Kristofer Dahl12th January 2008Very cool Ivan!
I am looking forward to more of these lessons!
Xranthoius12th January 2008Wow! Awesome lesson Ivan! Sounds really cool!!!
Maximus12th January 2008COOL!!!
dreadlocks12th January 2008wah-pedal cool!
going to buy one
Muris Varajic12th January 2008Awesome Ivan!!
Nice Bass pattern as well- TheClansmanDK12th January 2008
Yeah more funk. Great lesson Ivan
kyldeee12th January 2008Very funky must say
Great job mate 
Marcus Lavendell12th January 2008Wow!! Awesome Ivan!
DeepRoots12th January 2008I'm loving this Funk series Ivan- wah pedal shots in the video are just right too ! Thanks!
Nick32512th January 2008just what i needed
Pablo Vazquez12th January 2008Excellent Lesson Ivan, awesome and very cool!!
botoxfox12th January 2008That sounds insanely funky!
N4085B12th January 2008Very Cool! Reminds me of the big afros and polyester suits in the late 60's and early 70's!
I can almost hear the horn section coming in too!
dango12th January 2008what a great lesson!!!! I've just got wah pedal, so what a great timing to have this lesson. thank you!
Dejan Farkas12th January 2008Excellent Ivan!
Tomy Jeon12th January 2008Funkeh!!!
mattacuk12th January 2008Ivan is fast becomeing the GMC "Funk master" !!!
Hisham Al-Sanea12th January 2008great work ivan keep funk man
JukeboxHero12th January 2008Wow this is cool. P.S. Nice Shoes:)
at lights end12th January 2008awesome!!!
Gerardo Siere12th January 2008Nice!
Ayen12th January 2008Nice job Ivan, sounds great, can't wait to show my friends this!
Toni Suominen12th January 2008Great lesson and cool wah-wah camera angle!
The Uncreator13th January 2008Incredibly Cool, Great Job!!
Lester13th January 2008amazing!!
love to learn this
Ivan Milenkovic13th January 2008Thank you very much guys
Doing some wah wah lessons as we speak, beginner and intermediate level.
kaznie_NL13th January 2008It's realy cool Milenkovic! I'm busy buying a mulit FX so I'm defenitly gonna use the wah!!
nice lesson
Bogdan Radovic13th January 2008Very fun lesson to get people started with wah !! And very funky as well
krudtaa13th January 2008Great Wah lesson. Funkmaster Ivan
Fran13th January 2008really cool lesson, I was looking forward for more wah lessons, thanks Ivan
Joe Kataldo13th January 2008Cool man, I'll Include This Topic in My "I Got Rhythm Guitar" Series Too!!!
Joe Kataldo
Gabriel Leopardi14th January 2008Sounds great! Good job Ivan!
Jerry Arcidiacono14th January 2008Cool lesson Ivan!
Juan M. Valero14th January 2008Love this sound !!!! really good lesson
David Wallimann14th January 2008Excellent one, keep these coming, I love funk!
- David Wallimann14th January 2008
Great alternate angles too. Do you use 2 simultaneous cameras recording?
- Ivan Milenkovic14th January 2008
No, I record them separately in tempo and then sync.
Andrew Cockburn16th January 2008Amazing Ivan - love the split camera angles, you are a total funk-master
- jhonnylachingas20th January 2008
man...!!! - i love it..! groovy..!
thanks a lot for the great lesson..! - Ivan Milenkovic20th January 2008
Thanks guys, more funk coming up soon!
ItsMe17th March 2008nice lesson.
Carlos Carrillo27th March 2008fantastic lesson Ivan!!!
- Ivan Milenkovic29th March 2008
Thanks again
- adam b7th April 2008
speechless man that was amazing
Keilnoth24th February 2010Just found this lesson ! In my bookmark for later use !
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Wah-Wah Solo Lesson
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Hi GMC, welcome to my first (in the series) of wah-wah lessons! :) Today we are going to learn some funk rhythm techniques with the wah pedal, and soon I'll do a wah solo lesson too. Lets get started!
Wah pedal is surely very popular pedal among guitar players. It can add a very distinct flavor to our playing, both rhythmic and solo. Wah was very popular effect during the funk era, because it gave rhythm players of that time to experiment with rhythm in a way that they could not do it before. Ever since then, the pedal has found its place in the world music, and today people still use it, it is often a must-have in pro guitar player's arsenal.
Playing a wah pedal seems simple, and it can be - thats the beauty of the pedal. All you have to do is tap your foot on the beat and you already have some interesting rhythmic effects going on. But you can do a lot more with a wah pedal using different combinations of foot tapings and rhythm syncopation. Here we have few example that (I hope) can lead you to think different ways when playing your wah pedal.
This lesson is divided into 5 main sections - 5 main riffs. Each riff is repeated 2x in the main video, with small differences here and there, and each one uses different wah pedal note accenting. I'll explain things as we move along so lets begin. The whole piece is in the key of B, using Bminor pentatonics for note play, and B mixolydian mode for chord play - classic :)
Sound for this lesson: Bridge Humbucker, Dunlop 535q (high q setting),toneport fender blackface 1964 emulation (crunch), some reverb.
