(Justin) Hi, how're you doing?
Justin here, again
for part three of our funk guitar series.
What I'm going to do in this lesson
is take you through some of the ways that
you might use the chords and the rhythms
that we've already looked at
and how you might put them together
to make up some little grooves.
There's a few problems
that you're going to encounter
so I would like to kind of help you out
and show you how you are going to get through
those little hassles as you come to them.
I figured that learning some grooves
might be a good way to do that.
So the first pattern we are going to look at,
is kind of a James Brown-y style one.
We're going to be using the 9th chord
that we were using for the rhythm guitar
to start off with.
What we are going to be doing
is we are going to be using the 2nd funk pattern
that we looked at for the first two beats.
And then, the 3rd rhythm pattern
for the 3rd beat.
Let me play it for you a couple of times really slow, so it's going to have
[guitar strumming]
1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4
Down, down, down
Up.
Down, down, down
Up.
Down, down, down
Up.
[guitar strumming faster]
Ok now, that's the first pattern.
So practice that through really really slowly.
Get used to the idea of adding that little finger on there for the 13th chord.
Pretty straight forward.
Now, just at the end of that
I started to do something else which is going to be pattern 2
that I am going to show you now
or Groove 2 let's call it.
And what we're after now
is being able to hold that 13th chord
for the three 16th notes rather than actually hitting it every time.
So the important thing to get used to here
is the fact that your right hand
is still not going to stop moving.
That's really really really important.
The right hand, or strumming hand,
is going to be moving even though
you're not touching the strings
just like you might have done with ties
in your regular kind of chord strumming.
In this one, we are going to be doing
with the clicks on everything except
in beat 3 where we hold the 13th chord.
We go down, then we're going to lift the hand up.
It's going to go back down
and then the up will go back to the 9th.
So it will be down, up
[guitar strumming]
Down, up, down, up
That's just beat 3.
So just listen to it now, I'll do it really slowly.
[guitar strumming]
1, 2 ,3 and 4
1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4 , 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4 , 1 2 3 4
Down, Down, Down, Up
[guitar strumming faster]
Down, Down, Down, Up
That kind of groove.
Again make sure you practice these things really slowly.
Don't try to rush up and do it really fast because
you'll probably make a whole heap of mistakes.
Occasionally you might get a little bit of an extra chord on one of the strums
you didn't want, or the chord will hang around for a bit longer
than you meant to press the chord down for. But that's ok!
As long as it sounds good.
So, the trick on that one is keeping that right hand moving.
[guitar strumming]
Down, Down, Down, Up
Hopefully you can see that hand still keeps moving
even though I'm not playing anything.
Down. Sorry, let me start that again.
[guitar strumming]
Down, Down, Down, Up
[guitar strumming]
It's a really really important trick to get used to the idea
that the hand, even though I'm teaching at the moment,
is solid 16th notes strumming, like, chiky chiky chiky chiky
all the time.
You don't actually have to hit the strings every time if you don't want.
Sometimes it sounds a lot better not to.
You might just have...
[guitar strumming]
That was the same pattern without any clicks at all.
[guitar strumming]
The hand still keeps moving though if you just go...
[guitar strumming]
Then, you will never have the proper groove.
You've got to get the hand going and stay going, yeah?
For this groove number 3
we are going to be using rhythm pattern 2
which was the one with just the chord played on the beat
and the rest of the notes muted. This one.
[guitar strumming]
But now what we are going to do
is suss out this how to move the chords
while you're still doing the muted strumming
because what you're going to find, most of you
when you change chords you lift all your fingers off the strings.
But if you are trying to strum continuously
especially if it's fast, if you lift
your string fingers off the strings
you get all the open strings ringing out which sounds really horrible.
So what you have to learn to do
is to be able to move from one chord to another
while leaving your fingers touching the strings all the time,
so, they never leave.
Kind of sounds easy, but once you start doing it
you'll find that your fingers can quite easily get tied into knots.
It's not that difficult if you do it slowly
and work on trying to make sure
that the muted click noises are always there
and that you don't let any of those open strings get out.
So, what we're going to be doing for this one is
doing the first 9th chord that I showed you
which was the one with the two outside E strings muted
and going to the 7th chord which is part of the C shape.
Now I'm going to a little close up of this
so you can see exactly how my hand is working
and how it's touching the strings all the time.
But the idea would be, just be going...
[guitar strumming]
Change
9, 9, 7, 7
9, 9, 7
[guitar strumming faster]
Fairly straightforward.
Let me do a little close up
so you can the way my hand has to move around
but still remaining in contact with the strings.
[Justin] Here we are with our 9th chord shape,
the one using the little finger as well.
And we play that once.
Then we've got all of these mutes
where the fingers have to move around
to our 7.
So...
[guitar strumming]
There you're doing it in really slow motion.
[guitar strumming]
It's quite tricky. You're just letting them kind of glide around.
They're in contact with the strings though all the time
If I do it at normal speed now.
[guitar strumming]
It's quite tricky to get those fingers to stay on the strings
all the time. But it just takes a bit of practice.
I'm just going to show you one more really quickly
to finish off with, which is using nearly all of the chords
that we've done so far in one little groove.
So, what we're going to be doing is, we're going to be doing E7
[guitar strumming]
E9 with the little finger
E7
E13 to E9
Now the pattern is going to be
[guitar strumming]
1, 2, 3, 4
9, 2, 3, 4
7, 2, 3, 4
There's going to be an upstroke with the 13.
And you're going to have one muted down strum
and then,
an up, which will be the beat 2.
16th note 2 of beat 4.
This is going to be on the website with little markings
like a tab kind of system for you to see exactly what's going on.
Sounds like
[guitar strumming]
Let me give you a quick close up of that.
It's going to be going 7
[guitar strumming]
9, 7, 13, 9
7
[guitar strumming]
I know that last one is a little bit tricky.
You'll have to check the website for a proper tab on that
because I'm running out of time for this lesson.
So I hope that's given you a bit of an insight
into how to use those chords and stuff that we've done so far.
I'll be doing the more advanced lessons very soon
I've run out of time today, but, I will get on to them
as soon as possible.
And, hopefully, you'll be funking your butt off.
Have a good one, dudes. Take care of yourselves.
Funk out. See you soon. Bye Bye.