is this 4-4 and reggae or ?

[Gps]

Hi guys I am trying to make reggae and I struggle.
So I am listening to reggae and try to copy stuff in lmms.

Listening to one track from a dutch band I get confused.
(I don't want to cover it, its just for learning)

Can some body confirm this is 4/4, and that its reggae ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmaqdSu5Svo

The instrument at 2:48 confuses me, lol
And the bassline is doing my head in.

Its about Nederwiet (netherweed) Cannabis sativa hollandica as they call it.
Its from 1981.

I hope I don't offend anybody, but its some what legal to grow max 5 plants in your garden over here.

[musikbear]

:DD that cant be more reggae
* its about hashish (marijuana) ..in latin but hey They are high, so dont expect logic
* all bandmembers look like they have been regular users like ..for-ever..
* thats true also for the audience
* they propl. using right there..

But most important -
* it is built exactly as in the reggae tutorial you found

confirm this is 4/4

Thats more challenging.. I cant say for sure, but i think i can count 4 beats in a bar, so yes, i think so.
If anyone know a fool-prove way to nail that, please share

[Gps]

Thank you, and lol.

Because this concert was in the Netherlands, the changes of people being high at a concert is huge.

I will go back to that reggae tutorial too, but that is giving me issues. Maybe I need a different hi hat, the first part of the tutorial is already in lmms, but it does not sound nice / right. Not blaming the tutorial, it must be something I am not doing right.
He also selects a drum set, suited for reggae, which I did not, I just picked a hi hat.

I have already noticed that the instrument used are important for reggae. You can see the drummer hitting the metal part of the drum, that sound is in lmms, but I can't recall the name right now.

Solved an issue I had with one track. They play three notes, repeat this, then a minor variation, then a full bar nothing.
And the first note of the three notes, does not start at 1.
I have also been looking at the orchestra at the back. Especially when they pick the violins.
Again not at the first count.

For the bassline I have connected my midi controller. My sense of rhythm is good enough to find when a note is played.
I record, and then see were the note ends up. For me this method goes a lot faster, then over and over trying every possible spot in the piano roll.
Because I cant play keyboard well, I often don't hit the right keys, but for the timing that does not matter.

I do know were my problem is though. Its about the relation between the instruments(tracks).
Not everything is played at the third count, some just do 1,2,3,4. ( which makes sense, because without it, you can't have this typical for reggae after beat as I call it.

[Gps]

Thank you, and lol.

Because this concert was in the Netherlands, the changes of people being high at a concert is huge.

I will go back to that reggae tutorial too, but that is giving me issues. Maybe I need a different hi hat, the first part of the tutorial is already in lmms, but it does not sound nice / right. Not blaming the tutorial, it must be something I am not doing right.
He also selects a drum set, suited for reggae, which I did not, I just picked a hi hat.

I have already noticed that the instrument used are important for reggae. You can see the drummer hitting the metal part of the drum, that sound is in lmms, but I can't recall the name right now.

Solved an issue I had with one track. They play three notes, repeat this, then a minor variation, then a full bar nothing.
And the first note of the three notes, does not start at 1.
I have also been looking at the orchestra at the back. Especially when they pick the violins.
Again not at the first count.

For the bassline I have connected my midi controller. My sense of rhythm is good enough to find when a note is played.
I record, and then see were the note ends up. For me this method goes a lot faster, then over and over trying every possible spot in the piano roll.
Because I cant play keyboard well, I often don't hit the right keys, but for the timing that does not matter.

I do know were my problem is though. Its about the relation between the instruments(tracks).
Not everything is played at the third count, some just do 1,2,3,4. ( which makes sense, because without it, you can't have this typical for reggae after beat as I call it.

Not that I can but I would love to be a bass ( guitar) player in reggae if only ones.

While typing this and listening to the song again, I noticed something interesting. In the break the drummer is exactly doing what that tutorial tells us.
One two three four on the hi hat, and then hit the metal on 2 and 4.

Slightly off topic, I liked reggae already before I smoke my first joint.

The best line in the song might be about patience, you need patience after you put the seed in soil.
Then he says, patience does not exist anymore, patience for example is, how long you can leave you're mobile phone off LOL.
It always reminds of a person I ones met. We a small group of people were placed in a bit of a dark room, and were thought how to relax.
One guy freaked out, and walked away.
A lot of people in our modern society are stressed, with out noticing this them self.

[musikbear]

wait a secd the picture in the tut is misleading -i think its something with flS being able to interpolate between resolutions, and that is totally confusing !
Do you think my reggae track sound correct?
I moved the skank part -so:
0000 1000 0000 1000
and the bubble
0010 0000 0010 0000
but then i added a low bubble
0000 0010 0000 0010
So they as he said 'plays up to each other'
Because the text is correct, but the image is really confusing
Does that help?

[Gps]

Yes it does help, it makes one 100% sense to me what you're writing, its how I understand reggae. And those two bubbles will give this typical up down effect in reggae. Now I will have a look at that tut again, and see if I can see this between resolutions in the pics. That's off course why he turned of snap in fl. progress.

I think lmms could use a quantization of 1/128. (to make things sound like its life played) but I can try how 1/64 deliberately off sounds.

Off topic the way II understand computers, I doubt that snap is really off in fruity loops, when you turn it off.
I assume the resolution (quantization in lmms) just gets higher.

If I had fl installed I could prob test this. Put in notes with snap on and off and see if that changes the file size.

[Gps]

Cant see it in the pics, but think I found it, he says:

Finally, to fill it out, we’re going to put some ghost notes in. I’m just going to fill in those gaps between each beat with extra notes.
I think that one thing I did wrong.