love funk? NEW FUNK SONG! INSIDE!

bassAddict05 · #1 01-23-2008, 06:53 PM

What Up Everyone,

New Track out right now, called
'relax it's funk ( that you're talking to)'

my true love funk , I love making funk... anyways

I missed making those good ol' funk tracks so I put lots of effort into this funkage of a song. Anyways let me know what you all think ,

http://www.myspace.com/citizenpolak

morf · #2 01-23-2008, 07:11 PM

Sorry, but since you asked, I'm not hearing funk in that song... Maybe its just me, but that isn't funky to my ears. Decent groove though.

bassAddict05 · #3 01-23-2008, 08:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by morf

Sorry, but since you asked, I'm not hearing funk in that song... Maybe its just me, but that isn't funky to my ears. Decent groove though.

ouch.

i have to disagree with you... obviously haha.

re listen...

maybe its not FULLY FUNKY, but its a mix

colorblindbass · #4 01-23-2008, 08:16 PM

i like it, but for some reason your title makes me want to scream,

"Do you shred? Maybe you didn’t hear me the first time. I said, DO YOU SHRED?"
"Non ****ing negotiable."

kevbassman · #5 01-23-2008, 08:24 PM

Sorry.......I don't want to sound negative.....but I also do not hear the funk. Funk is more than having a good riff....it's...well...

Funk is feeling........

I don't feel it on your songs.

Check out a old 90's band called DAG, especially their first CD, songs like Lovely Jane, etc. Check out George Clinton / Parliament.
Go in the rock . funk vein and by all means check out the Dan Reed Network.

Best of luck!

morf · #6 01-23-2008, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by bassAddict05

ouch.

i have to disagree with you... obviously haha.

re listen...

maybe its not FULLY FUNKY, but its a mix

I listened well

I also listen to quite a lot of funk these days. Check out The Meters. It's a very good place to start with funk.

GradyBass · #7 01-23-2008, 08:32 PM

Wah pedals a funk song makes does not.

Groovy, def.

bkbirge · #8 01-23-2008, 09:33 PM

No funk there but I think you've got some flavors and can get there eventually. Definite potential, don't give up! Good band/project name too.

bassAddict05 · #9 01-23-2008, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by morf

I listened well

I also listen to quite a lot of funk these days. Check out The Meters. It's a very good place to start with funk.

didnt you notice the picture on the side of the song? its the meters. ive been a fan for a while. anyas i apprecite all the feedback. I gues my style has been combined withs ome funk, so it aint too bad

CapnSev · #10 01-25-2008, 12:47 PM

It's not bad.

I prefer my funk uber-tight and extra greasy though.

jerry · #11 01-25-2008, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by kevbassman

Check out a old 90's band called DAG, especially their first CD, songs like Lovely Jane, etc.

/* highjack....
I love DAG, when their albums came out it was so different from most of the other music being released back then. Great groove! Nice to see some love for them here!

/* sorry for the thread highjack....

Marcury · #12 01-25-2008, 06:50 PM

Sorry not funk at all.

pyrohr · #13 01-27-2008, 12:12 PM

*pyrohr calls the funk police!*

Someone's nose is growing!

gottawalk · #14 01-27-2008, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by morf

I listened well

I also listen to quite a lot of funk these days. Check out The Meters. It's a very good place to start with funk.

Now THIS is one of the reasons why I come here. I hadn't heard of The Meters, so I caught some soundbites on iTunes and I think I'll get one of their albums. Thanks, morf, for the tip! Fire On the Bayou is definite funk. Great tune!

j.a.e.r.i.p · #15 01-27-2008, 12:23 PM

ya no offense, not hearing any funk

pyrohr · #16 01-27-2008, 12:24 PM

*Funk police on the way!*

morf · #17 01-27-2008, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by gottawalk

Now THIS is one of the reasons why I come here. I hadn't heard of The Meters, so I caught some soundbites on iTunes and I think I'll get one of their albums. Thanks, morf, for the tip! Fire On the Bayou is definite funk. Great tune!

My pleasure

DWBass · #18 01-27-2008, 06:20 PM

Is it Funk? No!

While it does have it's funky moments, it switches up and is sorta all over the place. I'd say it's more Indie/Experiemental/Avant Garde than Funk.

BuffaloBass · #19 01-29-2008, 04:18 AM

If I listen to the bass line, it doesnt play that funky, but its close. Why? Its not a continuous groove, and its a very short riff, one bar only. I trhink if you had two bars of riff there, it might sound more like it.

Funk isnt that hard to define, and it's not just a feel. Typically the bass runs a 2-4 bar groove all tune long, with breakdowns, of course. You often have an interplay, where, say the bass rests for 1/2 bar, and the hi hat or keys or voices, count for half a bar. Lots of "breathing" in funk.

The second time the bass "riffs", its completley out of funk mode and you're running root-5-8, as in a straight up rock ditty. Sweet arse bass line , and it tickles my funkabilities, but its not locked in funk mode. Its doesnt breathe, if you get my drift. Now, at around 2:15 the bass starts to breathe and the keys fill the breathe, do you hear that!? Thats the funk man. Same riff as early, but there is difference. And also, when you ring the root, fifth, octave, give it some funk by resting an 1/8 somewhre in that run.

BUUUUUUUTTTT>>>>>> Nice work! To FUNK IT, I would focus on multi-bar riffs. Heavy breathing ( or catching a breath).Again, I count one bar in that tune , a four count. Tack on a second four count riff to finish the phrasing and you'll see it has a bit different feel to it. Get the bass to take some deep breaths, let the strings and keys fill the void.

I dig the tune. It has a good , deep, feel to it. But Da Funk does have some basis characteristics you'll have to imbed in the tune to really make it shout FUNK! SO, for now, it's, "Relax, It Wants to Funk ". Almost smells like it. Make it wreak!

Its important for us aspirining funkateers, and funkfathers alike, to not offer opinions like " its not funk!", without offering SOME analysis of why. More detailed the better. We're not going to breed funkateers and foster understadning of Da FUnk! without being ALWAYS constructive in our critisizms, swallowing our own faces, and letting Mutha Funk guide us from the right place, feel, and therefore, response. Yes!?

Its just like fixing the groove talking with your hands and inner soul, but this is with our voices. Dig?

Peace. Out.