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anybody got any good tips for ska style guitar bits, such as ones in blue eyez by skream or here we come by kromestar? just short stabs
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if you play guitar and can record it...simply...
upstroke chord for ska
or
muted bar chords (up and downstroke) typical dub...with wah on high (low Pass)...
increasing volume effect on delay as is typical in ol roots tunes is a result of delay beginning to layer with itself...for this increase the 'feedback' on the delay
and voila!
Many synths cannot emulated the sound of naturally strummed chords, but i've a couple physical modelled synths that do a decent job in Reaktor, but there's nothing like getting the ol 6 string out for this sort of thing
upstroke chord for ska
or
muted bar chords (up and downstroke) typical dub...with wah on high (low Pass)...
increasing volume effect on delay as is typical in ol roots tunes is a result of delay beginning to layer with itself...for this increase the 'feedback' on the delay
and voila!
Many synths cannot emulated the sound of naturally strummed chords, but i've a couple physical modelled synths that do a decent job in Reaktor, but there's nothing like getting the ol 6 string out for this sort of thing

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in real-guitar land it's often barre chords. the old-school guys play it with a downstroke;the new school guys, upstroke. look up the voicings for barre chords online, load up guitar patch that sounds like an SG thru a fender twin, and... ta-daaaaa.. ska.
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in real-guitar land it's often barre chords. the old-school guys play it with a downstroke;the new school guys, upstroke. look up the voicings for barre chords online, load up guitar patch that sounds like an SG thru a fender twin, and... ta-daaaaa.. ska.
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i dont know man a lot of that 3rd wave crap is definitely downTeReKeTe wrote: in real-guitar land it's often barre chords. the old-school guys play it with a downstroke;the new school guys, upstroke
and the old guys varied the hell out of their sht
especially when it moved through the late 60s into the 70s and things slowed down
quite often the old stuff was 3 strokes:
kick up down up, up down up kick up down up, up down up
i play all kinds of up / down alternating patterns starting with both down and up and i play ska and reggae all in the old school sense
personally I call it all reggae anyway and i would say to play ska guitar is to play a form of reggae guitar
this is just because the defining lines are so broad and reggae is really a later evolution of ska as ska is really the beginning of reggae in my mind
i might be down to prepare a whole pack of myself stroking both my strat and gretsch in all kinds of funky patterns... for all of you guys
just give me some time
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