Hello my friend, here are your June assignments!
You said you want to start with some funk. I will gladly give you some funk to rehearse. Not only that we will do funk style of playing, but I will try to put lessons that will help with improvising too. I made several funk lessons that are both rhythm and lead, so one rhythm and one lead one (combined with theory in between) will be a good place to start. These two lessons can form a bond and give you an idea what skills to use when improvising, not just funk, but anything.
Here are June assignments:
Assignment number 1:deadline: June 14
task: check out
this lesson, and rehearse videos 2 and 3
goal: post an audio recording of these two videos by the end of the deadline
Assignment number 2:deadline: June 20
task: check out
this lesson, and rehearse videos 4 and 5
goal: post an audio recording of these two videos by the end of the deadline
Assignment number 3:deadline: June 26
task: check out
this lesson, and rehearse video 6
goal: post an audio recording of this video by the end of the deadline
Assignment number 4:deadline: June 30
task: rehearse the whole lesson, request backing couple of days earlier, and record a video of your playing the lesson in normal tempo
goal: post the video for REC program grading and review.
Theory assignments for June:
Answer all the questions bellow:1. What major key E dorian mode is?
2. What are the chord triads of that key?
3. If we choose E minor key as our base key for this backing, what is it's relative major key?
4. What chords are mostly used in this lesson?
5. What scales are mostly used in this lesson?
6. What is the most natural scale (mode) that is supposed to be used with E7 chord? Why?
This will cover the funk rhythm basics for the month of June. In the next month we will do some bluesy/funky lead stuff that can relate to the chords used here. This will help you develop your improvising skills too. I will focus on arpeggios too, but later on in the program. If t