Shakespeares life and work, sway presentation, handouts, decorating billboard short description. This lesson uses video segments from the pbs series shakespeare uncovered to explore the nature of war and its impact on those who fight it particularly the title character of william shakespeares history play henry v. Robbie shakespeare black uhuru, sly and robbie, gregory issacs, cutty. Shakespeare is difficult reading for the novice and the professionallets build some skills to tackle the bards language with elegance and ease. Robert robbie shakespeare born 27 september 1953 is a jamaican bass guitarist and record producer, best known as the one half of the reggae rhythm section and production duo sly and robbie, with drummer sly dunbar. Mar 28, 2019 students often find the works of shakespeare intimidating, but with this collection of free lesson plans about the bards plays, teachers can make the subject matter easier for kids to digest. Regarded as one of the most influential reggae bassists, shakespeare is also known for his creative use of electronics and production effects units. And hes still hitting it hard in the 70s and 80s, lowell sly dunbar and bassist robbie shakespeare, aka the riddim twins, did as much to popularize reggae as other giants of the genre, such as bob marley, peter tosh, gregory isaacs, burning spear, the aggrovators, black uhuru, and third. It is a style that combines calypso or mento jazz and rb. Written by smokey robinson and ronald white the miracles more robbie shakespeare comments 2. Aston family man barrett who played with bob marley and robbie shakespeare who played with peter tosh are two giants of reggae bass. Regarded as one of the most influential reggae bassists, shakespeare is also known for his creative use of electronics and.
Students will learn about and discuss his personal life, plays, and other influential work before applying. This gives you a deep tone great for reggae, walking style bass lines and keyboard bass lines in conjunction with a pedal. More sinead oconnor more robbie shakespeare more from the album throw down your arms comments 0. Bush doctor is the third studio album by jamaican reggae singer peter tosh. Reggae bass guitar can be a deceptively challenging style of music to play. Raised in east kingston, his family home was a rehearsal and hangout spot for a variety of upcoming musicians and singers. Sinead oconnor y mas gan bass transcription robbie. Though he rocks a fender jazz bass today, he made that violin bass pop like a modern fivestring. Grace jones pull up to the bumper bass transcription. In this educational resource page you will find lesson plans and teaching tips about english learn about playwright, drama, comedies, tragedies, history, hamlet, othello, macbeth, lear, romeand juilet, midsummer night, and theaters.
I got my 2nd generation prs bass new, but shop worn for 800, and while i feel like the list price of 2200 was way too much, it was a bargain at 800. Robbie shakespeare, from sly and robbie, play to an appreciative audience on day two of bluesfest friday, july 4, 2014 at lebreton flats, ottawa. Bass is certainly a center point to this genre but reggae bass playing was not always the reggae bass playing we now think of it as. Basically you gently rest the palm of your plucking hand against the strings and pluck the string with your thumb. Sly dunbar and bassist robbie shakespeare are the bestknown reggae rhythm section in the world. Mar 10, 2014 devon pattyhead bradshaw, veteran reggae bass master from portland, jamaica. In the musical universe, bill laswell has cultivated an extraordinary body of work that pretty much breaks the mold. But if you see a 14line iambic pentameter poem in shakespeareantype language. Teach students about the life of william shakespeare using this videobased lesson plan. The album features mick jagger as guest vocalist on one song, while keith richards plays guitar on two tracks. Learning bass lines to songs has got the following benefits to bass players. How to get that aston barretbob marley deep bass sound.
When it comes to reggae bass playing, no one comes close to having the influence of robbie shakespeare. His reggae bass sound can be found by trying to replicate the upright jazz sound. Lesson plan shakespeare in my classroom nevena stoilkov, english teacher at primary school milisav nikolic, bozevac, serbia key words. I recently saw robbie w sly of course and his system as usual was quite simple. Use these resources to devise workshop ideas and classroom activities specially designed for teachers looking to breathe new life into shakespeares plays. I found the avalon u5 and demeter tube direct to be the best bets for my bass. They then practise question formation and speaking with an informationgap reading activity about. Shakespeare is known to dancehallreggae fans as half of sly and robbie, the formidable riddim twins that also includes drummer sly dunbar. Creative process one pop studio with sly dunbar, chinna smith, chris meredith and robbie lynn duration. Thats according to the famed drum and bass duo themselves. This is the first in a series of lessons whose focus is on constructing bass lines.
Robert robbie shakespeare born 27 september 1953 is a jamaican bass guitarist and. What makes this unit common core aligned is the fact that students will have to negotiate some dense. Pro bassists use technique functionally to get musical results, rather than trying to satisfy an arbitrary conception of how they should play. In this lesson you will learn a common major triad pattern. More than 470 free transcriptions for bass and other instruments on basslessons.
This groove fits over a minor chord, which is common to reggae music. There are rules, and then there are exceptions to those rules. To avoid the appearance of redirect spam, linked content i. Original by isreal vibration more sinead oconnor more robbie shakespeare more from the album throw down your arms comments 0. Like the other musicians on this list, robbie found the melodic crispness of the bass to be a strength.
He has played with peter tosh and bob marley, so he knows a lot about reggae guitar. Tenth grade lesson how to read shakespeare like a pro day 1. Thumb and palm mute technique for bass guitar playalong. Aug 16, 2016 by sly and robbie 403 views, added to favorites 10 times its not been tabbed yet. Lesson plan shakespeare topic william shakespeare aims to learn about shakespeare to practise reading skills to practise question formation to develop speaking skills age group 12 adult level b1 b2 time 60 minutes materials 1. Nov 27, 2011 extremely detailed powerpoint presentation covering shakespeare s context, life in london, life in london and his plays. In this lesson, learners are introduced to shakespeare as the topic for the lesson and pool the knowledge that they already have about him with a mind map and quiz activities. Sinead oconnor prophet has arise bass transcription. Aston barrett taught robbie shakespeare how to play the reggae bass.
Theyve played together on thousands of recordings for a huge range of reggae artists. Peter tosh and mick jagger walk and dont look back. One cant really write about sly dunbar, however, without also writing about longtime friend and musical cohort, bass player robbie shakespeare aka robbie basspeare. Good sounding bass, good playing technique, for starters. Pro bass players use the techniques that work for them.
He toured with burning spear throughout the 80s and in the 90s his band axx of jahpostles toured with garnett silk. From the funkiest bass grooves to the most lyrical bass solos, from the 50s up until 2020. Around 1960 a style of music called ska was created in jamaica. The abyssinians y mas gan more sinead oconnor more robbie shakespeare more from the album throw down your arms comments 0. How to play reggae style grooves on the bass guitar dummies. From the album jah victory, the bass on this album is played by wellknown reggae bassist robbie shakespeare. To act like im capable of any consistent structure or focus during.
Robbie shakespeare anchors the track with a commanding mantra of a bass line. These are movable triad patterns and by just playing the same pattern at other frets you will change keys. Robbie bassspeare shakespeare great song, very simple. Reggae bass transcriptions of robbie shakespeare bass transcriptions of mike watt of the minutemen bass transcription of the barney miller theme some of the more fun and funky basslines, ive played over the years, transcribed to share out for educational use only not for sale. Well, first of all, take everything im about to say with a huge grain of salt. King tubby flag dub bass transcription robbie shakespeare. Robbie shakespeare and sly dunbar are widely considered the premier bass drum combination of reggae. Reggae ist fur uns bassisteninnen eine art paradies. You can learn more about them in our lesson on shakespeares sonnets. Bass tabs of songs by sly and robbie 1 bass tab including jah jah children dub. Beyond the twelfth fret discussion following on from the suggestion last week, welcome to the first in a series of discussions on various aspects of bass playing, where newcomers can learn a little and more seasoned players can share their advice. Often when playing with a guitar or keyboard player you can follow the chords they play. Hes also used a paul reed smith bass quite a bit as i understand it. Hear the miracle of neodymium speakers by playing through this cabinet.
Traditional ska songs often feature a walking bass movement in contrast to the upbeats played by the chordal instruments. Reggae wouldnt be the same without the great contributions of robbie shakespeare usually with sly dunbar on drums. Plan your 60minute lesson in english language arts or literature with helpful tips from jessica keigan. Robbie shakespeare biography, albums, streaming links. Sly dunbar and robbie shakespeare are the most famous jamaican rhythm section of all time, and there are at least 200,000 reasons why. As one half of the riddim twins, a duo that he shares with drummer sly dunbar, shakespeare has played on a very long list of albums.
I think hed sound like robbie shakespeare pretty much no matter what bass. I have included the varations on the bass which are very except the final chorus varation. The main series of lessons presumes a small but nonzero amount of. Like its brother the ta501, this unit gives you mutetotune and eq bypass control using an optional footswitch. Thats probably about as far from a modern 5string as you can get.
The term reggae bass has become something of a catchall phrase to describe any sort of bass playing to music that comes from the caribbean, missing the point that there were many earlier incarnations and. If you see mistakes, and there may be many, please email. Bass tablature for what a fool believes by doobie brothers. Our premium tube preamp head features tube warmth and clarity at the same time. He infuses his heavy motown and stax influence into his reggae bass lines and provides not just the perfect deeply centered rhythm, but also an interesting harmonic line in his parts. The standard 104hf is a leader in its field due to its sound, power and portability. This lesson may be useful as an introductory lesson on shakespeare. Bill laswell says when he plays up at his studio he uses one of laswells old pbasses with flatwounds. He slides to the twelth fret every once in a while and that tabbed, so play around with it. The standard 104hf is one of our most popular cabinets and, for many players, it sets a new standard for 4x10s. To generate interest and to allay the usual groans that commence once we start reading shakespeare s othello, i want students to understand the reasoning why shakespeare is still incorporated in english curricula some 400 years after his death. Reggae bass lesson alpha blondy jerusalem aston barrett duration. This style of music is characterized by upbeats or afterbeats as they are often called played by the piano and guitar. I saw robbie shakespeare in the late 70s playing a hofner beatle bass with peter tosh.
The over dubs by robbie add spice and flavours to an already bubbling riddim. Reggae rhythm guitar lesson how to play reggae on guitar. The ta 503 also boasts our most flexible eq, with fourband semiparametric tone control as well as our signature vle and vpf filters. Sly dunbar, then drumming for skin flesh and bones, and robbie shakespeare, playing bass and guitar with the aggrovators, discovered they had the same ideas about music in general both are fans of motown, stax records, the philly sound, and country music, in addition to jamaican record labels studio one and treasure isle, and reggae production in particular.
Jointly, theyve been crowned the riddim twins, and with good reason. The reggae bass sound is so distinct, that finding the best reggae bass becomes a very easy task. He was playing a fender mim jazz bass throught 2 stacks of 6 x 10 mark bass speakers and mark bass ampnot sure of the model on the amp. Besides playing on dozens of records together, both were members of peter toshs band in the late 1970s.
Aston family man barrett who played with bob marley and robbie shakespeare. Students learn about shakespeares life and work through sway presentation, videos, and photos. Modern bassists, such as pnut of the group 311, also play this style to perfection. May 30, 2011 introduce students to shakespeare in a fun and active way by kinaesthetic activities and interesting fun facts about his life and themes of his work. Look at the bass the top musicians use and you will get the answer. Robbie s accomplishments as a reggae bass player are second to none really, when you think about it. In other words, its the arrangement that allows the bass to sound that full. Theres a bass guitar technique called thumb and palm mute.
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