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Africa and the Indian Ocean

Séga on guitar: chords and rhythm.

The séga of Réunion and Mauritius is danced in a triplet feel, in six-eight: three eighth notes per beat. Over I – IV – V7 (A, D, E7), the bass takes the first beat and the guitar answers with short chords on the following eighths.

I – IV – V7 – ILevel · Intermediate

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 · 112 BPM
  • A
    A major×123
  • D
    D major××132
  • E7
    E 721

The rhythm

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

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  • the bass, with the thumb
  • the high strings, cut short
  • the alternating bass

From the same world

Afrobeat's interlocking guitars, the arpeggios of the Congo, desert blues, Algerian raï and the séga of the islands.