Practice your triads, work up your speed on chugging eighth notes, done! 
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Roadmap to ska:
- Bob Marley
- Toots & The Maytals
- The Clash
- Madness
- Everything else (90s ska revival, etc)
Ska bass might need its own thread? I know there are some ska heads out there that know the good stuff.
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Ska bass might need its own thread? I know there are some ska heads out there that know the good stuff.
90’s ska-kid here. What do you want to know? Are you looking for 2nd-wave two-tone Brit stuff of 3rd-wave “ska revival” stuff? Tons of good bands out there. There were a lot of really awesome compilation ska CDs in the 90s that featured a lot of really cool local bands that played a more “traditional” style (as opposed to the ska-pop-punk that became popular in the late 90s). I will have to pull out my case logic cases.
Some good 90s bands that come immediately to mind are: The Toasters; The Articles; New York Ska Jazz Ensemble; Let’s Go Bowling; Mustard Plug; Mu330; Dance Hall Crashers; Pietasters. Some comps I remember were “American Skathic” I, II, and III; Skarmagedon, Skankaholics Anonymous.
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I agree. @JoshFossgreen can you move all this SKA stuff from the Post your Covers thread to it’s own thread? Thanks!
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Three songs on my “list to learn” are ska: Our House by Madness, One Step Beyond also by Madness, and Ghost Town by The Specials.
Good stuff. 
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Ok, fine, so one of the songs on my “to learn list” is ska-adjacent. 
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Ha!
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