Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

While i was practicing R37 swing it made me think of something.

When we play R37 swing groove we play all downstroke and mute all strings

If we were to do the opposite and mute on down stroke and play just upstroke is this basically what reggae is ????

Id love ot hear any insights on reggae style and how the rhythm of it works 🎸🎸🎸

Very cool Rhythm inversion to Reggae groove with R37. Fun to practice that, I agree. So basically just flip it around and your in the caribbean, I like it.
-johno

Fun fact: Tomo was in a Reggae band at one point in college.

Awesome! Please get sensei to do a video on reggae strumming technique and style🎸

I love reggae and ska!
Great observation Smooth!
That is super cool Sammi!

Thank you Tomo for insight, I will try it.

I want to be in the Caribbean now Johno (as long as there are no hurricanes :))

Yeah i think reggae can be powerful practice tool as sensei said it uses triads too and up stroke strums on the &.

Great for 1-4-5 practice say on triads for example A-D-E

With Tomo in a reggae band, I bet they did not skip a upbeat at all.

YES, Sunil, a beach in the Caribbean playing guitar to some lite calm breeze and lapping waves. R37 strong mute and some bright tone, which song to play in form? Little Ska and rhythm, i am stumped at the moment.
-johno

My fav reggae tune is probably

Dawn penn - no no no

Its a iconic classic for me

This was served up to me after listening to some Sugar Minnot, will be checking in on One World. Gm all inversions, will think about that.

This play has a collection of popular songs all made to a Reggae groove, acoustic. I don't know who is the artist. Bummer when the machine does not help with that information.

'Stand by me' in reggae has some triads and R37 going on.

-johno