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Lesson Sample Jam Track (G Minor Vamp) Teacher: Hey, guys. Tonight we are moving into another common Funk sound, using a minor key center Teacher: OK. The first technique we will look at is 'skank' guitar. This is a typical funky single note sound you get by attacking strings next to your target note Teacher: Important will be left hand muting for this. Here is a picture for the difference between standard and 'skank' position! Support: Welcome, Chuwy. Whisper to me if you have questions on how to use the web site Teacher: Here is a riff to work on this technique Skank Guitar Chuwy: Thanks I'll try to do my best effort. Teacher: Notice the slant of the fret hand to lay against both the string above and below the target note. Also the thumb coming over the neck to help mute the heaviest string or two Teacher: Try each measure slowly by itself. Try to hit the three strings around the fretted note. Getting the characteristic 'thack' sound without ringing open strings. Teacher: Here is a double of the bass line using this technique Skank Guitar Riff Chuwy: I can't get the percusion effect by strings strokes (the "x") Teacher: Another use of this technique is doubling the line with octaves Teacher: You have to be somewhat aggressive in the right hand and give in to being a bit sloppy at first. Octave Lick bart: cool! heywood: are you muting the 4th string w/ yoyr thumb? Chuwy: I got it, really cool! :-) Teacher: on the riff on the 3rd string, the tip of the index finger could mute the 4th string heywood: thx Teacher: Staying on a single minor or minor7 chord has its place. Here are some typical chord voicings that work well. G Minor 7 Chords Teacher: commonly an additional note is added for interest. Minor 6 chords pair well with these m7-m6 Chord Lick Teacher: my computer doesnt like the last tab file for some reason. bart: I couldn't play it Teacher: I will have to look at it. Repost. Try the last lick. Same idea, just fewer notes in the chord voicings. Chord 'partials'. Support: that works Teacher: Triads are must know shapes for funk. You can try any of the following G minor voicings alone with good right hand 16th note strumming. But a popular idea is to pair it with another triad. In a minor key the Major triad down a step from the minor works well Gm-F Triads Teacher: A sample phrase using this Gm-F Chord Lick Teacher: Another idea the works well is the use of the minor triad a step higher that the tonic. In this case A minor Gm-Am Chord Lick bart: what do you mean by "tonic"? Teacher: The 'home' chord. Also in theory called the 'I' chord. Tonight it is G minor Chuwy: I fell like a "Chili Pepper" ;-) bart: ok, got it Teacher: The use of the minor chord and step above the tonic, and the m7-m6 change, implies the notes of the Dorian Mode G Dorian Mode Teacher: A common progression from this to be familiar with is the I minor - IV Major progression. Also typical is I minor - IV Dominant. Gm7-C7 Jam Track Teacher: Here is a Jam Track to practice this familiar sound Gm7-C7 Chord Shapes Teacher: Most of the work from the first two lesson was on dominant chords. So try applying that knowledge to the C7 chord of this Gm-C7 progression. Teacher: You can also use the earlier idea of triads for Dominant chords. Use the Major triad down a step from the root to nicely imply a dominant 7th chord. C-Bb Triads Teacher: Here is their use in a typical lick Chuwy: Why the fingerboard shows "0" (zeros) instead of finder's number? C7 Teacher: I forgot to put them in! We resend later but I must be going now Teacher: Will resend... Teacher: I will leave with some triad shapes to learn and explore. a group for Minor and a group for Major G Minor Triads Support: @ F Major Triads Chuwy: what does mean that, teacher? :-s Teacher: ask support. Teacher: he is where it is @ Support: hit the wrong key Support: sorry, please ignore... Teacher: see you guys. Keep it real and FUNKY this week. Hope to catch you next weeks group lesson or for a private lesson sometime. Chuwy: yeap, no problem... "support" is practicing with his guitar! Support: :-) Teacher: see ya	<< load notation from left
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