So Im going to get into Reggae guitar

I was wondering if any of you have any tips on playing reggae guitar, or know any good reggae guitarists?

Bob Marley is a given, but I want to see all types of reggae guitar

peter tosh, (used to be in marley's band i think) and marley's son what ever his name is. Also check out some ska music there is a tight relation ship between reggae and ska.

it's a lot of melodic upstrokes. Use a slow rhythm (about 90 bpm) and try to play a relaxed chord progression with a variant mix of Majors, Minors, and Minor 7ths. Try playing A major, C# Minor, B Minor 7th, and E Major.

The picking I would use in an 8 bar would be ; Down stroke, Up stroke, Down Mute, Up Stroke, Down Mute, Up Stroke, Down stroke, Up Mute. Do that with each chord two measures a piece, until your satisfied with it enough to put a little variance in it. Just keep it relaxed, and focus on your mutes and upstrokes.

In most standard rock/blues, you find that the strong beats are the first and third beats. In reggae/ska, the stronger beats are 2 and 4, so you put more emphasis (usually by playing louder) on those.

A lot of times, the first and third beats are muted.

So maybe try this little key of C chord progression (play muted strums as quarter notes and the chords as eighth notes):

E--x---0-0-x---3---------

B--x---1-1-x---0---------

G--x---0-0-x---0---------

D--x---2-2-x---0---------

A--x---3-3-x---2---------

E--x-------x---3-------

   

   1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

well, i like Ron Butler (Israel Vibration)