Make Your Funk Guitar Riffs Funkier! - Guitar Lesson - How To - Tutorial | RJ Ronquillo 2017 

you're becoming one of my favorite guitarists, love the lesson videos!

excellent - more funk when you have time please

Man, this was one of the best instructionals you've made yet, super glad you started makin' 'em.

Superballisious you've got your own sound and feel of your own love it.

Great video! The voice leading stuff at 2:50 is really cool. Shows how knowing your fundamentals is essential even when playing music that some people think is "just one chord". I actually ironically posted a video today about this type of voice leading concept.

Man, there is so much gold here. Thanks RJ!

Brilliant lessons and playing.

Very useful lesson. Thanks for sharing!

R.J. is down to earth, solid on guitar, and fun to learn from. Kudos man, keep 'em comin'.

Great lesson Maestro. The Teles tone is on point. I made a living back in the day playing these same very simple and sparse rythm licks. Fragments are easy and if you got a funky groove, often times...less is more...

RJ. thanks for this great contribution, Master!

LOL ... the shake ! I like it. I always called it a smear.

Best guitar videos on youtube, thanks dude, really helping me expand my playing

dope feel, RJ. FIRE!

This is gold!

thank you for this great lesson!!!

Been following you for a couple weeks now... great call by me. Love your videos and the laid back presentation. Keep it up!

Great stuff! Really fun to learn as an funk guitar beginner!

Still funky mid-pandemic is 2020. Thanks f the lesson!

Nice work, RJ

I’m a big fan. Keep up the great videos R.J. , They are extremely helpful! Thanks man!

Great tip RJ many thanks

Glad I saw this video in the suggested! Really helped me break out of a rut and I stumbled upon some killer funk clean tone with the help of your newer funk video. Bright switch on the normal channel of my 65 Bassman with the guitar volume knob way down. Thanks Brother!

Nice playing ! This LSL has a great tone & seems quite versatile :)

Awesome, love your rhythm playing , would love to hear more of you just playing rhythm to some backing tracks

Great tips, RJ, cheers! That’s a lovely guitar too. ✌️🎸

muy bueno muchas gracias!!!

Whooo! You got me grooving on the porcelain throne!

Nice hip tips... got to revisit my Tower of Power and Meters albums.

It’s now 6/8/21 but I love all your old vids bro!!!

I've only recently discovered your channel, but man, you put out some really good stuff. Also, your interview with Brett Papa was awesome.

Love playing behind the beat... I do it naturally.

black pick guards are really great for showing how much one doesn’t .. play / wipe down .. a guitar ... that’s why all my guitars ( all three ) have .. white pick guards 😎🎸

Mark Lettieri vibe... Nice !

I always fall back on this video when I get stuck in a rut. Thanks RJ!

Kindofa,, less is more thing . Watched your life on the road video the other day , thanks for lettin us in on that part of your life. Really enjoy all your teaching videos . Had a good friend stationed in Okinawa together for a couple a years 86 87 I got out he kept going really wish we would’ve stayed in touch . He is a Phillipino guy too Virgil Garcia . Don’t know why I said all that , just to say why can’t we all just get along and stop trying to control the game . Love the way you play and teach !! Thanks!!

Genius

Ha, I was going to say Notorious. Great funky funk funk. Great sounding guitar too.

I likes it guru!!!

Great stuff! But then again you always got great stuff. Found some new gems in this one, although a bunch of that stuff I find myself doing too. I wonder who some of your funk influences are, maybe we’ve heard some of the same stuff? One other embellishment thing I like to do I stole from the bass part on Ledisi Go where I send thee, is a whole step hammer ons while descending . I usually don’t do more then two or three for fills. Anyways cool stuff

Gracias!

yeah..more of this please..:)

Love your Tele man is that a Seymour Duncan jb in the bridge position great lesson

Sounds like Prince, I like it.

🤘🏾🎸 subbed

You have a real natural touch/talent for the guitar. How many guitars do you own? Are all the guitars in your vids your own or do you borough them. What brands are you sponsored by and endorsing?

Kool!

Yes and yes ...

Def like some more in depth funk lesson by you ;)

You had me laughing with that 1st basic chord example!

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do you have the backing track that you were using for that first (2 note) chord riff?

keep making these videos! they are always inspiring to make me better. LOVE your Del Guapos shirt retro like the Monkees! RJ and the Del Guapos should make another record. sweet telecaster! is that a Lil ‘59 in the bridge?!?! what string gauge and brand do you use? thanks RJ!

Say R.J. I GOT A QUESTION! check it - i just got hired as guitar for an R&B thing and I need to get that crisp strat sound for comping. A lot like what you hear on the old Motown records. I'm pretty sure its direct to the board stuff. what would you use to approximate that with your amplified rig?

Do you use any of the UAD amp plugins? If you do, I’d love to see a video on those and your general thoughts on amp plugins. I ask because I recently got a UAD Arrow and I’m feeling like I get better tone with it than my mic’ed tube amp.

Barney Miller theme tune !

Thanks for the video, such amazing talent! Just curious, what string size do you prefer? Cheers from Knoxville :)

I would love to go to a jam session sometime like you mentioned in the beginning. I live in Nashville and none of my friends are musicians and I have kids/job/wife. I’m dying to play tunes with other people (tired of playing alone) but I also am just looking to have fun, not commitment (yet). I have been playing a long time and just want to jam with some other good musicians. Any recommendations on networking for a guy like me?

this is what I call "sidewalk funk" I really want to get mix dark latin chords with this kind of funk but can't quite figure it out. You know use some dimished stuff some 6 chords maybe.

Dig the Duncun 59 pickup

How can I get one of those T-shirts??

6:14 = Barney Miller

Gotta apply this to my music, check it out monsieur ronqilio

I like your style bruh. youre cool and i like the way you dress and shit. you remind me or Keith urban.

video speed x 1,25 --> Ffffffooooooooonkyyyy !!!

Somehow, you sound Dutch to me ...