Re: reggae scales for guitar

: can anyone send me some reggae solo scales n some reggae chords email me at Gonerenegade@yahoo.com

I have a very limited knowledge of reggae music, but I think i can help a little bit. Reggae Chords are not some fancy breed of their own, they basically are normal major/minor chords, nothing too abstract. What makes them unique is the voicing of the chords and the pattern/rythym in which they are strummed. For example, Dyer Maker by Zeppelin has somewhat of a reggae feel, not exactly, but a good example. It is just c major, a minor, f major, and g major. The notes are taken from the barre chord forms of these and just an interesting pattern and picking rythym is used on the D,G, and B strings. As for solos, this is where my knowledge goes way down hill, but from what I hear from Marley, etc, is a major pentatonic chord, maybe some major scale (iolian) thrown in. Of course minor pent would work too depending on the sound, but basically it is just the note you resolve to and the note you resolve from. Play with landing on different intervals from the root of the chord to get that sound. Maybe from the 7th to the 1st for the chord change. I am not sure if any of this helped. I just was in the mood for reggae and tried to decipher some of it. I am more of a blues man myself, but if you have any questions, i can try to help, and if i can't, i know people who can.

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