Advanced Funk licks.

[Cosey]

For those of you who saw my introduction thread, you noticed im a bass player who now plays guitar also.

Well one thing I did and still do alot of is advanced funk bass lines(sometimes called Pizzicato Funk). Things like Jaco, Rocco Prestia, and James Jamerson(Standing in the shadows of Motown is the hardest 16 note reading out there for bass guitar) would play.

Well I already know how to play basic funk guitar since I have written funk songs for people and know the chords and how they should be played.

So my question is, what should I be doing to take my funk playing to the next level on guitar as I did on bass?

[FireJin3]

Take every single skill in funk you can possibly pull off and exaggerate it til insanity. Basically, take Jimy Hendrix and look what that guy pulled off. That's what I'm talking about.

[Cosey]

Originally posted by FireJin3
Take every single skill in funk you can possibly pull off and exaggerate it til insanity. Basically, take Jimy Hendrix and look what that guy pulled off. That's what I'm talking about.

Er no thanks I'd rather play with a mixture of complexity and taste, funk is about feel not showing off every trick you know. I dont think Jimi Hendrix makes a good template for funk guitar either, eventhough I consider Hendrix's playing very rhythmically strong(especially his playing on 1968's Electric Ladyland), I wouldnt classify him as a Funk player. The intro to "We Gotta Live Together" is the funkiest playing I've ever heard him do and that entire intro is pretty much a quote from Sly and The Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song".

[Jools]

Well I heard Hendrix is deemed as one of the first funky guitarists... At list in a rock perspective. check out "crosstown traffic".

sure he's not a good template since the other instruments are a lot less funky than his playing but still worthy of your attention i guess.

[FireJin3]

I wasn't really talking about the tricks, I mean he's musical exaggeration, like how he perfected his music til insanity. Yeah, he's not a good funk representation but he's still worth your attention as to what you could do.

[Cosey]

Originally posted by Jools
Well I heard Hendrix is deemed as one of the first funky guitarists... At list in a rock perspective. check out "crosstown traffic".

sure he's not a good template since the other instruments are a lot less funky than his playing but still worthy of your attention i guess.

Well yea he actually played guitar on one of the first funk songs, 1966's Testify(Parts 1 and 2) by The Isley Bothers, and toured the Chitlin Circuit. So he certainky has a funky background, but I've always considered him a rock player with playing that was very rhythmically strong, more so than any other guitarist of the era. Not neccesarily funk though.

Anyway, I have all his studio albums and some live ones to, so maybe I will pay a bit more attention to em.

[Cosey]

Originally posted by FireJin3
I wasn't really talking about the tricks, I mean he's musical exaggeration, like how he perfected his music til insanity. Yeah, he's not a good funk representation but he's still worth your attention as to what you could do.

Ah ok misunderstood, I plan to get as good as I can also, so no probs there :)

[wild_axeman]

Well if you know the chords and all that then I'd say to play some bottom end riffs too kind of like on bass.

And as far as exaggerating and taking it "out there" check out Mattias Eklundh at http://freakguitar.com/

Just as an example of exaggerating things ala Hendrix or wah-tever!