What is Ska music?
Q: What is Ska music?
A: Ska is a popular music from Jamaica that began in the 1950s.
Q: How did Ska music evolve into Reggae?
A: Ska music that was first played at a slower tempo then became reggae in the late 1960s.
Q: What instruments are typically used in Ska music?
A: Ska music bands include singers, electric guitars, electric bass guitar, piano, organ, saxophone, trumpet, and trombone.
Q: What is the off-beat in Ska music?
A: In ska, the electric guitar and piano normally play short chords on the off-beat. If you go "one and two and three and four", the off-beat is the "and".
Q: What is "toasting" in Ska music?
A: A ska singer does a style of Jamaican singing called "toasting." When a singer is "toasting", they make sounds, repeat words, invent rhymes, and shout into the microphone.
Q: When was the Jamaican "toasting" style of singing and talking adapted into rap music?
A: The Jamaican "toasting" style of singing and talking was adapted into rap music in the 1980s.
Q: What role does the electric guitar play in Ska music?
A: In ska music, the electric guitar plays short chords on the off-beat.
