It's cool that you're a drummer, and it's more cool that you obviously have heard reggae. The one thing that irks me is the drumbeat. Now your organ chops are on the "&" of every beat. (1 & 2 & ...) That would traditionally put the snare on the "2" and "4" - or you could just say the drums play in half-time (so the chops fall on "2" and "4") with snare on the "3rd" beat.
The "one drop" rhythm is essentially like this: "R X X X R X X X" (rest, git chop, snare hit, git chop).
@r0berito I used a beat my drum teacher and I went through while covering reggae which is a type of one drop that concentrates everything on the 3rd beat of every bar. I didn't want any link to 'rock' genre in the song so thought i would really change the traditional drums.
But thanks for the feedback, really appreciated it, hope you enjoyed it :)
Nice work man, sounds like some nice reggae, the only hing i would change is the bassline, witch is very big in reggae and you have a nice bassline but it sometimes misses the walking bass parts and some of the rhythmic verity that is defiant in reggae, plays some notes around the ground note of your chord that'l spice up your reggae a little
@rutgervuister Thanks a lot for the feedback, really appreciate it. As I'm a drummer I struggle to come up with parts like bass/guitar as I don't know my advanced chord theory too well. I can get by, but it's defiantly something I'm working to improve, but I defiantly know what you mean. Thanks again.
How peacefull!! :)))
Sherilink 4 days ago
@Sherilink Glad you thought so :)
MusicInitiative 4 days ago
It's cool that you're a drummer, and it's more cool that you obviously have heard reggae. The one thing that irks me is the drumbeat. Now your organ chops are on the "&" of every beat. (1 & 2 & ...) That would traditionally put the snare on the "2" and "4" - or you could just say the drums play in half-time (so the chops fall on "2" and "4") with snare on the "3rd" beat.
The "one drop" rhythm is essentially like this: "R X X X R X X X" (rest, git chop, snare hit, git chop).
r0berito 5 days ago
@r0berito I used a beat my drum teacher and I went through while covering reggae which is a type of one drop that concentrates everything on the 3rd beat of every bar. I didn't want any link to 'rock' genre in the song so thought i would really change the traditional drums.
But thanks for the feedback, really appreciated it, hope you enjoyed it :)
MusicInitiative 4 days ago
Nice work man, sounds like some nice reggae, the only hing i would change is the bassline, witch is very big in reggae and you have a nice bassline but it sometimes misses the walking bass parts and some of the rhythmic verity that is defiant in reggae, plays some notes around the ground note of your chord that'l spice up your reggae a little
Peace!
rutgervuister 3 months ago
@rutgervuister Thanks a lot for the feedback, really appreciate it. As I'm a drummer I struggle to come up with parts like bass/guitar as I don't know my advanced chord theory too well. I can get by, but it's defiantly something I'm working to improve, but I defiantly know what you mean. Thanks again.
Dan
MusicInitiative 3 months ago