Chordplay - 'Finding Funk Guitar Chords'

[@gregorymartin1807]

Great work Dave!

[@gregorymartin1807]

You know Disco can be Funky. Even though Disco killed live music in the late 70's you gotta appreciate the Funky/Disco guitar parts on those Disco songs. Are you with me?

[@LateNightLessons]

Thanks brutha - and oh yeah, I can dig. I guess I really L-O-V-E everything leading up until the big disco ball started spinning. Once the greasy sweat was wiped off by the record industry (stepping in to make a buck), the sound of what was actually "funk" changed, then it quickly became more mainstream and eventually mutated into disco. This mutation seems to happen to funk every 5-7 years (or so). It's always there and lurking around somewhere, but when it makes a noticeable mainstream comeback - usually in a mutated form - it's usually quite different than what my ears actually want. I want that sweaty late '60s-mid-70s funk, keepin' it raw and real. Everything else is cool from every decade, but at the end of the day, THAT'S the time period and style of funk I want in my life. Anywho...thanks broseph and I hope to make it down to your neck of the woods sooner or later - it would be great to catch up! Peace...

[@elizabethanderson2968]

Priceless lesson! The AWB stayed at my father's house in London, UK, when they first came down to London in 71, along with founding members of The Blockheads. Their first LP did nothing and they were dismayed ... then they got a support slot for Eric Clapton @ The Rainbow and were seen by a BBC guy, who got them onto The Old Grey Whistle Test (Our Midnight Special) which was then seen by Jerry Wexler, who in turn asked them over to your side of the pond, wherein they signed to Atlantic and ... the rest is history! Unfortunately, they all overdosed on snowballs @ Sonny and Cher's party and lost their original drummer, Robbie Mcintosh, who was funky as F... but the show rolled on.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Dude!! _"Like the Beverley Hill Billies is gettin ready to go to a commercial"_ made me almost spit tea on my Strat. 4:33

[@STAMPER-DESIGN]

Been obsessed with funk for 25 years, playing it, listening to it and still learning. Great video, as all your videos are, thanks for posting it.

[@Rayram555]

Enlightened by your video. Engaging also. Thank you . Im a big fan of this channel.

[@davidsmith-jj4iq]

Prince, RHCP, EWF,Nuno Bettencourt too,all good stuff.

[@Scottocaster6668]

Da da dadadada...."Kiss!"😀

[@mattsimper6585]

Fantastic talk. Dave seems like he may have been feeling a little "funky" in this lesson.

[@dennydabbs9272]

Love the Classical, Hard Rock, and Metal Lessons and want more but also want you to Break the Funk Out. Pretty Damn Cool.. Thanks Dave

[@voronOsphere]

Great lesson, David! Thanks!!!

[@Spet666]

nice one.... as always.... thanks!

[@mikeivey8471]

Yessir !! Thank you for this video !! Love the Funk !! Please bring us more of this type of lesson ?! Great job , David !!

[@bossjazzguitarplayer3052]

Cool playing and demo playing the funk from a player over 45 years you got it man keep sharing.

[@koho]

Great intro, as always. Attempting to learn funk strumming and muting probably did more for my overall playing than any other single thing.

[@brianbeavers9660]

I liked it, continue to pursue "funk"......

[@elklakeradio8776]

Man! These are great lessons... so glad I found you, and great conversational teaching style. Thank you!

[@rickbarnett6061]

really nice lesson and the whole series of lessons is going to be on my must watch list

[@vasilikiramopoulou7904]

nice video! I agree with you on the disco thing!

[@burnsZY85]

Guthrie Govan's 32nd note strumming is amazing, would like to see you doing an episode on him.

[@davidbaron8330]

I'm not a big disco fan either, but Nile Rogers is one of the kings of this style.

[@MetaphysicalMusician]

Disco died in the 70s..Disco and Funk are VERY DIFFERENT..It's like comparing the Partridge family to Sabbath

[@royaiken1811]

Thanks for your excellent review.

[@baptistem7341]

Great lesson Dude, thanks a lot !!! :)

[@Scottocaster6668]

Im constantly using the"Hendrix" 70's chord. It just feels natural to me, which reminds me on maybe doing a LNL on Paul Kossoff. The song "Mr.Big" came to mind. He is another great one on my list. A good vibrato fretting hand lesson for us👍. Thanks again brother!

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

It can make a nice substitution for the V chord in a jazzy blues.

[@protodiacre9458]

Thanks Dave! Jazz chords please!!! :)

[@MetaphysicalMusician]

Theres also pocket and feel....feel is the most important thing that most people miss.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Metronome. I only wish I had started using one right away as a kid.

[@pauldeitz8202]

Any chance of doing some Trapeze especially from You Are The Music LP

[@ryanstaggs5956]

Leo Nocentelli/Meters Chord Play?

[@LateNightLessons]

Now we're talkin'! I LOVE funk and The Meters kick butt! I'll add them to the list and thanks again! Take care! : )

[@miettoisdev]

very nice playing and chords! maybe lighter gauge strings, compressor, clean valve amp?

[@brianbeavers9660]

Wow, didn't realize that this was 3 yrs ago......

[@keithjai8111]

Is the book “Muting The Guitar” still available?

[@poslal7430]

Thanks for funk lesson! Hope you will do the lesson about Hillel Slovak.

[@andychase7693]

Funk guitar: "like the Beverly Hillbillies going to a commercial"!? WTF! A metaphor like no other! Brewster, you're one unique dude! NIce funk riffage though! A crucial and underused element (especially among rock guitarists) in hip phrasing.

[@tubui8830]

More funk pls sir

[@Scottocaster6668]

Only thing I like about disco is the bass lines, it has a great groove.

[@MetaphysicalMusician]

Disco is not Funk..its .like saying Ozzy is Taylor swift

[@MetaphysicalMusician]

"Everything (instrument) is drums".James Brown

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

He's not wrong. If the rhythm isn't there as a base, it's never gonna sound good no matter what anyone plays. The first thing I tell any student who wants to learn to play lead guitar is they will have to be better at rhythm than the rhythm player. It's also not often I see a guitarist take up drums and sound good almost immediately, whereas the opposite is really common. One of the best drummers I ever played with had no idea of how any scale, chord, inversion, or lick of any sort was constructed, yet when he would walk by a piano he would play some wicked line that I would spend the next month trying to memorize and be able to play, only to later find out he was "accidentally" using all sorts of complex jazz lines using chord substitutions and passing tones that made sense more often than not (and rarely sticking to C Major).

[@seanhayes2998]

All the way through this I could barely concentrate on what you were saying thinking "he's gonna do Eddie, he's gonna do Eddie". Then you just breezed on past!! argghh. You gotta do a deeper dive into Eddie Hazel some day.

[@voronOsphere]

You probably saw his great "Chords of Funkadelic" Chordplay Video by now. Lots of Eddie Hazel in that one!

[@seanhayes2998]

@@voronOsphere Yep. That was a good one!

[@td_gtr_plyr]

Great episode. How about doing a country chicken pickin episode sometime?

[@AntwhaleNearfar]

This guy could explain quantum physics to me and I’d understand it as well as Neil deGrasse Tyson does after he was through.

[@daveqr]

Crazy Train is disco. Listen again, you'll see I'm right

[@jorhay1]

Too much talk, not enough funk.