![]() Not only is this a gorgeous kit in terms of the raw recordings, but it also features a tasty spring reverb channel - a ubiquitous drums bus auxiliary in classic reggae. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to program the one drop, as well as two variations on it.Īs ever, getting the right drum sound is a must if you want to represent the genre faithfully, and rather than work up an old-school reggae kit from scratch, we’ve gone straight for Toontrack’s excellent Reggae EZX, running in EZdrummer 2. ![]() The rhythm itself is beautifully simple in its structure: the kick drum that should arrive on the first beat of a half-time groove is ‘dropped’, moving to the third beat instead, where it sits under the snare or sidestick, bringing a lazy, ‘false offbeat’ emphasis to the track. You can check out a thoroughly representative example of it in the Wailers’ helpfully named track One Drop, from the 1979 album Survival. Here’s what you get with ‘Jammin Reggae Drum Loops V1’: 129 Loops in (Acidized) WAV file format. Although not the only rhythm used in reggae, the one drop is probably the one most people hear in their heads when they think of the genre.
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