Reggae yes or ?

[Gps]

https://soundcloud.com/user586365033/reggae

Is this a good start ? Is this reggae ?

most worried how I am ever gonna add a melody to that.

[brandystarbrite]

This is Good good start.
Nice work so far.
You definitely have alot of the main basics down.
This sounds more, like the old school classical reggae.
That my parents would hear on the Radio, back in the old old days!
Like something a Rasta man on the streets of Jamaica would sing too.
(With lots of Puffy chimney smoke.) Lol!
Which means you are pretty close.


Note: In some reggae songs, there is a reverbing fat sounding echoing, single piano key.
They used it alot in the late 80's and early 90's reggae!
To elaborate further, Check this song for reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1P1SdLeOWE
From 30 secs to 33 secs. You'll hear the echoing piano key.
It is played once in a while throughout the entire songtrack.

Forget the lyrics and listen to the music track.
This is one example.
Not all reggae songs, use this single key press sounding note though.

Note: Also, not all reggae music, sound exactly the same.
Some are slow and easy, like the one you made.
Others are faster and stylistic, like the one in the vid I posted.

Here's another Coolish classical one.
Older generation, Caribbean party people, loved this track!
It was very Groovy as they would say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oin43JK-OZc
You'll hear all sorts of musical sounds, not heard in the first vid I posted.

But there are some melody, style and beat drum, similarities etc. to all of the different reggae music tracks.
There are so many styles of reggae music sounds, it's too much for my poor brain to fathom! GASP!! O.O

[musikbear]

Its really good :+

[Gps]

This is Good good start.
Nice work so far.
You definitely have alot of the main basics down.
This sounds more, like the old school classical reggae.
That my parents would hear on the Radio, back in the old old days!
Like something a Rasta man on the streets of Jamaica would sing too.
(With lots of Puffy chimney smoke.) Lol!
Which means you are pretty close.

Well I might be of the same age as you're parents, so that fits lol.

I think I am starting to see the light.

Years ago watched some lessons on tv. There was a band and they explained the different styles of popmusic.

Why is hard rock hardrock, what is funk, what is disco, and what is reggae.
From that series I remembered the main difference between reggae and other music.

One TWO three FOUR in stead of ONE, two three four. But this by itself is not enough to create reggae in a daw.
There is more to it.

Whats funny to me, the part I think that sounds the best. ( hi hats)
What I did, lIke the tutorial said, change the volume on the individual notes, the third count is the loudest, but I also moved the third note out of place, its 1/192 too soon. I need to try that some more, it makes it sound much more life played then computer generated.

Its funny that to make something sound not computer, you need to make timing "mistakes" so small we cant really hear it, but still notice it.

Now I am starting to understand tutorials I saw, were people used the mouse and swept over the volumes of the notes.
Because you never move in a perfect straight line, you instantly get it sounding more life like.

[Gps]

Junior Tucker - Don't Test
wow that a bit weird, but its reggae and I like it. Interesting. I wonder if his melody is a true reggae melody though.

JC Lodge Telephone Love sound more like regular reggae to me.

One of my favorite reggae tracks though, is not a reggae song by origin.
The original as far as I know:
chuck berry johnny b goode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFo8-JqzSCM

The version I love more, is from peter tosh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8WRzdN43BI

And I still need to figure out, were the difference is between ska and reggae.
If there is any.
But this is called ska, not reagae. (madness one step beyond)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkW9UJn2Zgs

http://worldmusic.about.com/od/genres/f ... Reggae.htm

Question: What is the Difference Between Ska and Reggae?

The short answer is that it's a pretty subtle, nuanced set of differences that mostly involves tempo and rhythm -- reggae is slower and more kicked-back, and ska is a bit punchier. But we can go a bit deeper here, too.

[Gps]

Its really good :+

Thank you.