Get the sheet music here: bit.ly/2F4K1hg Subscribe to my channel here: bit.ly/2AyH1Fb Reggae drumming is, for me, one of the funnest drumming styles to learn. Reggae fills are very different from pop and rock fills and will challenge you. In this lesson are some fun reggae fills from popular reggae songs. Here's some more free reggae drum lessons I have: 3 Reggae Drum Beats Every Drummer Should Know: ruclips.net/video/oYRpsXxN4Q4/видео.html 5 Essential Reggae Drum Fills Every Drummer Should Know: ruclips.net/video/EPslcLneAjc/видео.html 3 Reggae Drum Beats You Should Learn: ruclips.net/video/O5Mk73wKZEU/видео.html How to play the One Drop: ruclips.net/video/9nF0EniuSaM/видео.html Leave a comment below and let me know which reggae drum fill is your favorite!
Gotta congratulate you on not only knowing your stuff, you know the artists' drummers, too. I'd be surprised if most people know Sly & Robbie, but you know the drummer for the Mighty Diamonds, you deserve a thumbs up for that alone
Thanks! That was very helpful. I drum mostly pop, rock and punk, but had to come up with a reggae beat for the chorus in a new song in my band. I got it now!
Great info. I've recently joined a Reggae band and am working on playing the style authentically on the drums. This video adds to my new knowledge! Thanks!
Very well done! I love that the fills are so simple and yet authentic and especially that you were specific as to where these fills could be heard on notable recordings and who played them. I have been a reggae fan since I first heard Clapton's "I Shot The Sheriff" -- which I saw him play live in 1975 and then also saw Bob Marley play it live in 1978. ...And I also saw Carlton Barrett as Marley's drummer in 1978... I just signed up for your podcast yesterday. Keep up the great work!
Thanks to your lesson and my actual effort to practice I've got a gig in a reggae band! After years of playing metal I'd never think that is possible, I'm very thankful! Have you posted lesson about hi hat licks in reggae drumming? Sometimes I feel that drumming in reggae is a "story about hi-hat" and I hear quite advanced patterns on classic records yet cannot replicate that.
Love these! Big fan of Black Uhuru & Gregory Isaacs. Love the fill intro in Black Uhurus Utterance. The Sensi intro & groove are classics. The Night Nurse Gregory album is so good too 👌🏽
The "night nurse" album was produced by flabba holt and style Scott, who were the bass and drums for the roots radics and dub syndicate as well as playing on many many reggae hits by many artists like yellowman and Barrington levy. Just a little shout out to the musicians. Blessings
@@StephenTaylorDrums ayyy nice one man. Really digging in to the punk and reggae bits, gone from zero last week to some nice progression, big up yourself!
Hey Stephen I like your looks at Reggae drumming. I am a Jamaican. I believe you could use a different snare that's just a personal preference. I wonder if you ever thought of exploring other Jamaican rhythms like ska, rocksteady, mento, dancehall and put a score to it. I started learning about sheet music a few years ago. It's great to see this rhythm being placed on a score.
Sinsemilla is my favorites song by Black Urhu and it is also my favorite kind of trees. I don't smoke if it have seeds because, "I got a stalk of sinsemilla growing in backyard." We pronounce it SEN-SEE-ME-LIA but it's Spanish for without seeds so we could be getting wrong too.
Great post. These fills have such a beautiful vibe! Could you look at the groove for "All You Zombies" by The Hooters? It feels like a one-drop, but having a hard time getting the hi hat right. Really great groove that hits the spot between chill and energetic.
I tend to think of those 32nds as 'open flams'. I think there's a lot of fills mileage just in opening and closing the flams in reggae fills.. For example, you can open those flams up so wide in a 12/8 steppers that you end up playing single threes pretty much as 16ths (or 32nds etc.) against the feel, or close them up so tight they almost sound like a drag if you play them behind another note... i love flams in reggae!
I did; I wanted MORE vocab. Let me see what I can come up with, mining that whole other universe. One of my favourites? A lot of those flammed fills from Carly Barrett, man, like on the original Satisfy My Soul. Sly Dunbar, too. And then there's everything that Stewart Copeland did, because he had unique voicings. There's too many to list, haha!
Nice as usual. Curious of your knowledge of ska/skank styles, similar to the reggae but more upbeat. Would love to see some of that. Cheers, Happy New Year.
For sure...the ska beat (original) actually came before the one drop. Really cool history if you look at it all. I was heavy in to the third wave ska during high school and it's an area I'm going back and digging in to pretty deeply. Such a cool heritage.
Any chance of breaking down the most famous reggae fill of all time..? It's the one Carlton Barrett uses all the time in a lot of Bob marley and the Wailers songs but for reference its at the beginning of Get Up Stand Up. I can do it but not sure if its exactly right, would love to see how you'd do it
Pretty sure it was Sly that did I need a Roof. Listen to the styling. I'm a big Channel One fan and he was the resident drummer but they use other as well. At 10:06 is also a signature style of Sly on the hht. He still uses that hht pattern to this day.
Thanks for putting this together. I’m pretty sure that was Sly Dunbar playing on “Soul Rebel” on the Time Will Tell album. I’m not 100% sure the intro for Buffalo Soldier is correct. Of course, Carlton Barrett had that super tight Supraphonic snare drum sound, so maybe that’s throwing me off.
Cool lesson. Im recording my drums tomorrow for an EP, and one of the songs has a bridge that consists of us playing a reggea beat, so this lesson can come in handy. Could you do some stuff on Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience)? Not on note for note fills per se, but more his whole style during live versions of songs. He had a very cool and "chaotic" way of playing. Like Hendrix had on guitar.
i don't mean to be too critical but you really need to have some kind of other instrument accompaniment to solidify the context. I believe you are correct about Style Scott being the drummer on the Isaacs tune. Roots Radics was a top studio band in Jamaica at that time. My only suggestion is to turn the stick with the fat end away from the snare when doing cross stick. This is what all the drummers I have worked with, including Sly and Grennan, do.
soO Right its that easy to play people do miss the actual feel of the style wich make's it even harder to play its all about the feel Rastaluv Brutha and yes The police!!
Lol, Tim agrees. we're currently working on another vocal mic situation. The lav mic just ain't cuttin' it anymore. So, hang on to your ear drums...help is on the way (this is literally a daily conversation that Tim brings up)
Sinsemilia is one of many jamaican words for marijuana, but in this special case it’s the title of a song by Black Uhuru from their 1980 album of the same title.
Might be an arsehole comment, so sorry in advance, but I’m not sure of the purpose of including #4 in a video lesson. Like it’s a kick followed by a snare. Anyone could do it or come up with it, I’m not sure where the learning is. Anyways I enjoyed #1 and will be learning it, so thanks
Black Uhuru was so ambivalent: greatest drummer, greatest bass, great guitars, absolutely awsome backing vocals but a poor small ranged singer and weak melodies and song text.
Mate, if you say get the sheet music here, put the sheet music there. OK you can have my email, but 5 layers of marketing crap and still no sheet music, completely pointless and irritating.
I'm sorry you didn't receive the sheet music...not at all my intention. We have had some issues with our system following up. If you could please email Grant at help@stephensdrumshed.com and let him know what sheet music you did not receive, he'll get that to you asap. In the meantime, we are working on fixing the issue. Thanks!
I feel so sorry for anyone who is using a video like this to learn "reggae" drums instead of just listening to great reggae music and absorbing it for themselves from the master drummers with the real authentic feel...not this wannabe "feel".
Couldn't agree more. You should listen as much as possible to any style you want to learn. Thanks for checking out the video and taking the time to comment!
Stephen is a nice, polite guy. Me, not so much. So you can shove your rude, uncalled for comment where the sun don't shine. This is a basic tutorial video, not an in depth study in reggae drumming. Lighten up. Smoke some weed if you need to. After all, it's reggae we're talking about.
Stephen, you are a good drummer and good teacher but if your open to suggestions you really need to find a way to cut down on the unnecessary long winded talking in your videos. You give the impression you like to hear yourself talk.
Get the sheet music here: bit.ly/2F4K1hg
Subscribe to my channel here: bit.ly/2AyH1Fb
Reggae drumming is, for me, one of the funnest drumming styles to learn. Reggae fills are very different from pop and rock fills and will challenge you. In this lesson are some fun reggae fills from popular reggae songs.
Here's some more free reggae drum lessons I have:
3 Reggae Drum Beats Every Drummer Should Know: ruclips.net/video/oYRpsXxN4Q4/видео.html
5 Essential Reggae Drum Fills Every Drummer Should Know: ruclips.net/video/EPslcLneAjc/видео.html
3 Reggae Drum Beats You Should Learn: ruclips.net/video/O5Mk73wKZEU/видео.html
How to play the One Drop: ruclips.net/video/9nF0EniuSaM/видео.html
Leave a comment below and let me know which reggae drum fill is your favorite!
From Jamaica and learning new reggae fills and, I love this video keep it up.
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Gotta congratulate you on not only knowing your stuff, you know the artists' drummers, too. I'd be surprised if most people know Sly & Robbie, but you know the drummer for the Mighty Diamonds, you deserve a thumbs up for that alone
Thank you. I think we miss out on SO MUCH if we just learn notes. Music is history. It’s not just notes.
@@StephenTaylorDrums You're right, of course. You gotta dance this shit, too. Take it easy
'Real Cool Mr Stephen'.
Thanks! That was very helpful. I drum mostly pop, rock and punk, but had to come up with a reggae beat for the chorus in a new song in my band. I got it now!
Great video, I repeatably come back here for inspiration
dude, i literally just joined a rocksteady band like 3 weeks ago. you're a genius. Subbed.
DEREK at KONG CAVE RECORDING lol, I’m jealous! Congrats on the gig. And glad to have you hanging around!
Great info. I've recently joined a Reggae band and am working on playing the style authentically on the drums. This video adds to my new knowledge! Thanks!
I keep coming back to your videos, I like the way you teach! Easy to listen. Thanks!
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Good vibes
Very well done! I love that the fills are so simple and yet authentic and especially that you were specific as to where these fills could be heard on notable recordings and who played them. I have been a reggae fan since I first heard Clapton's "I Shot The Sheriff" -- which I saw him play live in 1975 and then also saw Bob Marley play it live in 1978. ...And I also saw Carlton Barrett as Marley's drummer in 1978... I just signed up for your podcast yesterday. Keep up the great work!
Thanks to your lesson and my actual effort to practice I've got a gig in a reggae band! After years of playing metal I'd never think that is possible, I'm very thankful! Have you posted lesson about hi hat licks in reggae drumming? Sometimes I feel that drumming in reggae is a "story about hi-hat" and I hear quite advanced patterns on classic records yet cannot replicate that.
Right up my alley!
Amazing!! Give thankss
I love drums!
Thanks! Giving me some great ideas.
Cooooool!😉😉😉
Thank you so much, I will try.
thank you! very helpful
Thank you.
GOOD JOB
This video is gooold man!
So glad it helped!
Pretty cool pretty cool pretty neat pretty neat
Love these! Big fan of Black Uhuru & Gregory Isaacs. Love the fill intro in Black Uhurus Utterance. The Sensi intro & groove are classics. The Night Nurse Gregory album is so good too 👌🏽
Night Nurse is a killer album...and there are so many Black Uhuru cuts that I dig
The "night nurse" album was produced by flabba holt and style Scott, who were the bass and drums for the roots radics and dub syndicate as well as playing on many many reggae hits by many artists like yellowman and Barrington levy. Just a little shout out to the musicians. Blessings
Great........... One word explanation......thank you very much
youve become my first ever drum teacher, love your approach man, thankyou!
Honored to be your first my friend!
@@StephenTaylorDrums ayyy nice one man. Really digging in to the punk and reggae bits, gone from zero last week to some nice progression, big up yourself!
Reggae fills are so tasty
Nice Work...Bless Up!
Muy buenos fills maestro.Excelentes
Number three is also the intro fill to "rolling down," by Dennis Brown, probably my favorite song of all time.
Interesting ❤
awesome !!!
Great stuff. Could you do a video on some Leroy “Horsemouth “ Wallace grooves and fills? Thanks 🙏
Great video.
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SIN-SEH-MEE-JAH
Hey Stephen I like your looks at Reggae drumming. I am a Jamaican. I believe you could use a different snare that's just a personal preference. I wonder if you ever thought of exploring other Jamaican rhythms like ska, rocksteady, mento, dancehall and put a score to it. I started learning about sheet music a few years ago. It's great to see this rhythm being placed on a score.
Thanks
Love your lessons! Been wanting to explore reggae for some time, now I have a good spring board to launch from.
Thanks man!
Love it 👍🏿
I love the starting
Awesome!
Thanks Rick!
@@StephenTaylorDrums Do you have any hand drumming vids (congas, bongos, etc), or is that not something you ever do?
I love your passion bro keep up the good work!
I like how you Explain to listen that’s huge thing in garage band playing. Your awesome man..
The first time I used that third one was after a trash can ending to a song to signal the final end note. Haha. Great lesson as always!!
Fill #1 is my favorite
5 DANGDUT fills
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Your thoughts on the drum intro
Reggae on m8, nice lesson Stephen :))))
Sinsemilla is my favorites song by Black Urhu and it is also my favorite kind of trees. I don't smoke if it have seeds because, "I got a stalk of sinsemilla growing in backyard."
We pronounce it SEN-SEE-ME-LIA but it's Spanish for without seeds so we could be getting wrong too.
can you show more Carly Barrett fills, rolls?...One love --you've got great style and vibez
Does anyone know who played drums on Sugar Minott - Good thing Going? I think it's some of the most tasty fills.
Great post. These fills have such a beautiful vibe!
Could you look at the groove for "All You Zombies" by The Hooters? It feels like a one-drop, but having a hard time getting the hi hat right. Really great groove that hits the spot between chill and energetic.
I would love a Jeff Porcaro video, whether it be a beat or fill video
id love to see maybe Child's Anthem, I'll Supply The Love, and Hydra
Who would have though open flams we’re so funky!
Stumbled across your videos. Great stuff. What are those drum mics?
I tend to think of those 32nds as 'open flams'. I think there's a lot of fills mileage just in opening and closing the flams in reggae fills.. For example, you can open those flams up so wide in a 12/8 steppers that you end up playing single threes pretty much as 16ths (or 32nds etc.) against the feel, or close them up so tight they almost sound like a drag if you play them behind another note...
i love flams in reggae!
Holy moly, I have never been this early to any video
w00die00 congratulations here’s a cookie. . 🍪
💪 💪 💪 Boom!
That sound great! Thanks for sharing! Practicing reggae it's like going to the beach with the kit!
Nice, now do a video on reggae fills that DO NOT end in crashing :)
Check out fills 2, 3, and 5 in this lesson. They don't end in crashes. Just 1 and 4 do.
I did; I wanted MORE vocab. Let me see what I can come up with, mining that whole other universe. One of my favourites? A lot of those flammed fills from Carly Barrett, man, like on the original Satisfy My Soul. Sly Dunbar, too. And then there's everything that Stewart Copeland did, because he had unique voicings. There's too many to list, haha!
Nice as usual. Curious of your knowledge of ska/skank styles, similar to the reggae but more upbeat. Would love to see some of that. Cheers, Happy New Year.
For sure...the ska beat (original) actually came before the one drop. Really cool history if you look at it all. I was heavy in to the third wave ska during high school and it's an area I'm going back and digging in to pretty deeply. Such a cool heritage.
I bet you could mix in some 6/8 and 3/4 jazz fills too.
Any chance of breaking down the most famous reggae fill of all time..? It's the one Carlton Barrett uses all the time in a lot of Bob marley and the Wailers songs but for reference its at the beginning of Get Up Stand Up. I can do it but not sure if its exactly right, would love to see how you'd do it
I'm with you. Not sure if he plays it as Double strokes or singles. I've been practicing both.
Thanks for the basic grooves !! So many ads you can't even concentrate on a lesson without being interrupted by 10 ads!!
man, love those k's, 1000 bucks😂
A song right up my ally. I'm guessing, as a musician, you can pronounce it lol. It means "without seed"
It's a good lesson...snare is to rocky to really get a good sense of it....teatowel?
Pretty sure it was Sly that did I need a Roof. Listen to the styling. I'm a big Channel One fan and he was the resident drummer but they use other as well. At 10:06 is also a signature style of Sly on the hht. He still uses that hht pattern to this day.
Thanks for putting this together.
I’m pretty sure that was Sly Dunbar playing on “Soul Rebel” on the Time Will Tell album.
I’m not 100% sure the intro for Buffalo Soldier is correct. Of course, Carlton Barrett had that super tight Supraphonic snare drum sound, so maybe that’s throwing me off.
Keep it up
Could be useful to give tips on using crash on 1 - if and when it can be occasionally appropriate without ruining the reggae stylistics.
Bag o' doo-doo (#1) deserves a place up with the Pat Boone Debbie Boone.
Reggae itself, is much more exciting than this!
You're not very smart lol. It's instruction, not a performance.
Great examples….love Black Uhuru 🔥 awesome video!
Cool lesson. Im recording my drums tomorrow for an EP, and one of the songs has a bridge that consists of us playing a reggea beat, so this lesson can come in handy.
Could you do some stuff on Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience)? Not on note for note fills per se, but more his whole style during live versions of songs. He had a very cool and "chaotic" way of playing. Like Hendrix had on guitar.
Glad it helped...and I'll see what I can do!
i don't mean to be too critical but you really need to have some kind of other instrument accompaniment to solidify the context. I believe you are correct about Style Scott being the drummer on the Isaacs tune. Roots Radics was a top studio band in Jamaica at that time. My only suggestion is to turn the stick with the fat end away from the snare when doing cross stick. This is what all the drummers I have worked with, including Sly and Grennan, do.
soO Right its that easy to play people do miss the actual feel of the style wich make's it even harder to play its all about the feel Rastaluv Brutha and yes The police!!
12.45 the name song ?
Are you rocking 3 floor toms??
Sin semilla (semiJAH is the pronunciation) which means : seedless. It's a Mexican strain of weed.
It's any unpollinated bud. Without seed, horny females.
Brother, you need to scoop those highs coming out of your shirt mic. They're cutting into my eardrums haha. Great lesson tho as always ❤🖤❤
Lol, Tim agrees. we're currently working on another vocal mic situation. The lav mic just ain't cuttin' it anymore. So, hang on to your ear drums...help is on the way (this is literally a daily conversation that Tim brings up)
The Elder Wizard strikes again with us not knowing 🧙🏼♂️
What's sinsemilla?
Sinsemilia is one of many jamaican words for marijuana, but in this special case it’s the title of a song by Black Uhuru from their 1980 album of the same title.
Sensimilla is flower from a non pollinated female ganja plant. It has no seeds, and higher concentration of oils.
sin-see-mee-yah
Did you mention Copeland just to piss him off lol
I practice too much my drum pad have a hole 🤔🙃🤯😳
Your rack tom's got a rather weird frequency...almost killed my speakers. ;-)
Nice lessons! But you re speaking soooooo much. I'm just waiting when you are going to start. Video could be much more shorter.
Sir ! Why do you pull your shirt every now and then in the video ?
"Sensi-miya" is how I've always heard it pronounced.
Might be an arsehole comment, so sorry in advance, but I’m not sure of the purpose of including #4 in a video lesson. Like it’s a kick followed by a snare. Anyone could do it or come up with it, I’m not sure where the learning is. Anyways I enjoyed #1 and will be learning it, so thanks
Black Uhuru was so ambivalent: greatest drummer, greatest bass, great guitars, absolutely awsome backing vocals but a poor small ranged singer and weak melodies and song text.
Mate, if you say get the sheet music here, put the sheet music there. OK you can have my email, but 5 layers of marketing crap and still no sheet music, completely pointless and irritating.
I'm sorry you didn't receive the sheet music...not at all my intention. We have had some issues with our system following up. If you could please email Grant at help@stephensdrumshed.com and let him know what sheet music you did not receive, he'll get that to you asap. In the meantime, we are working on fixing the issue. Thanks!
I feel so sorry for anyone who is using a video like this to learn "reggae" drums instead of just listening to great reggae music and absorbing it for themselves from the master drummers with the real authentic feel...not this wannabe "feel".
Couldn't agree more. You should listen as much as possible to any style you want to learn. Thanks for checking out the video and taking the time to comment!
Stephen is a nice, polite guy. Me, not so much. So you can shove your rude, uncalled for comment where the sun don't shine. This is a basic tutorial video, not an in depth study in reggae drumming. Lighten up. Smoke some weed if you need to. After all, it's reggae we're talking about.
@@harisk1 Fr bro. That comment was uncalled for. This video was very informative and he actually gave us the videos/source to hear it ourselves.
Stephen, you are a good drummer and good teacher but if your open to suggestions you really need to find a way to cut down on the unnecessary long winded talking in your videos. You give the impression you like to hear yourself talk.
Watch my more recent videos. This one is pretty old. I've tightened up my delivery over the years. Thanks!
You don not know how to pronounce sensimillia ? B S ! Get a K china , those sound great and match your other cymbals .
Why is the hat always so low on these reggae drum vids?
8:29 Maybe Tom 2 then Tom 3? Works both ways, depending on the bass notes.
Cool. But a lot lot lot of blablablabla.
Two ads and two mins of shit before the drums begin
Too much talking
no offense but this isnt roots reggae
You takl too much
Too much talking get on with the job