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Ron Dough
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« Reply #15 on: 18:07:01, 25-11-2007 »
Your wish is my command, John. Sorted.
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« Reply #16 on: 18:46:34, 25-11-2007 »
thanks Ron  Cheesy

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« Reply #17 on: 18:56:33, 25-11-2007 »


Getting back to what I said earlier

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Of course reggae has a particular beat, always 4/4 but with an emphasis or a drum rimshot on the third beat which just makes people dance. The early reggae tended to be a bit fast, but from the late 70s many slower reggae tunes emerged

Is reggae the first music to adopt this beat? Just wondering if say maybe a baroque composer ever devised a dance to this  Smiley
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« Reply #18 on: 19:09:01, 25-11-2007 »
The metre in Reggae is quite variable, John, especially in the way it subdivides. A lot of the slower music (think of Marley, 'One Love' for example) sub-divides the beat into three rather than two or four.
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« Reply #19 on: 19:29:09, 25-11-2007 »
martle, yes there are variations, I'm not a percussion/beat expert so I'm not sure your meaning in "sub-divides the beat into three rather than two or four" - I can just about manage to pick out a 4/4  Cheesy

but in my head I hear One Love as 4/4 with the fourth beat emphasis but I'll dig out the album to check. I Wanna Love You is different again I think, and I'll compare them with the Exodus track which I think has the third beat emphasis.
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« Reply #20 on: 19:31:24, 25-11-2007 »
John, I didn't explain that well at all, sorry. I simply meant that it has a 'triplety' feel, as in compound rather than simple time, and that this is typical of reggae 'balads' (if that's a meaningful term here!).
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« Reply #21 on: 19:36:22, 25-11-2007 »
John, as I said to you yesterday, my oldest brother lived in Trinidad, so we grew up on the music he brought home, now if you like calypso and cricket, this fun  Cheesy

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« Reply #22 on: 19:44:52, 25-11-2007 »
Quote from: martle on 19:31:24, 25-11-2007
John, I didn't explain that well at all, sorry. I simply meant that it has a 'triplety' feel, as in compound rather than simple time, and that this is typical of reggae 'balads' (if that's a meaningful term here!).

ballads?

Yes, that is meaningful. Many over-60 jamaicans and those who emigrated here in the 1950s, while liking the rock reggae, do prefer to play 'ballads' in their house which also include other popular tunes in 4/4 given a reggae style.

I'll have a session with my daughter (who has little knowledge of reggae) later in the week which will give me a chance to figure out what you mean. Marley aside, the variations that are heard on some Island 'sampler' albums (various artistes) is quite astonishing.


thanks for link Anna  Smiley
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