rhythms The ska stroke up or ska upstroke, skank or bang, is a guitar strumming technique that is used mostly in the performance of ska, rocksteady,...

stringed instrument such as a guitar, ukulele, or mandolin. A strum or stroke is a sweeping action where a finger or plectrum brushes over several strings...

The Ska stroke Play: palm muted downbeat downstrokes and staccato upbeat upstrokes...

is known for its offbeat rhythm (particularly the one drop rhythm and ska stroke) and Rastafarian-influenced lyrics. Reggae fusion Reggae highlife Reggaeton...

particular, Spruance noted that Mike Patton had to teach him to play the ska stroke for a performance at their high school talent show. Spruance later explained...

twist on the one drop rhythm. Half time (music) Rhythm guitar § Reggae Ska stroke Strong, Jeff (2011). Drums For Dummies, p.163. ISBN 9781118068618. Veal...

adjacent strings are scratched). The technique is especially popular among ska, rocksteady and reggae guitarists, who use it with virtually every riddim...

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (東京スカパラダイスオーケストラ, Tōkyō Suka Paradaisu Ōkesutora), commonly abbreviated by fans as Skapara or TSPO, is a Japanese ska and jazz...

playing by Richard Greene in the 1960s. Banjo roll Bluegrass mandolin Ska stroke "Introduction to the 'Chop'", Anger, Darol. Strad (0039-2049); 10/01/2006...

The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including...

slower tempos allowed for the "double skank" guitar strokes on the offbeat. Reggae developed from ska and rocksteady in the late 1960s. Larry And Alvin's...

Ralyuchenko, 62, Ukrainian football player (Zirka Kirovohrad, Metalist Kharkiv, SKA Kyiv) and manager. Herb Robertson, 73, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist...

The stroke is used on the snare in rock, pop, Jazz, and blues and on the tom-toms in Afro-Cuban music. The technique is also common in bossa nova, ska, reggae...

oversee the session. Ranglin and his musicians adopted the newly-popular ska style, and his rearrangement of "My Boy Lollipop", a song originally released...

of strokes, including one in 2009 that left him unable to walk. I Feel the Spirit (1963), Blue Beat Fly Flying Ska (1964), Blue Beat National Ska – Pain...

as Ranking Roger, was an English musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s ska band the Beat (known in North America as the English Beat) and later new...

biological father) 1966: Pied Piper, Rio 1967: "Pied Piper" (single, on Club Ska '67), Mango 1980: Rita Marley – Trident 1981: Who Feels It Knows It, Shanachie...

(1993), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. UB40 and the English ska band Madness hold the record for most weeks spent by a group in the UK singles...

underground, ska punk, a mixture of earlier British ska and punk acts, became popular in the United States. Rancid was the first of the "third-wave ska revival"...

to sing his first composition, "Pass It On", which at the time was more ska-oriented. However, Wailer was late getting out of school and missed his audition...

NatSKA (National Schools Karting Association), organize race meetings throughout the country under the authority of the MSA. Various four-stroke "hire...

("groundations"). The rhythms of these chants were eventually an influence of popular ska, rocksteady and reggae music. It is the traditional music of the Rastafarian...

Kustom Kulture movement.[citation needed] Ska punk fans typically dress in a style that mixes typical ska- or 2 Tone-related fashions, with various types...

TriSpirit – "Rejoice" feat. Tonni Smith (2003); backing vocals New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble – Skaleidoscope (2005); vocals Rufus Wainwright – "Release...

Constructional apraxia may be caused by lesions in the parietal lobe following stroke or it may serve as an indicator for Alzheimer's disease. A key deficit in...

an episode of Police Squad!, in which he asks an underworld contact about ska and obtains skin cream to keep himself looking young.[citation needed] Clark...

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Brevett was a founding member in 1964 of the ska band The Skatalites. He toured many countries with The Skatalites, and produced...

23 December 2023. Persson, Stefan (11 April 2024). "Norsk och dansk polis ska stärka säkerheten under Eurovision" [Norwegian and Danish police will strengthen...

emerged and took over as the most popular of the decade, as well as punk rock, ska punk, and nu metal, amongst others, which attained a high level of success...

The Porkers are an Australian ska punk band from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Formed in 1987 as The Pork Hunts, the band was eventually forced...