Ben Howell gives a lesson with a Robben Ford vibe, showing approaches over a funky E9 vamp, pentatonics & Half-whole diminished scale. This lesson gives useful knowledge for a fusion vamp context.

In this lesson we gonna mix the Dorian scale with the Melodic minor scale to add some "colors" and tensions in our playing.

We go through 4 chord inversion on 4 adjacent treble strings, 4 adjacent middle strings and 4 adjacent bass strings. These inversion are all the dominant voicings that you`ll be needing in order to make some great funk riffs or vamps.

David Wallimann shows u how to play the chromatic scale. The most important thing when playing chromatic is the landing note as that's the one that will ring in the listener's ear.

Analyzing the fusion of the Dorian scale with the Blues scale.

The secret to making the most of your chops is to balance them and use them in a smart way. To do that, we'll try to alternate between nice melodic ideas with faster technical passages.

Fast funk rhythm work based around eighth note triplets in the style of Maceo Parker, James Brown, Stevie Ray Vaughan...

Let's look at building phrases with a strong melodic core. Very cool writing exercise.

A closer look at the techniques involved when playing Funk single lines - muted, open and skank techniques.