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Caribbean

Reggae on guitar: chords and rhythm.

Reggae keeps simple chords, often I – IV – V like A, D, E, but plays them on the offbeat: a short stroke on 2 and 4, the skank, muted right after. The bass and drums carry the beat.

I – IV – VLevel · Beginner

The progression

Pick a key: the charts change right below. "Listen" plays the progression with its rhythm; a click on a chord plays it alone, the arrow opens its page.

Key

In A major · 76 BPM
  • A
    A major×123
  • D
    D major××132
  • E
    E major231

The rhythm

One bar of the strumming hand, beat by beat. While it plays, the stroke being played lights up.

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2
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3
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4
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  • the high strings, cut short

In the collection

1

Songs in this style, with their chords or the scale of their solos.

From the same world

Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and the French Antilles: simple chords played on the offbeat, over the clave or the tresillo.