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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's a special vibe about funk. It's often not considered as virtuosic as rock, as emotive as blues or as intimate as folk.

Learn the basic rhythmic theory used in playing funk guitar. Turn your guitar into a percussion instrument and master the muted scratching technique. Become comfortable with all 16th-note combinations ...

Expand Your Licks and Learn CuttingI started playing guitar and learned the pentatonic scale.However, just playing scales up ...

Pete Weise is a performer and educator based in Dallas-Fort Worth, and holds a BM and MM in Jazz Performance from the University of North Texas. He teaches at Collin College, Dallas College, and the ...

Allow funk musician Cory Wong to take you on a tour through the history of rhythm guitar, over which the innovations of the Chic legend loom large. Illustration: Iris Gottlieb Cory Wong is a ...

Guitar skills: With dissonant chords and aggressive rhythm playing, the harder side of blues-rock overlaps into funk. The ‘7#9’ shape (shown here in F#) below is known as the Hendrix chord thanks to ...

NAMM 2025: Cory Wong with a guitar that isn't a Stratocaster? Do not adjust your set. The maestro of 21st-century funk guitar has teamed up with Ernie Ball Music Man for a pair of signature guitars ...