How to Play Bob Marley Kinky Reggae Guitar Lesson

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How to play the Wailers' "Kinky Reggae" on guitar. A video music lesson by Baldhead Brad.

The chords are Am, Gm, and Am#5.

You can find a chord and lyric sheet on my Facebook page, which you can download as .PDF or print out. Click the link above!

"Kinky Reggae" first appeared on The Wailers' 1973 major label debut album, Catch A Fire. There's also a great live version on Talkin' Blues.

I'm not totally sure what "Kinky Reggae" is about. Bob Marley was in London when he wrote it, and it seems to express his run-ins with the temptations of the big city--namely, loose women and hard drugs. The patois is pretty thick, though, and hard for a baldhead like me to decipher!

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Thanks,
Baldhead Brad

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[FlemoZ]

Nice sound baldhead! do you use any delay? keep jammin'......

[BaldHeadBrad]

@FlemoZ Thanks. No delay--just a dry down-up chop. My chopping was actually really sloppy on this one. I kept drifting.

[psynapsurfa]

continuing from my post below.. look i am just being fussy i guess.. it does not really matter at all, especially as you have nailed the chords.. and for that i thankyou... sometimes i like being lazy, or just seeing how others hear the songs...

thanx again man..

i am interested on your thoughts on my theory tho...

[BaldHeadBrad]

@psynapsurfa You may well be correct. I don't know music theory. I just play by ear. If I find myself fishing for a chord name, I type into Chorderator. I think most people who watch my videos are more interested in the diagram than the name. Thanks for your insight.

[psynapsurfa]

hey i am just wondering, that even tho this track seems to sit with an A as root/resolution, this track would actually appear to be in the key of d minor(7??), given the presence of gminor.. if it was Am we would get G..

so on this theory the chord you say is an Am#5, would actually be the Dm, played as A/Dm. ie forgoing the Droot and plaing the bass5th of Dminor...the A.. thus keeping the tuning resolving into an A.

semantics i guess. conversely it could be the key of Gm, with A/Dm



[hugocormerais]

@BaldHeadBrad My real ampli is a line 6 :D

I have not interface , I've just amateur stuff .. I take a line to my guitar in the enter micro ..

The sound is not perfect , but i have fun

( Go to my channel to listen Slave driver , I do the guitar with guitar rig :)

[BaldHeadBrad]

@hugocormerais Cool. I haven't tried Guitar Rig. Any good? The Line 6 stuff is ok, and definitely convenient for recording. My next major gear purchase will be a Fender Deluxe Reverb. Probably won't happen for a few months, though.

[hugocormerais]

@BaldHeadBrad Ok thank you ... i will try that with guitar rig or with my real ampli :)

[BaldHeadBrad]

@hugocormerais Thanks, man. For this song, I'm actually using a digital amp model on my computer. I have a USB guitar interface called a Line 6 POD UX2. I plug my guitar into the Line 6 POD UX2, then I connect the Line 6 POD UX2 to my computer with USB. Once I'm connected, I open a software program called Line 6 POD Farm, which is included with the UX2 device. I allows me choose a variety of digital amp models. For "Kinky Reggae," I used a virtual Fender blackface combo + a little reverb.