Ajmurrell6th January 2009Really really liked this Ivan, great playing and immensely likeable!
Made me smile!
Nazgul6th January 2009The slides in the beginning rule.
Great song Ivan!
Joe Kataldo6th January 2009Great topic and rhythm lesson thump is really important to mute and play funk chords
P.S.
I see it out of sync...it's just me or what?
Nighthawk16th January 2009Thanks for that Ivan, John Frusciante uses this fretting technique a lot so I can really make use of this lesson
kaznie_NL6th January 2009Great work Ivan, nice job as always! Working with the thumb can be a great addicion to your playing. Addicion??
Bogdan Radovic6th January 2009Excellent lesson Ivan!! Love this groove!
Mr T6th January 2009This sounds great and looks like a lot of fun. Cool lesson
Carlos Carrillo6th January 2009Groooooove men!! hahaha!! cool Ivan!! You are Great my friend!!
Ivan Milenkovic6th January 2009Thanks guys, I'm glad you like it
PS I'll make adjustments right away if you think that there are sync issues, I haven't noticed it when preparing the lesson.- Joe Kataldo6th January 2009
Maybe it's only me
19935027rafa6th January 2009Ivan you're the man!! It's raining funk licks!! cool funky lesson.
PS. what is the key behind such an amazing amount of licks-vocabulary?- Ivan Milenkovic6th January 2009
I used only one chord here, and that is B dominant one.
The scales that are often in use with this kind of track are:
B minor pentatonic
B dorian
B mixolydain (for chords) 
Gerardo Siere6th January 2009Great groove Ivan.
Piotr Kaczor6th January 2009Great sound and playing Ivan. Interesting and useful as always!
Toni Suominen6th January 2009Funky and groovy stuff Ivan!
Hisham Al-Sanea6th January 2009nice funk Ivan..great work
Sergio Dorado6th January 2009Funk with great quality. Awesome rythm sense!
preownedguitar7th January 2009Sounds great, got to love funk! Only the first video with the backing track seems a tad off with audio unless its my Internet
Dejan Farkas7th January 2009Nice concept, great to make use of the thumb
- Ivan Milenkovic7th January 2009
Thanks a lot guys! Will try to fix the syncing today!
Emir Hot7th January 2009Great topic. Very groovy
Ramiro Delforte7th January 2009Great cool groove!
*Joe's right, there's a little problem with the sync- Ivan Milenkovic7th January 2009
Thanks for the input Ramiro and everyone, the main video will be reuploaded soon.
Sinisa Cekic8th January 2009Excellent sound and playing !!!
Jad Diab8th January 2009Great sound Ivan, you got the groove man
- Ivan Milenkovic8th January 2009
Thanks guys!
Caelumamittendum9th January 2009Funkalicious, Ivan!
- Ivan Milenkovic9th January 2009
Thanks! Main video should be in sync in some time today guys!
JVM3rd March 2009I don't know how I missed this one - I usually manage to watch each video GMC puts out, especially when its from one of my favorite instructors! Found this one while searching on how to improve my left-hand thumb incorporation to do your Brian Setzer lesson. Anyway, enough paragraphs, awesome lesson ivan!
- Ivan Milenkovic3rd March 2009
Hehe, awesome mate, nice to see you've found it! Have fun!
Alexiaden934th June 2009One-man band !
- main
- Members only1
- 2
- Members only3
- Members only4
- Members only5
- Members only6
- Difficulty: 5
- Difficulty4
- Difficulty5
- Difficulty5
- Difficulty3
- Difficulty5
- Difficulty6
- Difficulty4
- Difficulty5
Open Strings Strumming
acoustic, drop D tuning, Hole Hearted, Extreme, Nuno Bettencourtby Jerry Arcidiacono - Difficulty4
- Lesson
- My notes
- Statistics
Hey GMC, welcome to my new Funky Lesson. In this lesson we are going to do some nice funky licks that involve out thumb for playing bass lines.
Playing bass lines has some advantages. For example you can have all other fingers free for some treble string licks. Here we are trying to create a feel that there are two guitars. One for bass lines, and other one for rhythmic treble lines.
You can use these 5 grooves as basic ideas to develop your own bass thumb licks. Playing with the thumb can be very fun, but approach it as you would any other exercise - with metronome.
This lesson contains:
- Fretting bass strings with thumb finger
- Cool Funky Licks
- Dominant chord strumming and rhythmic patterns
Members practicing this lesson
- No members currently practicing this lesson.
REC Takes
Here is how to submit one.
Lesson views
- Total views: 4460
- Member views: 357
- Guest views: 4103