How to play reggae guitar like... Stevie Wonder?

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Guitar Techniques/ACM (Jon Bishop), Fri 23 Oct 2009, 10:52 am UTC

Example: Stevie Wonder-style reggae… continued

[Verse 2 - Bars 25-32] In the skank section, play the chords staccato by lifting the pressure off your fretting hand as you hit the strings with the pick. In true reggae fashion the chords are fretted on the top three strings and played with a downstroke followed quickly by an upstroke.

[Chorus 2 - Bars 33-40] The skank rhythm playing gives way to the unison melody every four bars. The melody is the same as in Chorus 1.

[Unison Riff - Bars 41-44] A repeat of the first riff. If you think this is easy, record yourself and see if your rhythmic subdivisions 'groove' well!

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