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What Do I Want to Learn to Get Funky?
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If this is where you're coming from, you might dig Primus.
... and if ever there was guitar-driven funk rock, there is Stevie Salas (one of my faves) who played with George Clinton and RHCP for a bit:
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I'm teaching 25 Vietnamese kids the development music genres and ways to describe them tonight. Looking at the thread whilst I lesson plan may lead to example pieces leaning towards funk and soul and getting stuck around a period they think is ancient. I would much rather do a lesson just on funk and spread the good word.
Do it - I took plenty of courses where the title was something like "European History" but the course focused on a narrow area that was of interest to the prof.
And for the kids, you never know what will stick and you may put a few on the right track.
I was into classic rock and grunge when I first started taking lessons, but my teacher made me learn all of these Motown basslines, kept going on about Jamerson. (this was 1995)
Learning that music that was outside my comfort zone was invaluable for developing my style of playing and appreciation of music in general.
It was a good lesson, but they didn't respond well to older funkier stuff. Even Amy Whitehouse fell flat where Adele wouldn't. Wasn't helped by the sound options in the room. Pharell and Mars may help me out.
I was thinking about how I would do this and my conclusion was to reverse engineer hip hop watch this video:
If you notice a lot of the songs are based on old school FUnk samples. So take the tune "Men in Black" by Will Smith then "Forget me Nots" by Patrice Rushen. They may not notice the former but they will the latter. Or the tune "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy then play them "Funky Drummer" by James Brown etc. you get the picture.
C/S,
Rev J
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Res ponce to hip hop wasn't positive, they don't really relate to anything outside sickly sweet pop. Rap is simply incomprehensible to their ears. Most of the class is 12, so anything older than 6 years old, may as well be 60 years old.
Simply past vs future past, with 'I will survive' with versions from cake and the Cockatoo from Rio 2 may help me get some disco in. We looked at music structure the previous week, with examples such as 'I want you back' which they responded well too. They've heard of Michael Jackson, but not the Beatles.
Simply past vs future past, with 'I will survive' with versions from cake and the Cockatoo from Rio 2 may help me get some disco in. We looked at music structure the previous week, with examples such as 'I want you back' which they responded well too. They've heard of Michael Jackson, but not the Beatles.
Saw them in about 1991 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. Was outside my music taste, but went with a metalhead friend. So glad I did, such a great gig.
How about Bruno Mars and mark Ronson. Those guys are definitely keeping the flame of funk alive.
When I was thinking about it I was working in the Tenderloin in SF. It really seems entrenched in that culture. Then again it isn't Vietnam.
C/S,
Rev J
Yeah, Pharell and Mars can help. Pharell can lead into daft punk, but I think they maybe too disco still. At least Happy was in Despicable Me, which they grew up to.
Good times was
GoodTimes was the third bassline l learnt, and would also tie in early hip hop should I focus on hip hop culture. Street art and beat boxing appeals to them, going from previous experience
"You Should Be Dancing" by the Bee Gees was in that too. Interesting side note I just read that Steven Stills of Crosby, Stills and Nash played percussion on that.
C/S,
Rev J
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Rev J
Do it. Use what they know already to broaden their horizons. "Good Times" is almost the same as "Rappers Delight".
C/S,
Rev J
Now I've set out the ground work, with structure, instruments, history and genres, I can just introduce ideas as part of other lessons.
