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Jam Sessions - Funk Style
- Lesson 8
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 8
Jam Sessions -
Funk Style - Lesson 8
Lyle: You're going to be working in 4 different
keys overall in this jam. First, we'll explore each key one at a time. Here's
the first jam which is in Gm:
Jam Track in Gm
Lyle:
It's based off two chords, Gm and C9. Here's how the funk style rhythm is played
for it:
rhythm
riff for Gm
rhythm riff in
Gm
Lyle:
These two chords are the ii - V chords in the key of F major. This means you can
use any mode in the key of F while you improvise/jam to this groove. Here's an
example of a few riffs I came up with over this jam in
Gm:
solo
solo
Lyle:
You can see I stuck to the G minor theme in this solo. I used G Dorian, the
minor pentatonic, and the Gm7 arpeggio mostly. I also used the C major
arpeggio, which is the V in the key of F. I hope you can pull ideas from it,
even if playing/copying some of the riffs is hard.
Lyle: Let's try a new key, Bbm. You'll do the
same riff, same chords, same groove up 3 frets:
Jam Track
in Bbm
rhythm riff for
Bbm
Lyle:
The Bbm and Eb9 chords are the ii - V in the key of Ab major. This means you can
play any mode in the key of Ab against this jam. Here's a little
example:
Bb Dorian
example
Lyle:
Be sure to "listen and watch" the TAB file so you get a better idea in your head
how these scales work against the jam.
Lyle: Let's move the whole jam up 3 more frets to
C#m:
Jam Track in
C#m
Lyle:
Now you're playing the C#m to F#9, which are the ii - V in the key of
B!
rhythm riff for
C#m
Lyle:
You can use any mode from the key of B major against this C#m jam. Here's a
little example:
C#
minor pentatonic example
Lyle:
Notice when you look at the virtual guitar neck playback the TAB file, you'll
see all the notes in the key of B all over the neck, then you'll see the scale
riffs being played.
Lyle: Let's change keys one more time! Go up 3
more frets and play the same riff. You'll be playing Em to
A9:
Jam Track in
Em
rhythm riff for
Em
Lyle:
These are the ii - V chords in D major, so you can play any mode in the key of D
against these two chords.
Lyle: Here's a little example how the E Dorian, D
major, and the relative minor of D major all work well against this jam:
E Dorian
example
Lyle:
Let's put all 4 keys in one big jam track. You'll play each key for a total of 8
measures, then switch to the next key. Here's your chord
chart:
chord
chart
Lyle: This should look familiar, you just learned
all four of these keys in that order.
Lyle: Here's a jam track for the full
jam:
Jam Track in
Gm-Bbm-C#m-Em
Lyle:
The best advice I can give you as you practice improvising over all four keys,
is to keep it simple and bluesy, use the minor pentatonic and play your favorite
blues riffs during each key. Just remember to move to the new
key!
Lyle: Hope you all had fun jamming with me! See
you at the next lesson. If you would like to get custom private lessons with me
that you can download to your computer, email me at Lyle@theguitar.net and let me know how I
can help you. Thanks, Lyle
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