"Smile Out A Style" - Tribute to Lee "Scratch" Perry

[Geir]

Well done Ted.

This sounds fab. And the gun-like bamboo guitar sounds great here

Stellar vocals as well

[StephenM]

the guitar almost looks like a giant article of paraphanalia... very cool looking and sounding..

[Ferryman_1957]

Brilliant reggae vibe Ted and wonderful instrumentation. Great vocals as well and it all sounds great! Loving your lood.....

[Hook]

Love that crazy ass guitar...kinda looks like it grew right out of the ground like that. Very cool groove. I like reggae for a song and then I'm done for a while, this was an excellent way to meet my quota for the day.
Rock on!

[Hilary]

Crikey this is really well done!

[Pete C]

You've really captured that authentic reggae sound here..had to have a few listens to this as it's so enjoyable. Interesting to hear how you recorded it without a vocal reference - that's the way I do most of my tracks - but you certainly got into a groove !

Pete

[Ted]

I posted in General about how I found a lazy way to do a reggae "one drop" beat in GarageBand:

GarageBand for MacOS doesn't come with any reggae beats. But I kind of cheated it with my cover of "Smile Out A Style" without having to import MIDI or audio, or entirely program the beat myself. I was definitely feeling lazy.

At least one person was interested to know how I did it, so here's what I did: