Chords for Funk Guitar - How to Play "Cut the Cake" - Five Towns College

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Hi, and thanks for being with us for yet another lesson from learnintude.com
I really appreciate all the messages I get from the guitar players out there and one thing they have been saying is that we do
Not yet have a funk lesson up on the site
So I wanted to take care of that as soon as possible, and I've come up with a great example
It's a song by the average white band
You may find some easier examples up on the net in different lessons about how to play a nine chord or something like that
But this one is pretty involved because I'll show you some of the strumming and some other techniques
So I think you'll have a lot of fun with it.
So let's get started
So one example that guitar players sometimes mention is the introduction to a song called cut the cake by the average white band
And I feel it's an excellent example to show a few different funk guitar techniques that are really essential.
Here's how it goes
_ Okay, _ [D] _ _
_ [G#] _ [F] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [F] _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ so why don't we slow this down the first thing you need to [F] play
[F#] As you can see I'm playing kind of a three note [C] chord right there it's a d7
It's 14 of high e 13 of B and [F] 14 of the G string and it's approached by [F#] sliding it from [B] a fret beneath it
[F#] _ _ [G] Okay, the second thing being struck is your ring finger will be barring the 12th fret of the D and the G and the B
_ _ Yeah, the [B] next the [F] next move is to bar the 10th fret
You're kind of now using the [F#] D minor pentatonic scale, even though the chord is d7
_ [F] the next thing is your first fingers barring across the 10th fret of D G and B and
The interesting thing here is as you strike it your middle finger [F#] will hammer on to the 11th fret
[F] So here's what we have so far
[G] _ _ [F] _ [F#] _ _ All right.
The next move is to go to a d9 chord and that's played [Am] on the fifth fret
[D] _ _ Second finger on five of a we have [B] four D
And we have your [Am] ring finger playing the fifth fret of G B and high E
[D] _
_ so the first thing struck is the a string [F#] _ and
Then it's a down up strum [D] after [F#] that
So here's what we have so far
_ [G] _ [F] _ _
[D] _ [F#] _ _ Okay.
Now the second time through the song
[G] _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _
Chord changes this chord is actually a d9 sus chord, even though I'm really not playing a D in the bass
But as you'll see my pinky is hitting a high D.
So that's the important thing.
Sometimes people like to take this chord [Am] and
_ [C] _ _ Resolve the sus note to the down to the third.
It's going to have the 10th fret of the [Em] D 9 of G
8 of the B [C] and your pinky plays the 10th fret of high E _
_ _ _ _ _ Okay
so now here's the whole example about half speed [B] [G] and
_ [D] _
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[G] _ _ _ Another very important thing some of you may be wondering about the right hand strumming
So a very important thing [N] for me to communicate to you is to keep the rhythm
Constant even on notes that you're not striking what I mean by that is you should keep that this constant motion
Looking like this so we'll have
[G] _ [F] _ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _
[B] _ [G] _ [Fm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
Right, so you saw how that kept it really will [N] keep your timing very precise
It's something pretty tough to work on but all gradually over time.
You'll definitely get the feel of it
Well, that's about it for this lesson.
And as always I appreciate your suggestions
So if you have any ideas for some new topics that we haven't covered yet or a new song feel free
Contact me anytime and until next time.
Take care _
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