Jamaican Music

• Ska: late 1950s

• Rocksteady: mid-1960s
• Reggae: late 1960s/early 1970s
• Dub: 1973
• Dancehall:1980s
 Reggae Music
Key characteristics
Instrumentation:
• Started in Jamaica in the late 1960s
• Drumkit • Drum fill at start
• Bass riff (e.g. ACD DFG)
• Un-tuned percussion
• 4 beats in a bar
• Lead guitar • Syncopation
• Bass guitar • Pentatonic
• Keyboard • 2nd & 4th beats are emphasised
• Trumpets & Trombones • Political lyrics
• Links with Rastafarianism
• Very few chords (Primary chords)