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[Guitar funk music]

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Hi, how you doing? Justin here!

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This is now part four of my little series

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on funk guitar and today we are going to be

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looking at some more funk chords

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Some new voicings for dominant 7th chord

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that you might want to try using

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in your funk play.

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Hopefully you've been through the other

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lessons already, cause these new chords are

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a little bit harder to use. Well actually they're

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not that much harder to use, but you'd be

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better off getting the basic chords down first.

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Go and check that out if you haven't already

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So, basically we're looking now at more

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E-dominant chords. So in the

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E-dominant chord family we have

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E7, E9, E11, E13, and E7 sus 4.

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So what I'm going to do is show you some more

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cool funky little chord rifts that you might

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want to try out , so lets get to a closeup and

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I'll show you some of these cool new chords.

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K, the first chord that we're using here

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This is a little E7 cord. [strums guitar]

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and we're starting here with the first finger

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on the root note, which is the note E,

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second fret on the 4th string.

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We're going 2nd fret, 4th fret, 3rd fret, 4th fret.

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[strums guitar]

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Very funky cool little chord this one.

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Now another good chord within this sort of shape

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is moving this little finger forward one fret

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and you get an E7 sas 4

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[plays guitar]

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Very very cool little

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[plays guitar]

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nice little grip those 2 little E7 sus 4 and regular E7.

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and regular E7

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Now, we've already looked at E9

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a couple different variations of that

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E13, up here. So we've kind of

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got a few in this rough area.

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There's one that I really like [strums guitar]

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This is an E13 chord. It's got a D in the base

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It's got the flat 7 in the base there

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So it's going 5, 6, 6, 5

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You have to be a bit careful with this because

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the lowest note, the base note is an E

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It can sound a bit weird so it's quite common

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to jump and go [strums guitar]

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E9 is the main chord and just jumpin off

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into this E13 chord. It does sound...

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It's a lovely sounding chord. Remember because

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we're in E, we can hit that low bass note there

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as well if we want. Very groovy little chord.

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[strums guitar] We've got those E9,

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E13 that we looked at before.

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The next one that I'm going to show you

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This is a very cool little chord [strums guitar]

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It's kind of a bluesy 7th chord

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The root note is here on the 3rd string

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And we just go this is our study on

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the 4th string we've got 9, 9, 9, 10

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[plays guitar]

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Which of course works really well with

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we've got our E9 down here

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you can have like [plays guitar]

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Lots of nice little ways of incorporating this

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little 7th chord in

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Now of course we've got these

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other 2 little chord voicings up here

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These are a little bit awkward for some

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people to get to but they're not that hard

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Just takes a little bit of getting your fingers

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used to playing them

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What we've got here is standing on the

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4th string here with the 3rd finger

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we've got 12th fret, 11th fret, 9th fret, 12th fret

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[strums guitar]

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Very very nice little grip this one

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and that's a 9th chord that's an E9

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Now you can also move the first

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finger forward and you've kind of got

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E9 sus or E11

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[strums guitar]

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So E9, E11

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and again just to tie into the other ones

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If you down here

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[plays guitar]

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Lots of different ways that you can start to

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muck around with using this

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E11, E9, E7, E13

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Now actually I'll explain this one seperately

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So in the last lesson we looked at E9

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as being played like this or like this

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Now another really common way of playing

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it is just like this without the base notes

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So the root note is here

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just as we normally play it like that

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But you can leave that out as well

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and that can be quite funky

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and also sometimes use your second finger

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instead of your third finger

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Which makes it easier to get that little

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13th hold that way you can hit the low

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E base not in the key of E but you

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couldn't in other keys

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You can now use this to get chord scales

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For example, playing we're going up the

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mixalidian mode on the thinner string

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going [plays chord]

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Which would be E7, E11, E9, E13, E7, E9*

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and using that you can create little melodies

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[plays guitar]

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Like I just showed you at the end there

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There are infinite number of ways of

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putting these chords together

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It's just something that's improvised

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and you can learn set patterns and in

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fact in the next lesson I'm gonna show you

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a few more set grooves that i think kind of

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work well. But a really big part of playing

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in this style is you experimenting with how

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you put those chords together

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Experimenting with the rhythms we've

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covered already and then just mucking

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around with changing between the different

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chords and seeing what ways you can try

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and put them together

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It's lost of fun and it means as well as a

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lot of fun tunes, not just 1 chord for ages

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If you got a lot of the James Brown songs

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1 chord like E9 safe for the whole song

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So if you've got a whole bunch of

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different chords that you can use

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It really opens up what you can play

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Now in the little kind of demo I did

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a minute ago or whatever, I was using

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loads and loads of different chords

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And you probably wouldn't want to do that

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Because it just sounds a bit silly

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It's too much, you don't need to use

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so many colors all at the same time

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It ends up just sounding messy

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You're better off picking just a few

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different chords and putting them together

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in a group. Not tryna show off how

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many chords you know

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I was just tryna give you a bit of a look

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into see some of the different ways

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that you could use those chords

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Check out those chords, get them

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under your fingers and then when

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you feel up for it join me

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for the next part where we'll

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look at some more proper funk grooves

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See ya soon, take care, bye bye