I’ve recently received a lot of requests for more reggae loops. Some via email, some via the comments section and some via the hippie who decided to camp out in front of my house and play his djembe all night. To prevent any sort of rogue drum circle from forming in my neighborhood, I spent the majority of today laying down new reggae infused loops.
I began by setting the click to 166 BPM and experimenting with different delays on the snare channel. This is a trick I picked up from Stewart Copeland and can be heard on more than a few Police songs. The secret to making it really fit in the groove is to set the delay to a dotted eighth note and slightly filter the resulting notes. You can listen to Stewart explain this unique effect in this video (just forward to the 4:00 mark).
Today’s loop is a four bar phrase with one of Stewart’s signature tom fills leading into a crash on the “&” of beat four.
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4 Comments
I am following the first fieltr with small exclusions (white bread on weekends mmmm .) and the second comes a bit easier. Organic food is the way, especially local. Anyone having doubts please read Earth’s democracy by Vandana Shiva or Stuffed&Starved (or if you don’t believe in Global Warming because some TV presenter doesn’t then don’t bother )- most people have NO idea how bad industrially grown food is, pretty much for everyone involved. Thether it is industrial wheat, corn or rice it has low nutrition value, lots of chemicals in it, bad for local economy, terrible for people growing it, terrible for environment where it is grown. Slow food FTW! I am having trouble though when should what be eaten, any book on that James? I’m a bit uncertain at which times of the day is it good to eat carbs, when proteins, when to eat fiber, when to avoid it etc. I read a lot but ther is little explanations why, and when you find contradicting advices, then well You mention a bit about it in your Nutrition chapter of UMTBW, but I would like to understand a bit of it. How does this supply chain work, how the sorting functions, what ends up where in your body (outside?:D) January 16 at 8:29 am
Thats more like it. Can we have some one drop please?
Great loop.
And thanks for the delay tip.
Yes, please – more reggae!