Pressure Drop
Toots and the Maytals · 1969
Early rocksteady-to-reggae groove foundational to the one-drop lineage.
- Artist
- Toots and the Maytals
- Year
- 1969
- Genre
- reggae
- Drummer
- Winston Grennan
- Tempo
- 70 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- rocksteady one drop
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
42bpm
Building
56bpm
Target
70bpm
The feel
A rocksteady one drop in 4/4 around 70 BPM. It's slow — the space between hits is the hard part; keep the pulse dead steady and resist filling gaps.
What to watch
- •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.
How to learn it
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