[Guitar funk music] Hi, how you doing? Justin here! This is now part four of my little series on funk guitar and today we are going to be looking at some more funk chords Some new voicings for dominant 7th chord that you might want to try using in your funk play. Hopefully you've been through the other lessons already, cause these new chords are a little bit harder to use. Well actually they're not that much harder to use, but you'd be better off getting the basic chords down first. Go and check that out if you haven't already So, basically we're looking now at more E-dominant chords. So in the E-dominant chord family we have E7, E9, E11, E13, and E7 sus 4. So what I'm going to do is show you some more cool funky little chord rifts that you might want to try out , so lets get to a closeup and I'll show you some of these cool new chords. K, the first chord that we're using here This is a little E7 cord. [strums guitar] and we're starting here with the first finger on the root note, which is the note E, second fret on the 4th string. We're going 2nd fret, 4th fret, 3rd fret, 4th fret. [strums guitar] Very funky cool little chord this one. Now another good chord within this sort of shape is moving this little finger forward one fret and you get an E7 sas 4 [plays guitar] Very very cool little [plays guitar] nice little grip those 2 little E7 sus 4 and regular E7. and regular E7 Now, we've already looked at E9 a couple different variations of that E13, up here. So we've kind of got a few in this rough area. There's one that I really like [strums guitar] This is an E13 chord. It's got a D in the base It's got the flat 7 in the base there So it's going 5, 6, 6, 5 You have to be a bit careful with this because the lowest note, the base note is an E It can sound a bit weird so it's quite common to jump and go [strums guitar] E9 is the main chord and just jumpin off into this E13 chord. It does sound... It's a lovely sounding chord. Remember because we're in E, we can hit that low bass note there as well if we want. Very groovy little chord. [strums guitar] We've got those E9, E13 that we looked at before. The next one that I'm going to show you This is a very cool little chord [strums guitar] It's kind of a bluesy 7th chord The root note is here on the 3rd string And we just go this is our study on the 4th string we've got 9, 9, 9, 10 [plays guitar] Which of course works really well with we've got our E9 down here you can have like [plays guitar] Lots of nice little ways of incorporating this little 7th chord in Now of course we've got these other 2 little chord voicings up here These are a little bit awkward for some people to get to but they're not that hard Just takes a little bit of getting your fingers used to playing them What we've got here is standing on the 4th string here with the 3rd finger we've got 12th fret, 11th fret, 9th fret, 12th fret [strums guitar] Very very nice little grip this one and that's a 9th chord that's an E9 Now you can also move the first finger forward and you've kind of got E9 sus or E11 [strums guitar] So E9, E11 and again just to tie into the other ones If you down here [plays guitar] Lots of different ways that you can start to muck around with using this E11, E9, E7, E13 Now actually I'll explain this one seperately So in the last lesson we looked at E9 as being played like this or like this Now another really common way of playing it is just like this without the base notes So the root note is here just as we normally play it like that But you can leave that out as well and that can be quite funky and also sometimes use your second finger instead of your third finger Which makes it easier to get that little 13th hold that way you can hit the low E base not in the key of E but you couldn't in other keys You can now use this to get chord scales For example, playing we're going up the mixalidian mode on the thinner string going [plays chord] Which would be E7, E11, E9, E13, E7, E9* and using that you can create little melodies [plays guitar] Like I just showed you at the end there There are infinite number of ways of putting these chords together It's just something that's improvised and you can learn set patterns and in fact in the next lesson I'm gonna show you a few more set grooves that i think kind of work well. But a really big part of playing in this style is you experimenting with how you put those chords together Experimenting with the rhythms we've covered already and then just mucking around with changing between the different chords and seeing what ways you can try and put them together It's lost of fun and it means as well as a lot of fun tunes, not just 1 chord for ages If you got a lot of the James Brown songs 1 chord like E9 safe for the whole song So if you've got a whole bunch of different chords that you can use It really opens up what you can play Now in the little kind of demo I did a minute ago or whatever, I was using loads and loads of different chords And you probably wouldn't want to do that Because it just sounds a bit silly It's too much, you don't need to use so many colors all at the same time It ends up just sounding messy You're better off picking just a few different chords and putting them together in a group. Not tryna show off how many chords you know I was just tryna give you a bit of a look into see some of the different ways that you could use those chords Check out those chords, get them under your fingers and then when you feel up for it join me for the next part where we'll look at some more proper funk grooves See ya soon, take care, bye bye