the 'e & a' beats like this.
Well I hope you have some fun with that. Once you have nailed these three rhythms, check the online tab sites for chords for songs by guys like by Laurel Aitken, Jimmy Cliff and Desmond Decker from the original 1950s Ska wave.
Then maybe Judge Dread, Bad Manners, Madness and the Specials from the British Two-tone revival of the 70s
This will really give you a firm foundation in the roots of what I think of as being one of the happiest of musical genres!
So Do Have fun with it!
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