Chords for Cory Wong of Vulfpeck on His Funky Right Hand Picking Technique | Reverb Interview

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Eb

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Cory Wong of Vulfpeck on His Funky Right Hand Picking Technique | Reverb Interview chords
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[F] [C]
[G] Hey Reverb.com, I'm Corey Wong.
Thanks for joining us.
[Bb] [F]
[Bm] [B] [F]
[Bb] [G]
Well I play [Am] guitar [D] with Wolfpack.
I am the rhythm guitar player.
[Em] And also one of the fun things with that band and one of the fun things that I do as part
of my sound is kind of bringing rhythm guitar to the front [D] in certain aspects rather than
just like [E]
when somebody thinks of lead guitar they think of this sort of stuff.
But a lot of just the rhythmic things are what kind of gets brought to the front with
what I'm playing.
So it's not necessarily lead guitar, lead guitar, but a lot of the way that my guitar
stuff comes to the forefront is still within the rhythm guitar context.
[Eb]
[B] [Dm] [Eb]
[B] [Eb] [Dm] [Eb]
[E] I mean I think a lot of my right hand stuff, a lot of it, it's just really loose in the
wrist and it comes from a lot of years of playing acoustic guitar and kind of bringing
together some of just the traditional electric guitar rhythm with acoustic guitar.
I don't know, Nile Rodgers meets Dave Matthews meets Dave Williams or something.
There's a lot of different right hand techniques that I'll use.
Like for instance, for the accurate stuff if [G] I'm going, [Bb]
[E]
[G] I'm thinking [E] more just one string
at a time.
But sometimes I'll open [G] that up the same part,
[Gm] [Bb]
[G] [B] which on its own sounds sloppier there, but
in the context, adding some of the extra string percussive sound maybe adds like a shaker
sound along with the guitar part.
And [Eb] then even further, [B]
[F] [Eb]
[F] even [Eb] when I'm, [A] I'm not just thinking really accurate on that
string, I'm thinking [Eb] kind of hitting all these bottom four strings, but really only letting
this one note.
[A]
[D] [Em]
[Bm]
[Em]
[Db] [Em] I've developed this certain technique where basically once I start, [Bb]
[C] what I do is I take
the bones in my hand and I turn it into cartilage and I just turn it into straight cartilage
and let it go loose.
[Eb]
[Gb] [Gm] And then [Bbm] if you let it go really loose, [Gb] you can [Gm] go fast.
[F]
[C] [Bb] So just really loosen the [A] wrist [E] and constantly [Cm] up, down, up, [Bb] down, up, down, [Em] up, even whether
I'm playing or accenting a note or not, just thinking [Bb] about when [G] [F]
I was in high school and
college, I played in drum line where it's like shifting accents on the down, on the
E, the and, the uh, switching off accents.
So I have a lot of practice, like mindfulness practice of where to place accents.
But as far as doing it on guitar, it was just thinking more musical and musical phrases.
I played a lot of disco music.
I played a lot of just R&B and funk music with groups.
One way that I could describe it is like things coming in and out.
So terracing, something [E] coming in, stair stepping, parts coming in, parts leaving, whether it
be a shaker part coming in or just the keyboard coming in or something like that.
So my own parts, I will think about them as far as like if I'm muting something or if
I'm getting [Em] more open and then also just the number of notes and where I'm playing it on the neck.
I normally just try to think in a number of phrases how dynamically it just pokes out
through the mix, that sort of thing.
So
[G] [E]
[G] [A] [E]
range has to do with dynamics, how some, how a part pokes out.
But single note [D] [B] versus
[E] That sort of stuff.
That's kind of how I build my rhythm parts, [G]
stair stepping from one section [Db] to the next.
[Bm]
[Em]
[Db]
[G]
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [G] Hey Reverb.com, I'm Corey Wong.
Thanks for joining us.
_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ [B] _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ Well I play [Am] guitar [D] with Wolfpack.
I am the rhythm guitar player.
[Em] And also one of the fun things with that band and one of the fun things that I do as part
of my sound is kind of bringing rhythm guitar to the front [D] in certain aspects rather than
just like [E]
when somebody thinks of lead guitar they think of _ this sort of stuff.
But a lot of just the rhythmic _ things are what kind of gets brought to the front with
what I'm playing.
So it's not necessarily lead guitar, lead guitar, but a lot of the way that my guitar
stuff comes to the forefront is still within the rhythm guitar context.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [B] _ _ [Eb] _ [Dm] _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ [E] I mean I think a lot of my right hand stuff, _ a lot of it, it's just really loose in the
wrist and it comes from a lot of years of playing acoustic guitar and kind of bringing
together some of just the traditional electric guitar rhythm with acoustic guitar.
I don't know, Nile Rodgers meets Dave Matthews meets Dave Williams or something.
There's a lot of different right hand techniques that I'll use.
Like for instance, for the accurate stuff if [G] I'm going, [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ I'm thinking [E] more just one string
at a time.
But sometimes I'll open [G] that up the same part, _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [G] _ _ [B] _ _ _ which on its own sounds sloppier there, but
in the context, _ adding some of the extra string percussive sound maybe adds like a shaker
sound along with the guitar part.
And [Eb] then even further, _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ even [Eb] when I'm, _ _ [A] _ I'm not just thinking really accurate on that
string, I'm thinking _ [Eb] kind of hitting all these bottom four strings, but really only letting
this one note. _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [Db] [Em] I've developed this certain technique where basically once I start, [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] what I do is I take
the bones in my hand and I turn it into cartilage and I just turn it into straight cartilage
and let it go loose.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ [Gm] _ And then [Bbm] if you let it go really loose, [Gb] you can [Gm] go fast. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ [Bb] So just really loosen the [A] wrist [E] and constantly [Cm] up, down, up, [Bb] down, up, down, [Em] up, even whether
I'm playing or accenting a note or not, just thinking [Bb] about when _ [G] _ _ _ [F] _
_ I was in high school and
college, I played in drum line where it's like shifting accents on the down, on the
E, the and, the uh, switching off accents.
So I have a lot of practice, like mindfulness practice of where to place accents.
But as far as doing it on guitar, it was just thinking more musical and musical phrases.
_ I played a lot of disco music.
I played a lot of just R&B and funk music with groups.
One way that I could describe it is like things coming in and out.
So terracing, something [E] coming in, stair stepping, parts coming in, parts leaving, whether it
be a shaker part coming in or just the keyboard coming in or something like that.
So my own parts, I will think about them as far as like if I'm muting something or if
I'm getting [Em] more open and then also just the number of notes and where I'm playing it on the neck.
I normally just try to think in a number of phrases how dynamically it just pokes out
through the mix, that sort of thing.
So _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ [A] _ [E] _ _
range has to do with dynamics, how some, how a part pokes out. _
But single note _ [D] _ [B] _ versus_
[E] That _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
sort of stuff.
That's kind of how I build my rhythm parts, [G]
stair stepping from one section [Db] to the next. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _

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