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Permalink Reply by Greg Tiffany on May 21, 2018 at 2:32pm

Great lesson.  New builder/player.  I like that your recent lessons have been focusing on the "right" strum/finger hand. 

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Permalink Reply by Br Harold F Stubbs III on May 22, 2018 at 11:10am

Great Video.

My two cents -
How do you teach the funk? You have to go beyond Grokking the funk and really understand it...

Or loosen up the right arm and just get funky?

I'm not sure I could teach some of my moves even..

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Permalink Reply by Jeff 'Bones' Reilly on May 22, 2018 at 9:36pm

Ol Greg I love Ol Greg . Great lesson as always . 

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Permalink Reply by Robert Stapleton on March 9, 2019 at 4:44am

Oh, that's some mighty fine rockin' funk - a good example of a funk variation.

Here's my two cents on the essence of pure funk. It has three ingredients.
1. Tight, precise, percussive playing - lots of short notes.
2. Lots of notes on the up beats instead of the down beats. If you're counting 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and. The upbeats are the "and".
3. Space. Play a riff and then leave a gap before the next group of notes. Then another instrument will create a part that plays something in that empty space while leaving a gap in its own part. When played together, it's like pieces of a jig saw puzzle coming together to form a picture. But no one piece can represent the whole picture. The best example of this is the intro to Cut The Cake by the Average White Band.

Exceptions:
Generally funk is played with a clean signal so that the precision of it can be heard. But not always.
If you're Stevie Wonder you can do anything you want and it will just be funky.

Here's a brief example of taking a rock song (Daytripper) and making it funky by applying the three steps listed above. Both guitars in this are CBGs.
Daytripper%20full.mp3

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