My first guitar teacher was and still is a great funk player. I’d go see him play at the local venues where I remember being blown away by the sheer number of chords he seemed to know when playing funk-style rhythms. In the beginning, of course, these things look mind-boggling to say the least, and it wasn’t until a few years later that I realized where he was getting all those chords from.
My first attempts at learning funk guitar were kind of disappointing. I would learn a ton of chords, then try to hear them in the context, but I could never quite get it to sound like the stuff my guitar teacher was doing. It wasn’t until a few years later, when I’d gotten a lot more playing under my belt, that I realized he wasn’t playing loads of
Chord! I should have realized of course, but I couldn’t see the wood for the trees as I was so fixated on learning as many different chords as possible.
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Once this had dawned on me I looked at the classic funk chords again, but this time from a holistic perspective. Here’s E9 all over the fretboard:
The first thing to realize is that the funky chords are above the E9 chord in the direction of the green arrow, and the not-so-funky chords are below the E9 chord in the direction of the red arrow—a funk traffic light, if you will. The reason for this is that in funk you don’t need to play an awful lot of big old chords, and the further up the neck you go, the tighter things get and the less you tend to play. Down at the bottom of the neck it’s going to sound too heavy in a band situation.
So, if you’re playing on an E9 chord for a while, which happens a lot in funk as most grooves are basically two or three-chord vamps, and you get bored, you can always play fragments of the chord higher up the neck. Basically, any group of 2 or 3 notes from the above diagram will sound light and funky as a variation on that E9 shape. Here are a few you could use:
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As you can see, there’s plenty of scope for coming up with 2 and 3-note stabs to complement that E9 chord, especially on the top 4 strings. Use the lower strings to throw in single note lines in between chord stabs too.
You can do this with any funk chord, the only prerequisite being that you know where all the chord tones are above the chord you’re playing, which is why we’ve included a handy free PDF below with plenty of funk chord for you to practice with. Feel free to right click and download, and print it out to get funky!Today’s lesson will finish our introduction to funk guitar by recapping the main elements seen throughout the course. We will begin with a classic disco-style chord progression in Dm, and apply four different ways to approach playing the chords.
These four ways include a Nile Rodgers style chord trick, triads, double stops and a single note pattern. Remember that the fundamental principle to funk guitar is to provide the backbone groove to any track, only use alterations and tricks as the icing on the cake!
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Our chord progression today is a simple ‘7th’ barre chord progression popular in disco and funk guitar. The progression naturally leaves rests to allow for alterations in later examples. When building your funk chord progressions, it is a good idea to leave rests in the early stages, that way you can build multiple ideas from one progression.
In this example, we use a two finger hammer-on technique on the Dm7 chord. This technique was made famous by the legendary Nile Rodgers. The rest of the progression is the same as in example one with the exception of the slide into the Bbmaj7 at the end of bar four. Make sure you watch the YouTube video to see how I apply a hammer-on technique.
Three note chords or ‘triads’ are a fun way to create funk guitar chord progressions. In example three I took the main chord sequence seen in example one but made each chord into triads shapes based on the top three strings.
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In example four I added in some two-note double stops to the same progression. These notes come from the underlying D natural minor scale (D E F G A Bb C). Although this double stop pattern is very straightforward, you can create very complex patterns if necessary.
The final example in this lesson introduces single note fills into our chord sequence. These notes are from the D minor pentatonic scale ( D F G A C) and the D blues scale (D F G Ab A C). Try applying these ideas to your funk guitar chord progressions. Remember rhythm guitar never needs to be boring!
For classic Funk Guitar licks, I recommend buying the album “Nile Rodgers Presents – The Chic Organization.” My favourite track on that album being “Cut The Cake.”
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Hi YouTube, Simon here once again for Fundamental Changes. Today we’re looking at part 10, and the final part to our Introduction to Funk. Let’s go and have a look at some examples of that next.
Today we’re looking at this sequence of chords here, and we’re going to look at different adaptions to this sequence of chords.
String root bar chord shape, A minor bar chord shape minus the little finger, nothing, 5-7-5-6-5, then we’ve got an A minor 7 there, 5
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String, E minor shape minus little finger, 5-7-5-5-5-5 (all the way 5, all the way through), a B flat major 7 on the 6
Time through. We’ve got the same last 2 chords, the A minor 7 and the B flat major 7, but up an octave on your 4
That’s your main sequence there, nice and relaxed, and then we’re going to look at some different chord alterations, triads, double stops, and single note popping ideas after this.
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We’ve got our very simple sequence that we looked at in Example 1, and now we’re adding in a little bit of Nile Rodgers-style flair.
We’re adding in a double hammer-on of the fingers into the A minor 7 shape, D minor 7 there. You’re hammering in from all the 5s across there. You’re going to hammer into the 7
String there to get that classic Nile flavor. Then you’re adding in your little finger there on the top string, and then into the 2
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The A minor 7 and the B flat the same, and the same little D minor 7 riff there, and then the A minor 7, and then sliding in 1 fret below the B flat major 7 there. So, showing a little bit more flair around that D minor 7 chord, showing you that you can mix up your chord sequences quite quickly.
Example 3 uses triads. It’s basically the top 3 strings – strings 1, 2, and 3 of each of the chords that you’ve been looing at. You’ve got the 1
Chord, is a D minor, or D minor 7 if you like, top 3 strings, 7-6-5. Then we’ve got an A minor 5-5-5, we’ve got a B flat major – We did have a major 7, we’ve just added in an extra note because we didn’t have it there – 7-6-6, back to the D minor again, 7-6-5, then we’ve got the top parts of the other 2 chords, 9-8-8, and 10-10-10 at the top 3 strings there.
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As we’ve looked at in previous lessons, double stops can provide really, really solid funk ideas. Now, what I’ve done here is I’ve just added in some double stops between each of these chords here, or between some of these chords here.
Again we’ve got our D minor 7 – our same pattern going on – then we start these little double stops on the D minor. We’ve got 5 on the 3 or the G, 6 on 2 or the B, and then we’re moving that up 2 frets in the 7-8, and back A minor 7 as normal, B flat major 7. Then we come back to the D minor, we’ve got the top 2 strings 6 and 8, 8-10-8 there. We’re filling up the notes of the scale using double stops in D minor, and then the same little part coming up the neck here that we’ve had all the way through, and then the final thing we’ve got 10 and 12, 10 and 13. Little mini double stop fills there through this section.
Hopefully now you’re starting to see, you can have your chord sequence, you can add in flair to the chord sequence, hammer-ons, pull offs, slides, whatever you like. You can add in triad, you can add in double stops.
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The final one we’re going to look at next is just some single notes in there too. Let’s go and have a look at that.
Now we’re filling in the gaps with some single note ideas. Once again, all around D minor, D minor pentatonic.
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