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Hello, how are you doing? Justin here.

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After my little wah-wah pedal reviews
the other day,

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a lot of people asked me to do some
lessons on some funk guitar.

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So, I'm going to do this little series now

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This first lesson is going to show you
some basic funk chords,

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so it'll just be looking at six
really common, cool,

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fairly straight-forward,
not-too-difficult to play, chords

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that are good for doing funk.

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Next lesson we're going to look at
rhythm guitar, basic funk rhythm

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then a few more fancy chords
in the next lesson,

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and then a few more complicated rhythm
strumming patterns

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that you might use in funk.

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A lot of people asked that before I go
and do the lesson

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I show you what's gonna happen in practice

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I'm going to play a little bit of
the funk that you'll

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hopefully be able to play at the end of
the course after

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you've done your practice

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but don't expect to be able to do it
straight away. So,

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Take it away, Justin!

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(jamming funkily)

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(jamming intensifies)

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That kind of thing.

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There was a lot of chords
going on there

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more chords than you probably
need to do

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and I was just showing off how many...
kind of the possibilities of it.

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So, what we're gonna start off with is
just looking at six really cool,

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common chord grips.

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These are going to be
I'll do a close-up of these

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E9,

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another version of E9,

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E13,

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E7,

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another version of E7,

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and E7sus4, or E11.

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Before I try and show you how to use
any of these things,

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we need to get close-up and
make sure that you get the

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finger right for each of the chords
because it makes a big difference so

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Let's go real close-up and
check that out.

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The first chord to look at today is this

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E9 chord, which looks like this

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I'll run it through with you, so it's

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2nd finger on the 7th fret
of the 5th string,

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that's the root note, where we get the
chord's name from.

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Then the 1st finger going down
on the 6th fret of the 4th string,

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3rd finger going down on the 7th fret
of the 3rd string,

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little finger going down on the 7th fret
of the 2nd string.

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It's very important that you realize when
you're playing this chord that

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the second finger here is touching
the thickest string and muting it,

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and the little finger, the underneath
of the little finger there,

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is muting that 1st string, so that
we should have

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muted 6th string, then note...

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...

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and that thinner string is muted.

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So that's the first E9 chord we're
looking at.

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Now, the second E9 chord we're looking at
is very similar,

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but all we're going to do is we're going
to use our 3rd finger to make a little bar

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on the thinnest three strings.

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Now, make sure that you remember to get
this knuckle further away from the neck

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than this part of the hand, so it's really
going out there towards you there.

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So, just like when you're doing an A-shape
barre chord it's the same kind of feeling.

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Then we have 2nd finger reaching over the
top of the 3rd finger there,

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and 1st finger in the same place as it was
for the other E9.

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So this one's really similar...

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but now we get this top note as well there

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so the top note here is B, the thinnest
string is being held down

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so this is also an E9.

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So we have that E9...

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and now we've got this E9...

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Now, a really funky little variation of
this one is to use this 13th chord.

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So, this is the same as our 9th chord here
but we stretch out with the little finger

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up two frets so this little finger is just
going down here, this is in the 9th fret.

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E9

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E13

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Very cool little chord, so that one there
that's an E13.

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Now, another really common chord that we
can use here is little E7 chord here,

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just shuffle my hand back a little bit,
there we go.

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So, now this one here we've got the root
note here with the 3rd finger,

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2nd finger is going on the 6th fret,

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little finger is going on the 7th fret
of the 3rd string,

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1st finger is going on the 5th fret
of the 2nd string

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This is an E7, noting of course again that
the 3rd finger is muting that

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thicker string so that doesn't sound,

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and the underneath of the 1st finger there
right around at the back there,

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is touching the 1st string, so we should
have muted note,

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note, note, note, note,

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and thinnest string is muted again,
so that one's an E7.

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Now, there's another very common way to
play an E7,

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which is up here...

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Now, this one's just kind of an A-shape
barre chord.

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There would be your regular like E chord,
your barre chord,

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notice I'm tucking that finger away so you
get a good view,

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you wouldn't normally play it like that.

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So that would be your regular E chord.

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Now, E7 is played like this,

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so this is a full barre with the 1st
finger at the 7th fret,

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the root note being there,

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and again making sure that the tip of the
1st finger is muting that thicker string.

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Doesn't really matter when we play an
E chord, but it matters

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when we play other chords.

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So, then, 3rd finger is going down in the
9th fret of the 4th string,

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little finger is going down in the 9th
fret of the 2nd string,

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now...

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that would be the whole chord,
so we've got like

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nothing on the thicker string, 7-9-7-9-7
would be the fret numbers.

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Now I often don't like the sound of that
thinnest... that B at the end

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so a little trick for you sometimes is

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I play a little barre there
with the first finger,

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but I'm lifting that knuckle up,
this one here

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I'm lifting that up a little bit so that
the thinner string is actually muted,

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so if I strum it we get...

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and the thinner string is not there.

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I quite like the sound of that, not having
that B on the top,

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the same with the E9 we had two types,
so with the E7 we can have all the notes,

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or we can stop it at the 2nd string...

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and this leads us very nicely onto our
last chord for this session, which is a

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E11, or an E7sus4, depending on who... 
either one is correct really,

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which is exactly the same as our E7 but we

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just move our little finger forward
one fret...

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There's E7, so E7sus4 or E11...

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and E7...

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Now, if you put these in a particular
order, you can end up with a really cool

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chord scale, so if we had here
E7... E9 (the first one I showed you)...

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E7...

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E11...

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E9 (the second one)...

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and the E13...

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hopefully you can hear the top note is
playing like a little scale...

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Again...

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And that's one of the big tricks to making
melodies out of your funk chords is having

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all of those melody notes available.

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Before you get going and trying to learn
the rhythm,

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it's a really good idea to practice up
those chords.

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We're mainly gonna be using the 9th chord
(the 2nd version of the 9th chord)

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when we start learning our funk
rhythm guitar,

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but have a practice of all of them,
practice between them,

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it's quite challenging for these things,
especially when you have to change them

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quite fast, in a kind of a funky way,
you don't have a lot of time so just

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find a couple of 'em that you think sound
good together

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and practice moving one to the next,
one to the next.

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Use the one-minute changes, which I think
is a video lesson here called

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"How to Make Your Chord Changes Faster".

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That would be a really good thing for you
check out too.

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So, have a bit of fun with those chords
and I'll see you very soon for some

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basic funk rhythm guitar.

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Take care of yourselves.

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(wombat noises)