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Originally Posted by hevusa
sounds like reggae is not for you. it is just a ska derivative anyway. don't be too upset.
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you really haven't been paying any attention the past few years have you?
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Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Being a guitarist in a reggae band is essentially just holding a really expensive electric cabasa in most cases.
It just isn't a glory instrument in that genre. It's a percussion instrument with a neck and six nearly-useless strings, rare exceptions notwithstanding.
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Its a little more than that, in fact keeping a riddim going with appropriate scratching and chanking is much harder than it looks, and if you follow the links or are in anyway familiar with reggae archives you will see there is quite a bit of expansive, innovative lead guitar work, its just that so many of the artists (at least those I have had the privilege to play with) are not as receptive to the potential..
DUB has these highlights embedded in its stylee, but I need to vocal power of reggae to spread the message, but also the simple jamming riddims to run through some creative guitar work.