Playing ska

[maz_lusus]

I noticed while reading the 'playing ska' lesson that they have an 'awkward' way to play it listed. The way i play the jab chords and rythem clicks is by muting with my right hand just before I hit the strings on the downstroke then play a 'normal' up stroke on the first 3 strings. I found it to be much easier especially if you are going for speed.

maz_lusus

[nate95366]

I'm not sure where the "lesson" you're talking about is, but the way you described it is just about exactly how I play ska...
I have seen others, though, that will mute with the left hand more (where as you and I prefer to use the right palm) and use some up and some down strums.

Good luck!

[Van_Halen]

Occasional downstrokes and lots of quick upstrokes with palm muting. I generally like playing the downward strum on the upbeat of the measure. It gives you a paw, pickapicka, paw, picka picka kinda sound...that probably just lost people.

[Mickey]

The lessons section can be found on our main site. Here's a link to them:
http://www.christianguitar.ws/lessons/lessons.htm
Also, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the lessons, feel free to contact Tyson at neohacker@techie.com. I'm sure he'd love the feedback.

IHL,
Mickey