Funking Single Notes Lesson

- Kristofer Dahl9th February 2010
  Very nice riffs Stephane!
- Emir Hot9th February 2010
  Great groove man.
- Ivan Milenkovic9th February 2010
  sounds classy!
- playaxeman9th February 2010
  Hi Stephane,
  This is cool.
  I was just working on a Earth Wind & Fire song with this funky single note playing. So is quit useful for me atm.
- Stephane Lucarelli9th February 2010
  Thanks a lot guys!
  
  QUOTE (playaxeman @ Feb 9 2010, 12:17 PM)
  Hi Stephane,
  This is cool.
  I was just working on a Earth Wind & Fire song with this funky single note playing. So is quit useful for me atm.
  
  Thanks man, , there's lot of cool ideas to steal in this band !
- Keilnoth9th February 2010
  Very nice lesson ! Thanks Stephane !
- Bogdan Radovic9th February 2010
  Great lesson mate! I love this type of funk!
- Lian Gerbino9th February 2010
  great lesson man, well done!
- Adrian Figallo9th February 2010
  wow stephane groovy brother!
- Frederik9th February 2010
  Awsome! how do u make the ghost-notes sound so loud? compression?
- Crazy_Diamond9th February 2010
  Nice tone Stéphane ... so groovy....
- Gerardo Siere9th February 2010
  Great groovy lesson!
- ZakkWylde9th February 2010
  Am I the only one who read the title with a *diffrent* word for funking? ^^
  Great lesson Stephane!
- Dexxter9th February 2010
  no your not alone Zakk haha
- Zsolt Galambos9th February 2010
  Cool sounding lesson!
- Jonathan Burgos9th February 2010
  WOW! this is so cool! I really love it my friend!! great lesson.
- Stephane Lucarelli9th February 2010
  Thanks for the comments my friends & glad you liked this one!
  
  QUOTE (Frederik @ Feb 9 2010, 04:22 PM)
  Awsome! how do u make the ghost-notes sound so loud? compression?
  
  I use an old maxon cp101 compressor - It's very smooth, transparent & natural sounding pedal. I don't like pumping effects...and this one keep the dynamics of your playin'
  But I would recommend to work without compression at first, to control your picking hand and the balance between ghost-notes & played notes...
  There's also a little compression on the global mix, so...
  
  QUOTE (ZakkWylde @ Feb 9 2010, 05:10 PM)
  Am I the only one who read the title with a *diffrent* word for funking? ^^
  Great lesson Stephane!
  
  Hahaha....
- Shime10th February 2010
  Very subtle and groovy. Great lesson, love that funk!
- Piotr Kaczor10th February 2010
  Sounds perfect, as always, Stephane!
- Stephane Lucarelli10th February 2010
  Thanks Shime & Piotr!
- Santiago Diaz Garces11th February 2010
  Great Steph!! This is so helpful
- zoom11th February 2010
  I'm feeling it! Great your got awesome feel man!
- Stephane Lucarelli14th February 2010
  Thanks a lot guys!
- Adrian Figallo20th September 2011
  i love your playing stephane, glad you are back to GMC!
- Ioscommuter14th December 2014
  Great funking lesson! I am really funking impressed, and will be playing a lot of funking single notes!
- Kristofer Dahl14th December 2014
  
  QUOTE (Ioscommuter @ Dec 14 2014, 02:03 PM)
  Great funking lesson! I am really funking impressed, and will be playing a lot of funking single notes!
  
  FUNK YEAH!!

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Hi GMC!

In this lesson we gonna work on single-note funk guitar.
When it comes to funk style, keep in mind that guitar serves almost as a "percussive" instrument.

There's some important things to pay attention to :
- The basic right hand skills: alternate picking and the 16th note rhythm.
- The muting technique
- Of course the rhythm placement

Relax your picking hand as much as possible and try to find the tone you like by moving the palm of your hand.
Keep your right hand constantly moving down and up on sixteenth notes, but it's not necessary to play all the 16th ghost notes : try to leave room in the patterns. The "groove" also comes from not played and suggested notes or ghost notes...

The chords are C-7 / F9 and we gonna use C minor pentatonic and C Dorian scales to build up our guitar licks.

Have fun!
Stephane

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