Side Steppin'- A Funk Rhythm Guitar MUST HAVE Technique

[@mdallen5]

Thank you again! So glad I bought your book too!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

thank you, enjoy the ebook!

[@GuitarguyRichard56]

This is such a fun channel So many great riffs to learn! Fantastic job

[@TastyGuitarcom]

thank you!

[@letsplayguitar2051]

First chops of the day! Thanks, fun to play them all.

[@Feedback406]

One of the Best channels ever so glad I found you!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Glad you found my channel too!

[@jimbeaux4988]

These examples are simply delightful!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thanks Jim!

[@OriginalOldSkoolFunk]

Beautiful guitar and sweet tone. As usual, great funky lesson. Keep it Tasty, Maestro...! 👊🏾

[@TastyGuitarcom]

thanks oldskool!

[@MarkMcCluney]

Gosh! Do I ever hear The Meters in that opening example! Thank you Rick, always a pleasure to be at your masteclass.

[@TastyGuitarcom]

thanks Mark!

[@arijitdas7608]

Excellent illustration

[@jonathanavery7583]

Chika-chika bow-wow. Sweet Rick. This is awesome dude.

[@matheusdecarvalho4240]

Hey!! just discovered your channel and i am really enjoying it, please keep up the funk! greetings from Brazil

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Glad you found it!

[@leftyshep]

Quickly becoming my favorite channel! Thanks for all your great lessons and content!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Right on, thank you!

[@oscariglesias5529]

Wow! I've just discovered your channel today and I am really impressed, Rick... Incredible stuff! Thanks a lot! Please keep up the amazing work! Greetings from Spain!!!!!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thank you Oscar, glad you found my channel!

[@MarkRhodesSongs]

Great lesson. Love that funky stuff.

[@cornellellis]

Love your playing and skills. I would love to know about your gear. Thank you 🙏🏾 ...

[@TastyGuitarcom]

on this video I'm playing a Sjuman SQ16 guitar into the Suhr Bella amp with an xotic ep booster and strymon flint reverb, think that was it

[@brendaboykin3281]

Thanx, Maestro.

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thank you for watching Brenda!

[@MichaelMiller-wp4ir]

Wow, awesome funk licks!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thanks for watching!

[@Geetarhed]

Fantastic teacher, pro player

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thank you Rob!

[@gwohi]

Great Lesson. Fantastic! Thank you!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

thank you for watching!

[@s.trottier3239]

That's so funky, the socks in the trunk of my car are jealous!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Haha this comment made my day

[@annie4971]

Awesome lesson Rick thanks😘

[@TastyGuitarcom]

thanks Anne!

[@Tobby4063]

Awesome lesson. So funky. Gonna try these out now!!

[@MrJoeyBoombotz]

Best lesson ever!! Thank you.

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Right on, glad you dig!

[@downhill240]

Excellent lesson!

[@sonicbridge1944]

Drop it in the slot and chop it up! Great stuff, Rick.

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thanks sonicbridge!

[@AllanGildea]

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! What a great start to the weekend! I saw Nile Rodgers and Chic play in Belfast last week. You'd have fitted right in!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

ahh man would have loved to have been at that show!

[@brianwarner308]

Rick that guitar is awesome!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

I agree!

[@Tejanista]

Another great and insightful lesson! Thank you for all the exemplary lessons and for sharing your talent with all aspiring guitarists!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

happy to help!

[@raulrenanda8927]

That's my hand sketches btw on Sjuman guitar ;-)

[@RIFFSTUDIO1]

Great quality material!!! Very musical well played and well explained. Congrats and keep it up with the great job!!!Cheers from Rio

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thank you!

[@usmc1875]

Sir this is wonderful!, I've been learning lots of Tower of Power songs and it's amazing how often this happens on their songs:) totally recommend tower of power ,great pieces of art harmonically and in every aspect that you may need practicing, each song has something different to make you think about:)

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thanks Lucas, yeah TOP is one of my favorite bands!

[@dersacrakinebrizin5380]

2 dislikes? I´m guessing the same dude with two accounts disliking every amazing video

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Haha yep

[@Jh0st]

Fantastic lessons, super clear and super funky! Question for you and community: what weight pick do you recommend, especially for fast, syncopated skank strumming? The reason I'm asking is that lighter picks seem much easier, but don’t want to be limited to them when mixing in melodic fills.

[@TastyGuitarcom]

I used a pretty heavy Clayton 1.52 teardrop. It's all personal preference really but I prefer the punchy attack and tone I get with heavy picks. I suggest you also check out my lesson "this technique hurts.." for another Technique for skank strumming

[@Jh0st]

@@TastyGuitarcom yes, saw that and now am developing a very useful callus after the initial pain ;-}

[@georgetheodorakis869]

Great stuff Rick!!! Are the last examples some kind of mixodorian?

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Yeah kinda, thinking more of a dominant chord groove with minor color....mixing the 2 scales together

[@jeffunderwood6235]

Man those are some tasty licks brother!! Happy Friday to you

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thanks Jeff!

[@swaroov9236]

Man, you are great

[@TheSebtrain]

Yeah man, awesome 🙌🏻🙏cheers

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thanks!

[@stratman2023]

Just subscribed to your channel. Fantastic! What is the guitar (and pickups) you are using for this lesson? Very funky.

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thanks! This is a Sjuman sq16 guitar. A really great value guitar from Indonesia. I did a full review, check my gear review playlist

[@iwanaltajaru7152]

I now this is a Syman Guitar....nice sound

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Sjuman, yeah it's a great guitar!

[@mortenholmsoeby]

Really nice. What guitar is it you're playing?

[@TastyGuitarcom]

This is an Indonesian company named Sjuman Instruments that makes really nice handmade guitars. Check out the review I did on it. You can also find them on Instagram

[@mindcontrol67]

Ala Meters people say. Love this stuff,Thanks!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

thanks for watching!

[@thegreatestdao]

This is really tasty!!!!!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thank you!

[@EdoinLA]

You are very rapidly becoming my favorite guitar instructor, stellar playing!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

thank you Edo!

[@Hutch82UK]

GOLD Rick

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thank you!

[@1111MJR]

Hi Rick, I’m pretty much getting a handle on this - great lesson. Could you please do one on using a Wahwah pedal to play funk? I could do with some tips.

[@mindciller]

I'm a noob guitarist. I read some music for piano. Should I even bother with tabs? Or learn both while I progress. For sax I prefer just reading the music and re writing it in letters lol. And for harmonica I prefer a tab system they use. I could probably learn guitar tabs too just wondering

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Tab only gets you so far, you need to at least be able to read note values in notation to understand the duration of notes which tab alone doesn't give you.

[@dougriddle8422]

Hell. Ya.

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thanks Doug!

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

Do you have any idea what it was like in the 70s trying to learn this stuff off records by ear?

[@TastyGuitarcom]

For me it was cassettes, but yeah players these days got it easy

[@karimgandoura6124]

👍👍

[@frankymarino6420]

It s dificult ,à Nice lecon

[@nerad1994]

How can I improve my funk tone? Using a strat in clean neck pickup with compression

[@TastyGuitarcom]

There is no one way to get "funk tone" alot of it is personal preference. I myself dont use compression as I feel it kills dynamics. I like to have my clean tone on the edge of breakup with a good tube amp, even eq, not too bright, nice mids and not muddy. A little reverb. At least that's what works for me.

[@strone1]

new guitar? don't remember seeing this one before...

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Yeah, I did a review on this guitar a while back, check it out here kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmWxiaSNi5J-e7c

[@loontil]

sa-weet!

[@primateproductions126]

That was funk’in delicious!! 🍌👍

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thank you!

[@heiah]

Excuse me, what’s that bridge you got on that guitar?

[@TastyGuitarcom]

They are called Ganee pickups, bridge has some real bite

[@heiah]

@@TastyGuitarcom thanks for the reply. Although, I wasn’t asking about the pickup, but the actual bridge itself. I like the saddle design and that it has no rim

[@TastyGuitarcom]

@@heiah oh ok, it is made by Aldridge Empire

[@Firetuna1]

Great! But I don´t get how to download the backing track?

[@TastyGuitarcom]

please go to tastyguitar.com scroll to the bottom of the page and sign up for free, you will then receive an email with a link to the scubscribers area, follow the link and scroll down the page you will see a player withe the backing tracks where you can download that one and many others, thank you!

[@citoyendumonde9083]

Seems easy but you need first to be possessed by this evil's fonk rhythm! ;-) Great video!

[@TastyGuitarcom]

That helps

[@jrraillh3040]

The link to check out the gear he's using isnt recognized by amazon

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Strange, guess its not been active so they must have discontinued it. It shows suhr bella amp xotic ep booster, flint reverb

[@1NSPskate]

The closet term for your slide is glissando /ɡlɪˈsandəʊ/ Learn to pronounce Music noun: glissando; plural noun: glissandi; plural noun: glissandos Defined as; a continuous slide upwards or downwards between two notes. The difference here is your slides are brief. BTW Nice palying

[@elldarrio2451]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😁

[@fernandoesteban7117]

live

[@freddylopez7536]

Too hip Rick

[@TastyGuitarcom]

Thanks Freddy!