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05-17-2005, 09:50 PM
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What scales are funky sorts of stuff usually played in? Major sounds almost too happy and Minor sounds too sad. In the notes I think sound good with funk, some of the notes are in a major scale and some are in a minor. Is there one main scale funk is played in or is it just alterations of other scales? |
05-17-2005, 09:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | | Hmm?
Pentatonic scale?
Blues scale?
Look those up in a simple dictionary. I'll give you an example of each.
Pentatonic scale - C Eb F G Bb C
Blues scale - C Eb F F# G Bb [C] |
05-18-2005, 05:31 AM
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On this topic, does anyone know a website which has a list of scales on it so i can teach myself please?
I can't afford lessons yet but will hopefully in the near future, not many though so the more i can learn before i can go the more techniques and more advanced stuff i can learn during my lessons.
thanx very much,
Ryan |
05-18-2005, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Eau Claire, Wisconsin | | Check out www.guitar.com they have scale and chord generators that have helped me learn on my own a bunch.
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05-18-2005, 11:05 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | Hell of a lot of funk and disco stuff is based on Dorian mode (Root, 2nd, minor 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, minor 7th, Octave). So in D this would just be DEFGABCD. Classic example starting on bottom E (so EF#GABC#DE) is "Good Times" by Chic (as also used for "Rapper's Delight").
When playing in major keys the 2nd/9th or minor 3rd/10th will often be used as a passing note on to the major 3rd/10th. Also the 6th tends to be used to lead on to the (minor) 7th rather than the other way round.
Try it, have fun.
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05-18-2005, 11:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ames, IA | | | To Lorenzini - Pentatonic scales are THA BOMB!!! learm 'em, use 'em, then learn some more. Remember, it's not only the notes that make something funky, it's the time too!
To ChilipepperFlea - The "Instruction" thread here is good and also check out the Harmony Central site!! Wow, tons of good instructions there!!
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05-20-2005, 06:22 AM
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That has alot of scales on, i am learnign from it at the minute |
05-20-2005, 06:51 PM
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05-21-2005, 12:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Evil Town | | | I've found that its not the scale thats funky, it the notes that you pick out from it. Try copping licks that you hear that you think are funky, find out what they are doing. However, Dorian and Pentatonic scales are a good place to start. Rythym is also an essential ingedient to the funky stew.
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05-21-2005, 12:24 PM
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05-21-2005, 01:49 PM
| | | | A lot of Funk also relies on chromatic tones, often times between the 4th and 5th degrees. Also, a lot of Funk lines sometimes use a minor and major third in succession.
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05-22-2005, 06:46 PM
| | | | My take on things is that what makes funk funky (in terms of harmony - rythm would take 10 other threads) is the same thing that makes blues or a lot of jazz. Most funk tunes start with a blues-type progression or just one chord, usually dominant. What makes it really funky is when you throw in notes from a blues scale (flat 3 or flat 5), the flat 7 . . .
Funk bass usually emphasizes the first, sixth, and seventh scale degr |
05-22-2005, 07:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Boston | | | A passing flatted 7th sounds very funky.. 3rds sound very funky(ala Jaco) | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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