<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Jamaican musicians and producers who created the rocksteady sound out of ska were well - versed in jazz and readily influenced by other genres, most notably rhythm and blues (R&B), plus African and Latin American drumming . Perhaps the most easily recognizable element and that which could be considered reggae music's gift to the world, as in ska, is an offbeat rhythm; staccato chords played by a guitar and piano on the offbeats of the measure . The perceived tempo became slower with the development of rocksteady than it had been in ska . The guitar and piano players began to experiment with occasional accents around the basic offbeat pattern . This can be heard throughout Jamaican recordings in subsequent years . </P> <P> Rocksteady, even more so the early reggae that followed, was built around the "one drop" drum beat, characterized by a heavy accent on the third beat of every bar . This differs markedly from the drumming styles in R&B and rock and roll, which put the bass drum on the first beat (the downbeat) and almost never on the second and fourth beats). </P>

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