Reggae Drums and Percussion

dominicw78 · Post by **dominicw78** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:04 am

I'm trying to piece together a list of all the various acoustic drums and percussion used in Reggae.

Here's what I've got so far -

Drumkit
Timbales
Cowbell
Woodblock
Guiro
Vibraslap
Hit scrape
Cabassa
Shakers
Tamborine

What else is there used? I'm sure there are some more pieces I missed or don't know the name of.

v00d00ppl · Post by **v00d00ppl** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:47 am

that's pretty much it. If you want a good modern dancehall drumset, most of the stock triton sounds layered with a regular 5 piece yamaha kit will do you just find.

Now if you want to take it back like the 80's chop samples from many of the greensleeves records. If you are looking to recreate the sound a 5 piece drumset will do just fine along with 808, 909, and DR-55 will get you by.

The sopunds of Jamaica's independence up to the 70s can easily be recreated getting a bass stab to help build rhythme along wth a rhodes sound library alongside a decent B3 organ. 5 piece drumsets get the job done, but make sure the kicks and snares are detuned so they sound like they have been abused through too much practicing.

dominicw78 · Post by **dominicw78** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:04 am

What about steel drums, where do they fit into the picture? Are they a sort of honourary member of the jamaica reggae outfit?

v00d00ppl · Post by **v00d00ppl** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:51 am

steel drums can be used as a percussive element and also a tonal element in your music. But dont try to recreate the suolja boy song with the steel drums cuz that was so 2007.

Good examples of steel drums would be from the soca tracks. I'm not really a soca person, but tune in to radio1's soca show
http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/alexjordan/ to get a good example of steel drums.

Steel pulse is the only steel drum reggae sound i like.

dominicw78 · Post by **dominicw78** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:06 am

I'm sure there are some other obscure quirky percussion instruments going on in the back ground off marley tracks. Just don't know what they are.

v00d00ppl · Post by **v00d00ppl** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:23 am

dominicw78 wrote:I'm sure there are some other obscure quirky percussion instruments going on in the back ground off marley tracks. Just don't know what they are.

if you get VH1 classic with either your satelitte/cable provider there was a special on how a bob marley album was produced.....

dominicw78 · Post by **dominicw78** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:33 am

I don't have cable or satellite, but perhaps I can track down the show. Where is VH1 aired? Do you know the name of the show or when it was on? I'm in Melbourne.

v00d00ppl · Post by **v00d00ppl** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:15 am

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vh ... h&aq=f&oq=

hopefully this search string helps.

DaffyDub · Post by **DaffyDub** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:37 am

Try digging into Nyahbingi

http://www.roots-archives.com/nyahbinghi/[url][/url]

dominicw78 · Post by **dominicw78** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:54 am

v00d00ppl wrote:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vh ... h&aq=f&oq=

hopefully this search string helps.

cheers

Reggae Drums and Percussion

Reggae Drums and Percussion

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