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In this video. Cory gives us some brilliant tips on how to improve your funky playing. From right hand technique, to chord voicings.

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00:00there's a lot of people that ask me like what's the main thing that I can do to

00:04sound like you on funk guitar or whatever and then I'll hear them play

00:08and there's two common things that I hear that I will initially try to get

00:13somebody to just tweak a little bit and again it doesn't mean that it's better

00:16because it's the way that I do it it's just different it's the way that I do

00:19things and normally that's what people are asking how do you do what you do

00:23doesn't mean that it's better or worse it's just the way that I do things the

00:28number one thing is timing most people their time is not amazing and they're

00:33not as focused on their rhythm and the right hand is a little bit sloppy so the

00:38number one thing I always tell people to practice is play with a metronome get

00:42your timing exactly on and just try to get this motor thing running where you

00:48just

00:50no matter what style you're playing having that motor going being able to

01:01play in time is really

01:02it's still the same technique as

01:11just having a steady down up down up down up approach really then also makes

01:22it so you don't have to think about what is the strumming pattern it's just

01:26anytime it's one e and uh anytime it's a number or an and it's a down stroke

01:32anytime it's an e or uh it's an upstroke makes it super simple you don't have to

01:36think about it and then the next thing is a lot of times what I'll see people do

01:41with their left hand is they do they don't do enough muting and they hold on

01:46to the notes a little too long for my taste so for example some time and and

01:51they'll play really thick voicings so sometimes I'll see somebody playing like

01:56a fifth a sixth string rooted a seven chord like this and they'll play the

02:03entire voicing and they'll do something like this

02:10there the right hand thing I had the motor running but that doesn't feel good

02:18to me because the left hand nuance is not doing any favors for the fact that my

02:23right hand is still playing in time so even though my right hand is together the

02:27next thing is to build some nuance in the left hand and one of the biggest

02:31things is to pay a little more attention to the releases of notes so if I were to

02:36just go

02:39it doesn't sound very good but if I go

02:41I'm still just thinking about that same a seven shape I'm just breaking it up into

02:57different little pods and just picking out different notes and little two three

03:02string sections of that voicing so I'm thinking of

03:06and even adding

03:09some of those little extra notes from the scale or just I'm still thinking about the

03:16same voicing but I change my fingering to being more like this

03:18and then adding a little bit of that sort of thing in there the less notes I play

03:26the more it creates space for the other people in the band if I'm covering too much low end

03:32it's going to get in the way of the bass player or the keyboard player

03:35keyboard players have ten fingers and they have a lot of notes they can cover

03:38they can get a huge sound the guitar doesn't always need to play that role

03:43most of the time in funk guitar playing the role is a lot more of a percussive

03:49role and sometimes filling out some harmonic space so I can still get the I

03:53can still accomplish the harmonic sense of a seven but and also kind of cover

03:58the the role of like what bongos or congas or a shaker would do with this

04:03thing so if I think of taking the role of a percussion player and a little bit of

04:11some keyboards for harmonic information and mixing them together it kind of

04:15creates what I do so I'm always thinking about those two things bring

04:19them together so here's that a7 chord right hand motors running I'm breaking up

04:23the this voicing with this extra thing into just little little smaller voicings

04:30within that so here's an example and it ends up a lot of times just sounding

04:49more like a riff which is which can be cool because then you come up with a

04:52specific part that makes it feel signature to the song rather than just

04:57like

04:59which is like I don't know what you're doing you're just jamming on an a7 but if

05:06you go that feels like a phrase it's a musical phrase that can be like the

05:26signature thing for a verse of a song or something and if that's the part you

05:31play it has more intentionality and it's a phrase that makes sense that somebody

05:35can grasp onto it doesn't just sound like jamming on a7 so I guess that turned

05:42into three tips right hand motor running left hand bring in the nuance by not not

05:48feeling like you need to play every note in every string break up your voicings

05:52into little different sections and then the third thing is just play musical

05:57phrases when you play musical phrases it helps enhance a song overall it makes it

06:03feel less like something that's just going on and it gives it a little more

06:07intention

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