Lee Scratch Perry Remake - Unit 34

The 3rd track we are creating is a reggae dub track. We will be using instruments and emulating effect used by Lee Scratch Perry on his track Blackboard Jungle Dub. This track was produced in a era before DAWs, digital Synthesisers & Plugins. This means all the instruments are real and any effects applied are from outboard effects units. 

18/05/18;

Today we began choosing instruments to use and created a starting point for the track. Although we are going record live instruments for most of the track we created a template of what we wanted it to sound like using guitar, bass, flute & drum samples/VSTs.

For the bass we wanted to emphasis the first beat of every bar so we kept it simple on the first

For the drums we used the 'One Drop Rhythm' style of playing. This gives our track the rhythm associated with the style of music we're recreating. We are going to replace the drums with live drums at a later point.

Off beat guitar chords play throughout the track and add a rhythmic element to it. We added these offbeat guitars to show the live guitarist how to play it.