[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