Herrlster
01-19-2007, 01:34 PM
Does anybody have any good sites or videos that can help me learn funk? Anybody have an tips?
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This is a search-engine-friendly text mirror of the TalkBass Forums Herrlster 01-19-2007, 01:34 PM Does anybody have any good sites or videos that can help me learn funk? Anybody have an tips? markjazzbassist 01-19-2007, 02:26 PM buy a bunch of funk albums and listen and try to learn the basslines. do this enough and you'll start to get the funk. Try these artists James Brown Earth Wind and Fire Average White Band Parliament The Ohio Players Chic The Isley Brothers The Meters Pleasure Tower Of Power Bayou_Brawler 01-19-2007, 03:14 PM it's hard to "learn" you need to be able to feel it first...i would buy a bunch of james brown albums...listen to them for 5 months...then spend 5 months trying to dance to them...then learn to play along with those albums... i'm kinda kidding...but kinda not.... Herrlster 01-19-2007, 03:37 PM Would the song, Shaky Ground be considered funk? need4mospd 01-19-2007, 04:29 PM Would the song, Shaky Ground be considered funk? Without a doubt. thewanderer24 01-19-2007, 05:19 PM Would the song, Shaky Ground be considered funk? Depends on which version of the song... Funk is a feel and an attitude about your playing. Feel isn't something you are gonna learn from a book or a website. The only way to learn funk is to immerse yourself in listening and playing it. Eventually it becomes a part of you. James Brown is a good place to start. Straightforward songs without much in the way of changes, but oozing in the funk. steveb98 01-20-2007, 02:16 PM Does anybody have any good sites or videos that can help me learn funk? Anybody have an tips? What you need to learn to play funk no video or book will teach you. You have to sit and listen and listen and internalize the rhythms. Sing the bass lines, clap the rhythms, listen close to where the notes are in relation to the beat, behind the beat, on top of the beat, on the beat. Get it in your gut, that is where it has to come from when you play. Then learn to play some Funk bass lines. Go back to the roots and learn some Duck Dunn and listen for how he swings some notes and straightens out other even within one line. Listen Jerry Jemmott and Tom Cogbill on early Aretha records. Once you have a few of those down with the feel. Then move on to newer stuff. Check out some Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers. Usually simple lines that groove hard. Funk is all about feel not notes. Then before you play eats some KFC. The chicken grease will make your fingers slip off the strings just enough to help you lay back behind the beat. Then you be Fonky :hiding: Commreman 01-20-2007, 03:40 PM Then before you play eats some KFC. The chicken grease will make your fingers slip off the strings just enough to help you lay back behind the beat. Then you be Fonky TRU DAT!!! TheButler 01-20-2007, 03:50 PM '*HAS*' to be chicken grease nothing else works ! ! ;) Jumbotron 01-20-2007, 03:55 PM Yeah, you can't really learn funk. You can only BE funk. Paulb7664 01-20-2007, 06:27 PM '*HAS*' to be chicken grease nothing else works ! ! ;) B/S I just put some bees wax on my Warwick and Funking hell, I'm slipping all over the place! :D A good one to learn is "Funk #49" by The James Gang. This song is all about Funky BASS. I've worked on this for about a week now, and will be doing it with my band for the first time on Wednesday. Bet you I funk it up!! LOL Eat it, Sleep it, Sh!t it. Then Funk it. Paul TheButler 01-20-2007, 06:38 PM B/S I just put some bees wax on my Warwick and Funking hell, I'm slipping all over the place! :D Sense the sarcastic tone my friend :D markjazzbassist 01-20-2007, 06:50 PM Then before you play eats some KFC. The chicken grease will make your fingers slip off the strings just enough to help you lay back behind the beat. Then you be Fonky Fonky fo sho. Chicken Grease is where its at. Paulb7664 01-20-2007, 07:00 PM Fonky fo sho. Chicken Grease is where its at. Only if you eat it with your left hand!!! ;) Paul deaf pea 01-20-2007, 08:21 PM buy a bunch of funk albums and listen . . . James Brown, The Ohio Players, The Isley Brothers, The Meters Also: The Gap Band, The O-Jays, Curtis Mayfield LISTEN!!! What you need to learn to play funk no video or book will teach you. You have to . . . listen and listen and internalize the rhythms. Sing the bass lines, clap the rhythms, listen close to where the notes are in relation to the beat . . . Get it in your gut, that is where it has to come from when you play . . . Funk is all about feel, not notes FEEL HOW THE BASS NOTES INTERACT/FIT IN WITH THE DRUM BEATS. A lot of the time the drums will play the "1" and "3" right on time, like a metronome, but the "2" and "4" will be slightly late (in relation to the metronome). And the bass will (almost) ALWAYS be a little late, so that you hear the kick drum attack BEFORE you hear what note the bass is playing. steveb98 also said something about simplicity . . . that's the s***! A simple one or two note repetitive riff, "laid back" . . . now THAT'S funky! |