Refer to Funk Basics I for more useful hints
Funk Basics II
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This lesson will add one more attack per beat with a sum of two("Funk basic I" dealt with one attack per beat) displacing them in different rhythmic combinations, as before we will start scratching (ghost note) all sixteenth-notes (four per beat) with a constant down/up strumming, muting the strings laying lightly an E9 chord (the James Brown Chord), and adding pressure to play different accents:
1. on the first two sixteenth-notes, with a down-stroke & an up-stroke, followed by two scratches;
2. on the third & fourth sixteenth-notes, with a down-stroke & an up-stroke, preceded by two scratches;
3. on the second & third sixteenth-notes, with an up-stroke & a down stroke, preceded by one and followed by one scratch;
4. on the first & third sixteenth-notes, with down-strokes, & scratches in between;
5. on the second & fourth sixteenth-notes, with up-strokes, & scratches in between;
6. on the first & fourth sixteenth-notes, with a down-stroke & an up-stroke, and two scratches in between;
NOTE:
Some of this rhythmic exercises are alternated by one beat of scratching to make the rhythmic cell stands out;
These exercises are the building blocks of funk guitar, and needs to be practiced daily!
Recommended Listening
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Essential Funk Discography
Next lesson will be on three and four attacks per beat... keep practicing, see ya soon!
Joe Kataldo
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