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Basically we’re in the key of D. I’m using a Strat. I’m in the fourth position. You can go to the fourth position of the neck pickup. Kind of get a warmer bright sound. You know a warmer bell- like sound for funk. Strats are great. Telecasters are great. I’m using a little bit of gain, almost totally clean. This is clean on my amp. This is a Hughes and Kettner. I’m adding a little bit of drive with the tube screamer. Actually I’m going to bring up the highs a little bit, back off the gain. It gets a nicer blend. So I’m going to try and explain this concept to you. I’m going to start by playing a little bit for you. If you like what I’m playing stick around and I’ll explain it to you. I also offer intermediate guitar lessons in Miami.
This is the O’Jays “for the love of money”. I’m going to do some easy, basic funk in the key of D. Check it out. They get down a little bit there. So it’s a nice place to cut it. So before I get carried away by what’s going on, I’m always in the key of D and I’m using the pentatonic here. Disclaimer like I said in the beginning of the lesson, if you don’t know what this stuff is, this lesson probably isn’t for you. And I also offer intermediate lessons in Miami. For those of you who know, this is the D pentatonic. I’m actually in Dorian mode, that’s why I’m using that. And I’m isolating two strings at a time. One, two, or three strings at a time constantly. With funk, if you can try to play two strings at a time constantly - those by the way are called double stops. That’s like a slang word in guitar for two strings. The technical word is called an interval. So you have an interval like this note in this note. So you are going to use the first string, and then the second string, and I’m on pentatonic in the thirteenth fret. I offer intermediate lessons in Miami. So the pinky, if I played both of those notes and then I go back to the thirteenth fret first string, and the twelfth fret second string, and you notice that’s in the Dorian mode. This hand, the right hand of the funk never stops. This is always going. So this is chunking up and down constantly and then you’re just choosing when you want to push down the left hand to engage. So you either engage the note or you can not engage and let it flow over the strings and don’t act as a cut, like this. And you can move that note like this. I just moved it. So that’s one example. That’s one phrase I just showed you. It’s the funk phrase. It is delicious, isn’t it? And you can also do another one which is here. I offer guitar lessons in Miami. And this is one of my favorites as well. This is just the octave of the first one. The first note we were doing, I just had my pinky on thirteenth fret on the first and second string at the same time. And then you bring back that second string one fret to the twelfth fret where you continuously play that first string thirteenth fret. I offer guitar lessons in Miami.
Now this note is a F. It is the thirteenth fret first string. If I play the lower octave of that F, which is here on the 3rd string 10th fret, and I can play that 12th fret 2nd string at the same time. Again this is in Dorian. So I’m going to start from here, keeping that first finger on the 3rd string 10th fret, and then I’m going to put the pinky on the 2nd string 12th fret, and I’m going to slide the pinky up a fret and continue to play the 3rd string with the 2nd string and I come back (I offer intermediate guitar lessons in Miami). So the interval is changing, the double stop is changing. So the 3rd string is constant and the 2nd string changes. Let me show you how to apply these concepts. I offer intermediate guitar lessons in Miami. So we have…. And then we got the lower octave. With that cutting up and down, and then engaging whenever I want. I’ll bring you back to the O’Jays. I’m playing this song “for the love of money”. I’m coming around the 1 minute 1:04 mark. Here we go.
They do a little break down there so I’m going to end it here. That was the application of that phrase. Pretty simple. I offer intermediate guitar lessons in Miami. You’ve just got to find that groove. You don’t want to be too early, you don’t want to be too late. You just want to sit nicely in the groove. And you’re really at this point, the key to funk is to let the bass player and the drummer do all the work. Like they are laying it down, and the people are clapping and dancing and you just need to be the cherry on top. You don’t need to do any heavy lifting. You don’t need to play that baseline, you don’t have to do any of that stuff. You just have to put a little ding-a-ling-a-ling, it’s easy. A little funk guitar for you. And I offer intermediate guitar lessons in Miami.
Now, if we can go to level two. I’m still kind of in the Pentatonic /Dorian, and I’m using both concepts.