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Jam Sessions -
Funk Style - Lesson 7
Lyle: Grab your guitar and
jam along! Join in on these jam sessions, which are designed to teach you theory
and technique, rhythm riffs, chords, scales, riffs, and solos, as you play along
to the jam tracks. Listen or watch the media clips below to see and hear what
you'll learn in this lesson: Jam Sessions - Funk Style - Lesson 7
Jam Sessions -
Funk Style - Lesson 7
Lyle: Hello and welcome to this jam
session. What makes this jam funky is the drums and the funky little rhythm
guitar riffs. Here's your jam track that you'll use for this
lesson:
Jam Track
in Em
Lyle:
The jam track is made from just 4 simple chords:
chord
chart
chords
chords
Lyle:
The funk rhythm riffs are made from notes in the E minor pentatonic scale. They
are also made in the "theme and variation" type of composition. It starts off
withh a simple riff that ends up as being the theme, then new riffs are added
and you'll keep coming back to the original them riff:
funk
rhythms
funk
rhythms
Lyle:
None of the riffs are hard to play, maybe the sliding ones are. You have to keep
consistent pressure down on the strings when you slide back and forth like
that.
Lyle: Let's look at the melody riffs. Now these
aren't funky to me, just sound good as a good contrast to what's going on. This
melody is made from the E natural minor scale. The only time you use a note out
of the scale is during the third measure of each 4 bars. I've circled these
notes which highlights them for you:
melody riffs
melody riffs
Lyle:
The solo is made from a combination of the E minor pentatonic and the natural
minor scales:
solo
solo
Lyle:
Now jam! You've just learned all the parts in the lessons sample at the
beginning of the lesson. Try mixing them up in any way you want to and play
along to the looping jam track.
skip: Lyle, what are those triplets called toward the
end?
Lyle: It's stacked 5ths going up in the key of D
major (3rd fret, second string), then changing back to G major for the final
half of the climb. I'm using the second string as my
guide.
skip: How
do you learn that stuff?
Lyle: Explore the neck and scales and try to look
at music in different angles.
Lyle: Here's a little something extra for some of
you to work on during these holidays. It's my own version of Silent
Night:
silent_night
Silent
Night
Lyle:
That's all for this lesson. Hope you are having fun jamming with me. See you at
the next lesson! If you would like extra study on this topic or a different
topic, I can make a custom lesson for you to download. I can even teach you how
to play your favorite songs! Email me at: lyle@theguitar.net and let
me know how I can help you. Thanks, Lyle
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