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Funk Rhythm Guitar - Singe Notes + Octaves

Instructor: Martin Miller Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Funk

Tutorial: Funk Rhythm Guitar

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Lesson Excerpt: All the examples in this tutorial are over the same II-V-I chord progression (Dm7-G7-Cmaj7). Here are the first 3 examples... Example ASingle notes can often be enough. Here I use a note (C) that is common to all the chords and a little fill towards the end of the bars. The sound is created by using some heavy palm muting.  Example BSame as Example A but without the palm muting. Mute all other strings with your left hand so you can punch t...
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