A Beginner's Guide To Funk Guitar

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Funk guitar is one style of playing that I think is useful for just about every guitar player out there. The techniques and ideas behind the funk guitar style will help you find the pocket and step up your rhythm chops, plus its super fun to play.
Huge thanks to ‪@TomoFujitaMusic‬ for helping me teach this guitar lesson today.
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@TomoFujitaMusic 3 года назад

Rhett, Great funk lesson! Thanks again for having me!

@RhettShull 3 года назад

You’re the man Tomo!

@nicfry3061 3 года назад

Tomo=Legend!

@JustSomeGuy 3 года назад

I love Tomo Fujita. He's such a great teacher. I also love when he teaches something simple and then proceeds to do 12 chord changes in a quarter of a second.

@StockportJambo 3 года назад

Tomo is an amazing dude. I would so buy his autobiography.

@TheFir196 3 года назад

Yep. 1 lesson video from Tomo can keep you busy for days.

@normanperkel139 3 года назад

He has two great DVD’s that are definitely worth getting!

@jmabs5096 3 года назад

Everybody funk: Single coil, Strat Rhett:Gold top Les Paul.

@RhettShull 3 года назад

It’s the funkiest guitar I have.

@ryaneggleston4585 3 года назад

@@RhettShull To be fair, it's a Deluxe

@jmabs5096 3 года назад

@@RhettShull it's a beautiful guitar and envy it, just busting Rhetts chops, love you Rhett glad the injury is healing nicely!

@TrainwreckNC 3 года назад

A lot of funk guys played LP's SG's and es series

@tedonyszczak3029 3 года назад

Mini humbuckers rock! I have a 71 deluxe with minis and it is the most versatile ever.

@ItsMrMcFly 3 года назад

The most amazing part of Tomo's playing is his level of precision. You only hear the exact notes that he wants to hear. That level of accuracy and precision is always amazing to see.

@EthanTheMighty 3 года назад

corey wong taught me the shifting-the-accent practice technique and it slaps

@ThrillHouse666 5 месяцев назад

"Cory Wooooong!" Love that guy! One of the few guitarists that makes me happy just watching him play!

@mjohns908 3 года назад

If anyone is wondering, the knee slapping exercise that Tomorrow is doing early in the video is a foundational drumming concept called gridding, which is the fundamental way that drummers develop extremely accurate syncopation even when not filling the space with ghost notes. Maybe not necessarily a concept that's too common for pitched instruments.

@CatmanJimbo 3 года назад

Just saw a Cory Wong interview where he talks about playing drumline in high school, and I've seen him discuss that same warm up in a different video. I bet that's where he took it from!

@PragmaticDany 3 года назад

Yeah the dude is a living metronome

@charliemoody7168 3 года назад

I’ve been asked countless times, how do I “keep track” of left hand, right hand, feet…it more than just muscle memory, though that’s important: it involves what I call rhythmic memory, or ‘embodying’ the beat. You can see dancers doing it if you watch them - the beat and it’s ‘fragments’, or pulses, get distributed to the head, the shoulders, hips, hands and feet, and a dance comes out. Or a drum rhythm. Or a funk strumming patterns. It’s called ‘syncopation’: “the placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't ‘normally’ occur… the correlation of *at least* TWO sets of time intervals.

@nuthinbutlove 2 года назад

I'm a guitarist and I've practiced the same exercise almost the entire time I've been playing. I would recommend it for almost all musicians.

@rikoguitar Год назад

Tomorrow huh 🤣

@J.D.... 3 года назад

Stratocaster 4th position Righthand motor going FUNK

@JakeTerch 3 года назад

I like position 3 or even position 2 on a Tele for funk!

@abcrx32j 3 года назад

*Me being confused for a second* *Remembers how pickup switch positions are numbered*

@unitoftemp 3 года назад

Firmly flexed tape to that 4th position.

@ferramirez4570 3 года назад

Just to confirm 4th position is Middle and Neck or not?

@TokeGerdts 3 года назад

@@ferramirez4570 Yep!

@yoniyampolsky2597 3 года назад

Best style to emulate- Fruscantie's. Perfect blend of rock and funk. Great technique that creates a rougher, more modern punk sound

@jarryd2018 3 года назад

Was thinking exactly that watching this. I find myself trying to emulate him even when I'm not.

@DanialAbrar 3 года назад

Currently everything I play seems to emulate him lol

@RalphMercuroMusic 3 года назад

Love Nile!!! He really unlocked my funk playing with two techniques. Never play more than three strings at a time and the funkier you get the less the chords ring out to almost playing nothing or VERY muted...

@baimun 3 года назад

When I was showing someone some funk and reggae licks I explained the correlation of the right hand rhythm picking and when to choke notes with the right hand is like a drummer's high hat. They don't just leave it open and do rolls.... it's the striking pattern along with when to let it ring, when to ring and cut, or to be closed the entire thing.

@hyramjackson 2 года назад

That comparison is perfect, in fact I have done that without thinking of it

@bendayze 3 года назад

Rhetts clean tone is my solo tone

@Garythefireman66 3 года назад

Nile Rodgers is a legend. He worked with so many greats, including David Bowie. His riffs are iconic 🎸

@stevanvinter2835 3 года назад

My dear God the thing that he does at 15:29 made me stop the video and replay it several times. What a guy! :)

@guppybill 3 года назад

Tower of Power! That's where my favorite funk and soul comes from. East Bay Grease. Got ya' some right here!

@TheJuggernautv2 3 года назад

LOL, it always comes back to Tomo. The power behind the Throne!

@istvandejesus 3 года назад

Is great how good you are healing from your injury. God bless!!!

@CrazyUncleSam24 3 года назад

Definitely my favorite video based around an interview you made. You give plenty of room for the interview to breathe and the parts you give really expand on the ideas to explain it more. It also helps that Tomo is amazing.

@eadonayre 3 года назад

That strat sounded amazing

@TraneFrancks 3 года назад

Yeah, but what does Tomo Fujita know anyway? It's not like he's John Mayer's guitar teacher ... Oh, wait.

@DADA-ey2ir 3 года назад

This is why social media platforms are so great nowadays. You get to learn from great minds like Tomo when it used to be a privilege.

@RobHarrisGuitar 3 года назад

Great stuff Rhett. Love the Tomo stuff too.

@marcoscamillo6606 3 года назад

We need a collab video between you and Chris Buck too...

@RemyTrahant 3 года назад

Awesome, thank you Rhett, thank you Tomo! At GIT my instructor Pathik Desai who taught the funk guitar class turned me on to the late, great Ross Bolton who used to be the funk guitar guru at GIT, and Pathik based his entire funk beginner course around Ross' curriculum and I highly recommend to everyone to pick up Ross Bolton's Hal Leonard Funk Guitar book, it's a great workbook to get you on your way!

@andypomeroy7447 3 года назад

So cool to see this broke down to the elements. This was such a common style of playing in the mid to late 70's. We just played what we were hearing on the radio and records, not understanding what we were playing. Nice to hear the comments about over playing the rhythm and how to accent. Good content here, Rhett!

@sls554 2 года назад

Fantastic, Fantastic Funk history!!!!!!

@EasyHeat 3 года назад

My mom took me to see the Ramones live on my 7th birthday in 1983. Forever influenced my musical journey.

@PNWGuitar 3 года назад

Nile Roger's is one of my biggest influences so I was excited to hear your thoughts about funk. It's gotta swing its got to support the sing and in my Roger's opinion "If there's not many notes it's not funky"

@BryanSorensen Год назад

Where I live, we are lucky enough to have an original Detroit “funk brother” (Leroy Emmanuel) that fills the dance floor with nothing but a 335 (sometimes wah) and a Fender Twin (clean). You can actually hear his guitar on the opening sample/riff of Snoop Dogg’s “Who am I”. After hearing him play, you realize the power of great clean guitar playing. (You’ll get rid of your pedals and your on-the edge-of-breakup amps...)

@TheDankCat127 3 года назад

“You see, the funk is a living creature. It’s about the size of a medicine ball, but covered in teats.” -Old Gregg

@Jesse615 2 года назад

Lately I've really gotten into funk-style playing more. I play bass too, and a lot of the same practices, like muting and a focus on the right hand, carries through easily. One thing I realize that makes the great guitar and bass funk players so great isn't so much their ability to play, but their keen ability to listen. Listening to the other players, the vocal melody, rhythm, etc. is how they find that pocket and create space. I'll take Nile Rodger's tasty playing over the flashy stuff any day!

@TeeDOG6 3 года назад

When I was a did, I was a classic rock guy. Then as I got older, I started to appreciate blues, then funk. Funk is awesome.

@TheOdieD3 3 года назад

Thanks for this Rhett ! So fun!!! My favorite video so far

@stevegodard4697 3 года назад

Wow! Not even a funk aficionado, but was blown away by Tomo's skill. Very nice lesson, provides great practice material. Thanks so much!

@GUSCRAWF0RD 3 года назад

4;30 this guy is a train-ed rythm machine I couldn't change accents in a tapping pattern like that, I bet real drummers train that kind of thing... Impressive

@bryangarcia662 3 года назад

Glad to see your recovering so quickly man, great video! Already signed up for the Inner Circle, can't wait to see what comes next!

@jeromejackson2455 2 года назад

Right on brother

@larryhall2805 3 года назад

So Al is playing the perfect rhythm guitar part in Serpentine Fire: one almost doesn't hear it but if it's taken out, something's sorely missing.

@brianwilson3133 2 года назад

That's also how a lot of old country music guitarists played. Lift off the frets to mute the chords to create rhythm

@mattquinn8022 5 месяцев назад

Awesome mate, loved this!!

@michaelgray1642 3 года назад

man, you got it, funk, all about "the spaces".

@santrixhimself3679 3 года назад

Tomo Fujita might be the nicest person on all of youtube

@TheDeugsy 3 года назад

thanks to Tomo and you, such a refreshing listening !

@santiagohaller2414 3 года назад

Rhett!! Love your new studio

@AF-fb6yp 3 года назад

Playing less to create more space and not playing full chords etc! So simple but very easy to not realise. Great video

@ilyatishchenkov6501 3 года назад

When it comes to learning funk quitar I will always remember that VHS with Ross Bolton's guitar course my dad gave me when I was a kid. It literally rocked my world!

@didyma Год назад

Loved this video. Just what a former metalhead needs to get out of his comfort zone when realizing what he's been missing out 😊

@jakeward3209 3 года назад

Yesss!! I needed this

@nessmalone 3 года назад

Tomo RULES!!!!

@ChaseandMelia 3 года назад

Soooo cool!!! Can’t wait to go practice this!!! Love the accent exercise! Soooo tricky!

@titus2120 3 года назад

I hav always been impressed by you nce first ran accros you. But now.... FUNK!? Wow... And this is weird. I'm a 66 year old black guy who grew up on rock in Los Angeles. II'm a Rock guy. But FUNK!? Wow. I am so impessed. More please!!! Oh. And Ell done, sir!!

@rochellecarter7683 3 года назад

That was useful. My main take aways were use expensive chords, voice leading (good thing I learned my triads), and most importantly, you don't have to scratch every sixteenth note; just the important ones. Thanks :)

@b.rodclark7349 3 года назад

Right rhythm/left mute... so on point!

@deanbibb3680 3 года назад

Nice job, gentlemen

@ZacCostilla 3 года назад

Love the mini-humbuckers!!!

@mykhedelic6471 3 месяца назад

When you get the drummer and the bass player you really start learning how to subtract and get down to it. It's good to chunk it out and then start dropping more and more until you're down to barely anything-- BUT-- it's all still there. A line is made up of continuous points, our eyes fill it in, your ears can work the same way.

@michaeld.mahoney9106 3 года назад

Well done, great funk lesson. Thanks.

@theviper5952 3 года назад

Ooooooo, yay funky time

@jasonmccarthy3370 Год назад

Great video! I always love to see @TomoFujitaMusic . Fantastic player and musician. More please!

@espalier 3 года назад

Awesome. Thank you.

@Rebelconformist82 Год назад

Tomo is a Guru of guitar. I like the guy with the silver guitar technique . Nice sound

@jamaisvu2815 3 года назад

Thank you

@かわいい89 3 года назад

I’ve been watching Tomo for a minute now so great

@DavidLightWill 3 года назад

that was awesome---thanks for the post

@charliemoody7168 3 года назад

Terrific…*and* USEFUL. Thanks, Rhett, and Tomoe!

@vietnammg Год назад

Took me around 2 years to learn the basic of funk guitar. But just like Tomo said it's 90% in your ability to mute strings with left hand fingers and the strumming flexibility of the wrist your right hand. It takes time but it's very learnable. You will send picks flying a lot though.

@elizabethanderson2968 11 месяцев назад

You're lucky ... my folks had the great wall of vinyl in the 70s, and a few lodgers that included founding members of the Average White Band and Blockheads, so having that kinda grounding is SO valuable! Great lessons

@Poincianaa 2 года назад

this one helped me a lot

@Stu-Vino 3 года назад

Wow, really useful stuff, cheers, Rhett

@Mcsteveberry 3 года назад

very wise man, i love him

@davroshalfbeard8368 3 года назад

Anchoring the pinky genius just tried it funk is the toughest style for me some times you get the groove sometimes you don't lol. thanks for all the very interesting content . digging that gold top at the start the only les paul i like to cheers now

@davidshortino1138 3 года назад

Rhett, great funk lesson by you and Tomo Fujita. I learned some new funk techniques. Glad you're back to playing again!!

@hedgy369 3 года назад

Jim Dunlop jazz 1 picks (not 3), got rounded points and chunky enough to smoothly chucka chucka without getting snagged , you can turn them and use the edge kinda 30 degrees and sounds real smooth and just glides over the strings.

@scottfrommaryland7658 3 года назад

Thanks Rhett, this was a great introduction to funk playing. Something I had been avoiding because I didn't understand it.

@Bomber848480015 3 года назад

Perfect video for me as I am working on this now.

@adriengahery9471 3 года назад

I didn't expect you covering that genre of music! Great content, as always.

@brushstroke3733 3 года назад

Great lesson, Rhett! This is what music is all about - rhythm and feel baby!

@dracul74 3 года назад

Been a longtime subscriber of Tomo’s... love his channel. So many good tips...

@brettnecessary2266 3 года назад

When I started imagining my right hand picking like a locomotive train and messing with the accents being played, a lightbulb went off in my head and I had the funk !! That's how it came to me

@booyakuhsha24 2 года назад

i love rhett! thank you so much for all you do. my mind was blown when you said Tomo was gonna be a part of the video. absolutely incredible stuff! everyone can learn from musicians like you and tomo because you're both so positive and always looking to collab with others. fookin love it rhett! thank you again this was awesome! BRING ON THE FUNK

@notbraindead7298 Год назад

I’ve been a huge fan of Rhett Shull for a long time. He’s an incredibly talented and versatile guitarist.

@dermakmusic Год назад

Gracias

@roballen49 2 года назад

thanks!

@mattgilbert7347 3 года назад

*Funkamentals

@davidoreilly7328 3 года назад

His man wins the the comment section

@matthewtayloryowieresearch1912 3 года назад

Niles Rodgers is my 'bro-mance' guitar go-to guy, his riffs are sick, go get yourself well & truly funked!

@stevepethel6843 3 года назад

Mute with left hand to determine length of note , alternating. Staccato accents rhythm line 16ths like a drummer percussion leaving out some chords more syncopated. And not so overplaying busy leaving some space and hitting. Sparse. Chords. Thanks for demonstraing guitars part isolated.

@stewart8737 3 года назад

Getting the funk out...great lessons...

@llwonder 3 года назад

Can’t stop - RHCP

@MichaelMYouTube 3 года назад

Thanks for continuing to deliver GREAT content!

@bobo3838 2 года назад

i love tomo fujita! especially his casiopea - ayasake lesson.

@kojam1 2 года назад

Wish I appreciated it when I was a kid. Moved to Canada from Jamaica when I was 6 saw Tom Petty and KISS on TV and was only into hard rock from them on!!! Want to I was waaaaaay older that I appreciated it. Tomo Funk Master desu yo!!! You should also have Guthrie same Phil X on to wax on about it. Saw X through down stone chops ass he demo's a guitar in some guitar store. Been trying to find that vid. That kid gots some chops

@globaltrekkerexplorer Год назад

There is a band The Floozies that has some cool funk guitar. Groovy lesson!

@NoNameNo.5 3 года назад

Rhett, this was dope. Looking forward to more of these, and I love the funk guitar intro lessons.....(cant wait for the bluegrass lesson!)

@charlescostarella 3 года назад

Paul Jackson Jr. had a strat that had "the sound" that all the producers he worked for wanted back in the day. But he plays mostly Paul type guitars now.Still sounds just as funky.

@revrocks3 3 года назад

So Cool! More ToMo please!

@matthewh6119 3 года назад

Thanks Rhett! Love the beginner lessons.

@gcoudert 3 года назад

This has to be the best funk guitar video on YT. Thank you so much from a frustrated keyboard-playing guitarist. I'm going to give this another go.

@kennygore1395 3 года назад

that was great.

@PulledPurk 3 года назад

Funk?! Dang, you must be feeling a lot better!

@banditsbikeco3439 Год назад

So glad I watched this video. I’ve always been that guy who loves mutes, and it’s always been pleasing to me…so much that my style is pretty much all based around muting strums. Started doing it from Punk rock influence. At times I’ve thought it was a hindrance, but now I know I need to dive into funk….I think it’s going to help me branch out more.

@roballen49 2 года назад

Good stuff!