![]() 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. ![]() 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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