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Funk in the Trunk
Sean Conklin
Funk in the Trunk! Every once in a while, I get a crazy urge to play some funk music. This is a short piece I wrote that focuses on some fundamental funk guitar elements. So grab your guitar, break out the disco ball, and let's get going!
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Lesson · 1m Funk in the Trunk - Full Video
Funk in the Trunk! Every once in a while, I get a crazy urge to play some funk music. This is a short piece I wrote that focuses on some fundamental funk guitar elements. So grab your guitar, break out the...
Tab Guitar Pro
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Lesson Funk in the Trunk - Exercise 1
Make sure you keep an extremely tight rhythm sound with this riff as well as the remaining riffs in the piece. Funk music is all about groove and tight rhythm with the drums and bass. Drums and bass drive funk...
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Lesson Funk in the Trunk - Exercise 2
Now, we're basically taking the exact rhythm from the previous riff, and adding more funk flavor to it. First thing to do is make sure you're comfortable playing the E minor bar chord on the 7th fret. Make...
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Lesson Funk in the Trunk - Exercise 3
Here, we have a little bit of fingerpicking while we go back and forth between some Major chords. First, we're trading off with A Major and Ab Major. Then next, we trade off between C Major and B Major. While...
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Lesson Funk in the Trunk - Exercise 4
Now we get into the super funky part. This is actually very similar to the riff we played in Exercise 2, except we're adding in some key melodic notes at the end of each measure. Look at the end of each...
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Lesson Funk in the Trunk - Exercise 5
Here, we have a bluesy melody line to finish up the piece. This riff revolves around the 1st and 5th modes of the E minor pentatonic scale. Be sure to notice how you won't be picking every single note in this...
Tab
- 7 1:07 Backing track · 1m Funk in the Trunk - Backing Track Now, it's time to play this funky tune for 5 hours straight and invite all your friends to your house for a dance party. Have fun! And if you make an audio or video recording of you playing along, be sure to... Tab
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