Besetzung: | Blasorchester |
Komponist: | Timothy Travis |
Grad:Schwierigkeitsgrad: | 2 (leicht bis mittelschwer / Unterstufe) |
Genre: | Unterhaltungsmusik |
Dauer: | 2:30 |
Verlag: | Gobelin Music Publications |
Kategorie: | Unterhaltungsmusik |
Whereas the export of cane sugar used to be Jamaica’s main export product for many years, nowadays music has taken over this role. At first American music used to be very popular on the island. Later, however, Jamaican musicians started to experiment and thus in the end created their own musical style called Reggae.Well-known Reggae musicians are Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.
The most important instruments used in Reggae are the bass and the drums. Together they form the base for the style: the riddim. A bass drum accent on the second and fourth beat are characteristic of a typically reggae drum beat. To this syncopic patterns are often added. The rhythm guitarist plays chords in a characteristic Reggae rhythm, not on, but between the beats.