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You are one of the few REAL reggae players on KZread

@JohnJesus

Жыл бұрын

Thank you man🙏

Imagine I am Jamaican and I can't strum the reggae rhythm, WOW!! You are awesome...love from Jam Down❤️🇯🇲

You are the best teacher on KZread teaching how to play reggae music.

Thanks. You are the second person i see, showing alternatives to Barre chords. Two of mentioned that popular artistes don't really play the regular Barre chords. It maked a hell of sense.

Brother you good. You taught me hoe to play Bob's songs bass guitar now i am astonished by your skills to play rhythm👏👏👏👏

I can't bend my fingers into those positions thus i will never be able to play Reggae but i do enjoy listening to you John.

Fantastic! Been working on those Jimi/Marley chords! You explained the major/minor chords and made it super easy! Thank you.

This is so cool , many thanks. I’m having a major Marley fest and wanting to play all the time so this is perfect. Peace

Great skills so satisfying to watch you play! Thanks a lot

Thank you a lot man, great shapes to play the wailers

well done,very good,thanks for your help ,I have been trying to get this rithm for months,cheers

great video i like how you put the chord charts up it helps thanks.

Blessed my brada give thanks for the lesson blessed

Wow thank you so much J this is the easiest way to play guitar.

Great lesson! cool to see you showing the thumb style barre chords. I find them much easier!

Great video, you make it simple ... thank you

Great guitar lesson!!

really great , from france 2019

Excellent

Great tutorial,thank you

Great video, you should consider doing one on Peter tosh I can't find much information about his style but I absolutely love it and would like to know more about it.

Awesome teacher

thanks good work

Sweet!

you are great ,can you please do fill lesson for me like playing fill from scale or wherever.

Oh my goodness , your voice is Amazing 😍😍😍 . .

bro thanks for your tutorials i have an idea about reggae music. i love music and i am music minded

good job!

Excellent video!

Once again excellent video new subscriber!!

loud and clear...nice vid

Nice video bro.. Thaks a lot 4 your time

digging yr videos - u r lucid & concise teacher! could u maybe sometimes ever so briefly tell us what the bass lines are though here in this one i think i can figure it out.

Good info.

thanks a lot for this video, very good! God bless you! SAUDAÇÕES DO BRASIL!!

@JohnJesus

4 жыл бұрын

Obrigado Rafael!

Vary nice

thank you sincerely,you are a great musician brother...

@ramgoatliver6180

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Hey, it's my friend MH&S again! How you doing man? Good to see you on a video where the guy knows what he's doing. You can learn a lot from this man. Just compare the comments between this and the last geezer. One Love.

You're playing so nice thanks w lot ❤🙏🏻👍

nice bro

Can you please teach how to strum correctly both up and down?

Love the vibes king #waasskaa

What about how to play that with bass

How to play natural mistyc?

Nice! What pedals are you using?

How do you tune your guitar ?

@samibagelis9521

7 жыл бұрын

normal tune

Say hello from Venezuela. Very nice video! What about the position of the mics and the pedals he used?

@JohnJesus

4 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, I do not think he used pedals except an auto-wha-wha --- which I think he is using on a live version of Natural Mystic. You mean the position of the mic in front of the amp? I don't know, that can be really hard to tell....

@ALBERTOGARCIA-nk9bo

4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnJesus Hello. In The Wailers there was always more than 1 guitar so could be difficult to tell who was using pedals, because I hear compression, echo (is this love), and phaser in some songs. I mean if he used the bridge pickups for the rythim?

Hi John, can you use those shapes all over the fret board

@JohnJesus

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, of course! Then depending on which fret you are, you'll have different chord-names. Look at where is the root-note for each shape, and then figure out what note that is on the fretboard.

PRO...

Nobody can play like brother bob.

Is the bob bass lines based on Major and minor scales?

@JohnJesus

6 жыл бұрын

eksempler l yes - and also pentatonic (both minor and major) which exist within the major and minor scales

@eksempler69

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the infos and for the videos. Very good to wrap up the essential . Very interesting and useful.

buena viejo en español podes hacer algo

@7merkaba7

6 жыл бұрын

matthe1210 en un año daba para que aprendas ingles 😂

how can I make my guitar sound like that?

@JohnJesus

5 жыл бұрын

There are 3 main aspects in the sound of an electric guitar: 1 - The electronics of the guitar, especially the pickups 2 - The guitar amplifier used (and pedals) 3 - The guitar player / tone of the player You can grab a cheap fender squire, change the pickups for the best you can find (which will be more expensive than the guitar itself), set up the guitar properly, put it through a good valve amp, and hand it to a good guitarist -- the guitar will sound great, no matter the genre. I hope this helps!

@everyonehatesorange2993

5 жыл бұрын

J Jesus thank you so much

nice les paul jr deferent

Thanks for showing the noted because the rasta was not showing that good..

Doesn't all the noisy harmonics from the muted chucks bother you?

@7merkaba7

6 жыл бұрын

Kiman Dre that's part of the sound

Thought you would explain the rhythm and muting, not just the chord shapes...

@JohnJesus

4 жыл бұрын

Here is the video about that: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lIKBlKuwYtOaqpc.html

it's something like how Hendrix plays the chords

@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4

2 жыл бұрын

Lol,. 👎 No

@charalampostseronis6500

2 жыл бұрын

@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4 What no? Hendrix uses the thumb for the chords

@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4

2 жыл бұрын

@@charalampostseronis6500 hendrix and Marley two completely different worlds,

@charalampostseronis6500

2 жыл бұрын

@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4 that has nothing to do with the conversation

@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4

2 жыл бұрын

@@charalampostseronis6500 I'm not focusing on any conversation I'm just stating my point, the point being that's not how Bob played guitar ,he could and he probably did play it like that but that's not his unique style, the other point I made was never play the wailers music, and I'm not saying Jesus John's is playing the wailers music ,I'm saying never perform bob Marley and the wailers music, it's sacred ,you would only ruin it, it's too unique, I'm passing down what they said, bunny Livingston said never sing bobs music ,it's sacred , bob wanted people to enjoy reggae music not just only his

Two 20 second ads was too long to wait for any video. KZread think it’s delayed gratification but really it’s just annoyance. Sorry but KZread killed my enthusiasm….again!

Jesus you need a beard ✝️

I know that the chop comes on the second and fourth beat of the bar, but man reggae drums are confusing as fuck.

@JohnJesus

2 жыл бұрын

I would say you find it confusion because you simply haven't heard enough and/or are only used to rock/hiphop/pop - pretty much all other music with the accents on the 1 and 3. So, the solution is to hear more reggae😎 Once you get used to it, it will feel as natural as breathing

@allstarlord9110

2 жыл бұрын

John Jesus Oh I have been listening reggae since I was a little kid, i listen to a lot of reggae. But I have never practiced with reggae drum loops until yesterday, i would always practice for punk or rock n roll. Now I have a better feel for it, once I figured out the one drop beat it kinda came together as a puzzle

@JohnJesus

2 жыл бұрын

@@allstarlord9110 so, that's why, even though you had listen to a lot of it, your body/hand was only used to playing on the beat. As you can tell, with a bit of time practicing it your body will start to find it natural. The more you do it, the easier it gets😎

@allstarlord9110

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnJesus I will keep at it, cause i really love reggae music. Thanks bro, have a nice day

You’ all leave the man alone, uno just jealous , play on friend. They can’t teach squat!

He didn't play that bit lol that was Peter tosh and other versions it was played by junior marvin and or Al Anderson,. You know nothing,

@JohnJesus

2 жыл бұрын

Why do you choose to make a fool of yourself?

@flynncremin6347

2 жыл бұрын

You’re a strange geeza, leave him alone. You keep coming back you fool

@jeremybompat1018

2 жыл бұрын

You know just cuz you are a body builder doesnt mean your better than everybody else you shit stain

mon you could bar and just hit bottom 4 strings,and you strike and release,always down for the chop ,down and up sometimes,always up for ska,u better play some rancheras dummy

Bob Marley major strength was in songwriting; not guitar playing.The title for your video is mis-leading. How to play reggae would be more appropriate. Although Bob Marley played a major role in popularizing reggae (AND he is NOT the first Jamaican artist to do so) outside of Jamaica there is no such thing as a "Bob Marley style of reggae" BECAUSE it's the lead guitarists in the wailers band (Junior marvin, Al Anderson, Earl "Chinna Smith etc) along with the bass player Aston "Family Man" Barrett who are responsible for the sweet melodious riffs that you hear in Bob Marley songs. Listen to the song "It Hurts To Be Alone" and what stands out in the song is NOT Bob's singing but the melodious solo playing of the GREAT Jamaican Jazz guitarist Ernie Ranglin. Bob Marley major strength was in songwriting; not guitar playing.

@JohnJesus

4 жыл бұрын

No, the title is exactly what I explain in the video: How Bob Marley Played Rhythm Guitar (how to play reggae rhythm guitar LIKE Bob Marley). I never said it was the ONLY way to play reggae, nor that Bob was the greatest guitarist.... The video is NOT about "how to play reggae" either. It SPECIFICALY is about how Bob Marley played the chords on the guitar. So, sorry, but the title is exact.

@frankieoliver2127

4 жыл бұрын

You need to get a life !!!! The man has just showed and explained Bob Marley’s guitar playing technique perfectly.

@afrikan1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankieoliver2127 The truth hurts but it's still the TRUTH.

@frankieoliver2127

4 жыл бұрын

lancelot wilson what’s the truth ?

@afrikan1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankieoliver2127 It's NOT an opinion. DO your proper research!!!!

Nobody ever try to play the wailers music, leave it alone you'll only ruin it, purists like me will only cringe, it's well known in the true reggae community to never try to do the wailers music it's sacred ffs

@JohnJesus

2 жыл бұрын

I am not playing "The Wailers music" here - I am teaching how Bob played the chords. Did you read the title? Calling yourself a purist and having this attitude just says you are close minded, and that you don't really play music, because if you did you would not say such things... Playing someone's music is the greatest complement you can give that artist. It means you listened to it, that you put in the time and made the effort to learn, and that you are willing to expose yourself through that song. Obviously no one will sound like Bob and not even the current Wailers band have the same exact vibe = different musicians, different spirits, different expressions. No one is trying to be better than Bob - we are honouring him, showing we appreciate him and his music by playing it.

@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnJesus yeh the currant wailers bands don't have the same vibe that's because 99 percent of the two wailers bands are not them, and I didn't say that you were playing the wailers music I said never play it just for people who get the idea to play it, look at it this way what if some group played a bob Marley song and people think that it's better than bob Marley and the wailers, do you think they would like that? Like if someone looked a bit like Bruce Lee and could do all the moves and made a while bunch of movies and was better than Bruce Lee nobody would want to watch Bruce Lee movies anymore, so as a mark of respect it's good to leave their work alone it's like a grave like a shrine, it's sacred, you understand , your guitar strumming sounds very much like early wailers guitar strumming, not so much like bobs style , he just went chick chick chick, petter went chicka chicka chicka, and so did the other 4 wailers lead guitarist, Donald, Kinsey, Earl cyhna smith, Al Anderson and junior marvin, just to keep the signature style going,

@ethanyu9579

2 жыл бұрын

@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4 you're so cringe

@simonwinter8839

2 жыл бұрын

Lord Jesus, Mr.Jesus you is off di ridim !!

@lamper2

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnJesus this guy is PURE ASS!

Excellent