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In this clip from "Chuck Vanderchuck's 'Something Something' Explosion," Chuck and Ramona break down the history of Reggae music. Reggae music started in Jamaica in the late 1960s. It developed from two earlier forms of Jamaican music: ska and rocksteady. Ska was first and fast. Rocksteady was like ska but much slower. After a while, musicians wanted to play something that was slower than ska, but faster than rocksteady. This is how Reggae came to be. Reggae has a 4/4 beat with guitar or piano accents on the off beats.