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Ska stroke

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The ska stroke or ska upstroke, skank or bang, is a guitar strumming technique that is used mostly in the performance of ska, rocksteady, and reggae music. [1]

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Chop chord

In music, a chop chord is a "clipped backbeat".

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Ernest Ranglin

Ernest Ranglin OD (born 19 June 1932) is a Jamaican guitarist and composer who established his career while working as a session guitarist and music director for various Jamaican record labels including Studio One and Island Records.

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Fret

A fret is a raised element on the neck of a stringed instrument.

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Ghost note

In music, a ghost note is a musical note with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch when played.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guitar chord

In music, a guitar chord is a set of notes played on a guitar.

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Half-time (music)

In popular music, half-time is a type of meter and tempo that alters the rhythmic feel by essentially doubling the tempo resolution or metric division/level in comparison to common-time.

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Harmonic rhythm

In music theory, harmonic rhythm, also known as harmonic tempo is the rate at which the chords change (or progress) in a musical composition, in relation to the rate of notes.

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Mento

Mento is a style of Jamaican folk music that predates and has greatly influenced ska and reggae music.

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One drop rhythm

One drop rhythm is a reggae style drum beat.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rocksteady

Rocksteady is a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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Skank (dance)

Skanking is a form of dancing practiced in the ska, ska punk, hardcore punk, reggae, jump-up (a drum and bass subgenre) and other music scenes.

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Staccato

Staccato (Italian for "detached") is a form of musical articulation.

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Strum

In music, strumming is a way of playing a stringed instrument such as a guitar, ukulele, or mandolin.

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Time signature

The time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, or measure signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats (pulses) are to be contained in each measure (bar) and which note value is equivalent to one beat.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska_stroke

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