Art of Reggae

PRACTICE LOOPS

Practice loops are play-along tracks that include original songs composed specifically for the courses and one-shots recorded by the Art of Reggae band, which are called ‘originals,’ and electronic re-makes of many popular Jamaican riddims which are called, you guessed it, ‘riddims.’ You will find looped versions of the demonstration song(s) that were used in many of the lessons but feel free to practice any concept you are learning using different loops. This will help you better understand the concept as you’ll be applying it to different keys and with different feels.

When you choose a practice loop that is specific for your instrument, that instrument will be muted. For example, if you’re a keyboard player, all the keyboard tracks will be muted, leaving just the bass, drums, guitar and percussion parts to jam along with. You can use any of these loops to practice any of the concepts you are learning. You can identify what instrument a loop is for by looking in the upper right hand corner. There is an icon for the instrument and this means that instrument is muted. For example if there’s a piano icon, this if for keyboard players where the keyboard parts are muted.

Drumset only loops: These are loops that have no bass, guitar or keyboards…just the drums. You can use these to practice in different keys.

Changing tempos: If a loop is too fast you can slow the tempo by clicking on the ‘gear’ icon on the lower left corner of the video and choose “0.75x.” This will slow the track by 25% with reasonably good sound quality. (If you try the “0.5” setting the sound quality is mostly terrible.)

NOTE ON BPM (beats per minute) MARKINGS: most of the loops list the bpm in Cut Time “Fast Feel.” See the intro video on Cut Time vs. Common Time for more info.

KEYBOARD PRACTICE LOOPS

54-46 (riddim) swing 8th feel
Above the Bassline (original) straight 8th feel
Above the Bassline (original) switching from swing to straight 8th feel
All We Need (original) rock reggae, straight 8th feel
Bad Card (riddim) no keyboards, straight 8th feel
Bad Card (riddim) no piano (with the organ bubble), straight 8th feel
Cross Your Bridge (original) swing 8th feel
Cross Your Bridge (original) straight 8th feel
Day Nurse (original) straight 8th feel
Drum Song, Matt Jenson arrangement, 2 chords, straight 8th feel
Drum Song (riddim), one chord only, straight 8th feel
Cuss Cuss (riddim) one chord only, swing 8th feel
Exodus (riddim) straight 8th feel
Full Up (riddim) straight 8th feel
Get Up (original) straight 8th feel
Half Day Nurse (original) straight 8th feel
Half Day Nurse SLOW (original) straight 8th feel 63bpm
Heathen (riddim) with dubwize-riddim call outs, in between swing and straight 8th feel
Hit and Run (original) swing 8th feel, used for synth horns
Intoxicated by You (original) swing 8th feel
It’s Been a Long Long Time (opriginal) straight 8th feel
It’s Been a Long Long Time (original) swing 8th feel
Love Bump (riddim) key of C, 140bpm swing 8th feel
Love Bump (riddim) key of Eb, 140bpm swing 8th feel
Love Bump (riddim) key of C, 160bpm swing 8th feel
Love Bump (riddim) key of Eb, 160bpm swing 8th feel
Murder She Wrote (riddim) straight 8th feel
One and All (original) straight 8th feel
On the Other Side (riddim) in between swing and straight 8th feel
Ska’Reggae (original) switches from ska to reggae, straight 8th feel
Some Shall Pass (original) straight 8th feel
Stir it Down (original) straight 8th feel
Sweet Feeling (riddim) swing 8th feel
Taxi (riddim) straight 8th feel
Top Ten (riddim) straight 8th feel
What Does it Take (original) straight 8th feel

GUITAR PRACTICE LOOPS

Above the Bassline (original)
Cuss Cuss (riddim) one chord only
Sweet Feeling (riddim)
Some Shall Pass (original)
It’s Been a Long Long Time, straight 8th feel (original)
It’s Been a Long Long Time, swing 8th feel (original)
Stir it Down (original)
Ska’Reggae (original) switches from ska to reggae
All We Need (original) rock reggae
Intoxicated by You (original)
One and All (original)
What Does it Take (original)
Heathen (riddim) with dubwize-riddim call outs
Exodus (riddim)
Cross Your Bridge swing 8th feel (original)
Cross Your Bridge straight 8th feel (original)
Guess Who's Coming (original)
Our Conversation (original)

DRUMS ONLY LOOPS

8 Beat One Drop, straight or swing 8th feel

16 Beat One Drop, straight 8th feel

Swing 8th One Drop, swing 8th feel, up tempo

Swing 8th One Drop, swing 8th feel, medium tempo

16 Beat Rockers, straight 8th feel

Steppers, swing 8th feel

Ska, straight 8th feel

Dancehall

Reggaeton

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