However, over the years, other instruments such as horns, brass, and afro-cuban percussion have been introduced to reggae to spice things up. The instruments that form the foundation of a typical reggae song would be drums, electric bass, electric guitar, and keyboard. Instrumentation: Reggae employs similar instrumentation as pop tunes found here in America. This can be attributed to how reggae has a strong groove that would only make sense with slower tempos.ģ. The average tempo of a reggae tune ranges between 80 – 110 BPM, slightly slower than the usual commercial pop song. Tempo & Meter: A decent amount of reggae songs, if not all, are written using the 4/4 meter with heavy emphasis on the backbeat (more on that later). Lyrically, most reggae music comes from a deep sense of animosity and the need for survival and to be fighters.Ģ. Vocal Style: Since reggae originated from Jamaica, the Jamaican accent is evident in most reggae music. For this week, we’ll break down and analyze reggae by looking at its vocal style, tempo & meter, instrumentation, harmony, and rhythmic content. Some of them can be applied across multiple genres, and some are a little more specific to reggae. To ascertain how a musical style works, we need to quantify it into a few categories. You may not want to compose a whole reggae tune, but you may find that learning about a specific genre is a great help in learning more about music, and more specifically, grooves. To this day, a lot of reggae music has lyrical content that touches on political and socio-economic issues in Jamaica and around the world.Īs reggae is so specific to Jamaica, it’s worth exploring its musical characteristics and learning how we can incorporate them into our music. Since then, reggae has been a musical voice for Jamaicans to tell the world about their history, culture, and struggles in a political system that had enslaved and marginalized plenty of Jamaicans. Reggae is a genre of a popular music that originated out of Jamaica in the 1960s, made famous by artists such as Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Jimmy Cliff. It grew out of traditional Jamaican musical styles such as ska and was heavily associated to Rastafarianism – a religious movement that took root in Jamaica in the 1930s. Sign up to Splice Sounds and follow along by downloading the reggae repack here. In this article, we take a look at 5 elements that make up reggae and how you can use them in your productions. Part of being a competent producer is being knowledgeable of genres outside your comfort zone. The song is really soothing, soft and have….
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