ska and reggae

does anyone know of any good ska or reggae chord patterns? or if there are any ska or reggae scales?

The best scales to use in reggae and ska are blues scales. Seeing how both styles use a lot of bar chords and box patterns, blues scales are just the right thing.

Also in a lot raggae they play like barre chord but only play like the first 3 high strings in a kinda short quirky rythym. Kinda like rock inside out.

If you go to cyberfret.com thay have a large section on ska that includes history, chords, and rythems. If you're looking for any info on ska you'll probably find it there.

You should know ( or learn ) the chords in your key:
in a Major key the chords follow this

I ii iii IV V vi vii(dim)

capitols are major
lowercase is minor
the vii is diminished

So if you were in the key of C
the chords would be:
Cmaj-Dmin-Emin-Fmaj-Gmaj-Amin-Bdim

Basically as long as you stick with the correct selection of M and m any progression will fit of course some will sound better than others but it will fit.

hey guys, thanks a lot for your input this stuff really helps!