Now, to cut a long story short, let’s lay out a conga rhythm something like this one:Įasy-peasy. You should be able to search some free samples online, or a free latin percussion VST somewhere. Unfortunately I’m not sure where FL furnishes these things, so I quickly scoured my samples and came up with a few, and slipped them into pads 18, 19 and 20 respectively in FPC. We want three samples: low, medium and high (yes, you only have two congas, but you can strike them in a different way to create a higher note). The first thing we want to do is find some conga samples, bongo samples will most likely do. My perception of a bossa nova rhythm comes from a drum setting on a keyboard I last owned 10 years ago or something. Before musical experts start writing in telling me this isn’t a real bossa nova rhythm, I know, it’s a reggae rhythm. Here we’re going to add some bossa nova flavours to our reggae rhythm. Take a listen to some of Jackie Mittoo’s or Rico Rodriguez’s work as examples.
Okay, lets work that in together with our beat, add a bass, and this is how it should end up sounding: Click here to listen to the full: Shuffle Reggae AudioĪ lot of the Jamaican greats borrowed from other styles of the time, including funk, blues and latin rhythms and melodies.
The first thing to do, in FLstudio, is go to Project General Settings and change the signature from 4/4 to 4/5, thus: That’s pretty normal in reggae and various other genres, but there’s also a lot of bouncy, shuffling reggae riddims out there and it’s a great skill to be able to produce this style. Remember, if you’re using a different DAW or even recording with instruments you can still follow this tutorial well enough as I’m going to be working mainly in the piano roll.Īlthough I recommend you start from the beginning if this is your first time here, here’s a quick-jump beats list:Īll of the rhythms we’ve looked at so far have been flat 4/4 signature beats. I’ll cheek in a bass at the end as well to give you an inkling of how the finished product might sound, but we won’t look at making the bass here.
I’ll run through a number of interesting and varied reggae beats step-by-step in FLstudio, adding in a skank – as that forms an integral part of the rhythm. The common beats – one drop, two drop and steppers – are all nice and lovely, and they function for the purpose of building a reggae riddim, but we may want to create a tune with a different style of beat, to add more flavour into our reggae pot. In this tutorial we’re going to look at a few alternate beats we can use with reggae. If you’re not completely comfortable with laying down the basic reggae beats, I recommend you run through that tutorial first. In Tutorial 1 we looked at how to lay down the basic beats for reggae in a DAW (FLstudio, Reason, Cubase, AcidPro etc).
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