Chords for 6 Funk Rhythm Guitar Exercises with Flavio Silva

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_ _ [Gm] _ _ Hi, I'm Flavio Silva.
Today I'm here to talk to you about some rhythm [Db] and some funk.
I'm going to give you some tips to funk up your playing.
First, I'm going to cover some general exercise, funk related, and then I'm going to show you
a line that you can apply over a bunch of different progressions.
The main thing with the funk is the 16th notes.
Normally they're continuous and have different accents here and there.
The first thing we're going to do is to work on our 16th notes [Eb] non-stop.
I have my drum track and _ _ then I'm going to take my B flat on the third string and then
I'm just going to play [Bb] 16th notes continuously.
So one, two, three, four. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ That's a simple thing, but that's the base of the whole funk concept.
Right now what we're going to do, I'm going to palm mute with my right hand.
The way you're going to approach palm muting is I'm going to have this part of my hand
touching the strings.
My hand is going to come a little forward and [Eb] then I'll be able to have [Bb] this sound. _
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_ _ _ One, two, three, four.
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[E] The second thing we're going to do here is to apply the same concept, but instead of
having a single note, I'm going to have one chord.
In this case, I'm going to choose, let's say, D minor [Dm] 9 _ [D] _ _
is my chord.
_ _ I'm going to play continuous 16th notes, no palm muting. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ If you hear what I just played, it sounds weird because that's not how this style of
music should sound.
That's why right now we're going to use the palm muting and then it's going to sound way
better and more related to this style.
One, two, three, four. _
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The whole idea is to combine those two things. _ _
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Now what I'm going to do, with [C] all those four 16th notes of each group, I'm going to choose
like one of them to accentuate.
Right now I'm going to accentuate the first one of each group of four.
One, two, three, four.
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_ [Eb] Right now I'm going to accentuate the second 16th note.
One, two, three, [Bb] four. _ _ _
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_ Now the third one. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Now the fourth.
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_ _ So I have all these four possibilities.
The way to make this whole thing alive and really groovy is to make combinations of those.
One, two, three, four.
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ Now we need to take some of those 16th notes out.
We're going to work on a small motif that can be used in very _ different situations.
So I'm playing F, [D] G, and B flat.
Just going to make a small line with those three notes.
One, two, three, four.
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Now with the palm muting.
One, two, three, four.
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A little faster now.
One, two, three, four.
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_ _ _ After learning that first line, I'm going to show you some ways where you can keep developing
the same type of concept.
One, two, three, four.
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[C] _ _ [G] _ _ If you like what you just heard and what I just showed you in this video, please find
me on Lesson Face.
Thanks so much.
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