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pincushion
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Post by pincushion » Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:42 pm

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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Post by .klimaxx » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:28 pm

i have no experience in it personally.. but i would say almost definitely you're best bet is use Native Instruments' Guitar Rig 3, and add a good bit of delay to taste..

also, ska guitar chords are usually on the off beat - so keep that in mind

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Post by spencertron » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:34 pm

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 :wink:
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Post by Sharmaji » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:34 pm

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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Post by fizzle » Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:05 am

get on a guitar forum,
look up the chord you need,
find some guy with the skillz and the goods to record HQ what you need and be friends with him,
socialiiiize,

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Post by Tangka » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:41 am

TeReKeTe wrote: in real-guitar land it's often barre chords. the old-school guys play it with a downstroke;the new school guys, upstroke
i dont know man a lot of that 3rd wave crap is definitely down

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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Post by jeer » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:57 pm

old skool ska is typically upstroke.....not downstroke
all the new wave stuff like Earthling said is downstroke.
& I find that going upstroke gives you the ability to get more rythm down naturally

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Post by ikeaboy » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:25 pm

I think the fender strat was used in a lot of early tracks, so it has the tone you know will fit. Ableton has a strat in its essential instruments package.

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Post by FSTZ1 » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:28 pm

I really wish I hadn't fucked up my copy of steinberg virtual guitar

I'd skank the hell out of you lot!

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Post by moki » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:09 am

I use Tension in Live, and put it through a wah, delay and then some reverb. Oh and I hi pass it aswell.

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