The Guitar in Reggae!

Talking about reggae guitar is the same as talking about the percussive side of the instrument boxed into a hermetic rhythmic environment and strongly marked. Although it may seem easy, some care is needed because losing this marking can destroy the musical style and anger the Rastafari Gods. Derived from SKA, REGGAE is a fusion of MENTO (ancestral Jamaican music) with RHYTHM AND BLUES. Technically speaking, the drums hit on the second and fourth beats of the measure and the guitar is in charge of the "ands" (understand that time is counted 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 where the numbers are the downbeats and the "ands" are the offbeats). Thus the drums insert a load of Blues and swing from North American black music and the guitar expresses the sound of mento. Example:  Stirt up: To make it easier, here is just the tablature: E | -12-12-12-12 | -14-14-16-16 | B | -14-14-14-14 | -15-15-17-17 | G | -14-14-14-14 | -14-14-16-16 | D | --------------------| ------------------- | A | --------------------| ------------------- | E | --------------------| ------------------- | Consider the (-) as the main beat count and the chords as the "ands" mentioned in the text above.

BIO

Evandro Freitas is from the ABC region (Greater São Paulo) and teaches music lessons. He has developed work and participated with various names in Brazilian music; among some of the names are Herberth Vianna, Frejat, Dionorina, João Cristal (Ana Carolina and Jair Rodrigues), Fançois de Lima and Mauricio de Souza (Djavan), Frank Gambale, among others. He is currently also a member of the São Paulo reggae band Conexao Jah.