Funk & Soul Lessons Course

Rhythm and Blues is a genre known for its smooth grooves, soulful melodies, and infectious rhythms. In this tutorial, we'll explore some fundamental techniques and concepts that will help you develop a strong foundation of rhythm guitar in an R&B style. We'll explore some essential approaches such as backbeat staccato strums, combining strumming and arpeggiation, and some simple chord embellishments. Finally, we'll finish up with a practice song that combines everything we've learned.

R&B is a genre known for its smooth grooves, soulful melodies, and infectious rhythms. In this tutorial, we'll explore the key techniques that will help you develop a strong foundation of lead guitar in an R&B style. We'll delve into the importance of phrasing, techniques like bending, sliding, and hammer-ons, and how to use double stops to create smooth, fluid leads. Finally, we'll finish up with a practice song that combines everything we've learned.

Rhythm and Blues is a genre known for its smooth grooves, soulful melodies, and infectious rhythms. In this tutorial, we'll explore some fundamental techniques and concepts that will help you develop a strong foundation of rhythm guitar in an R&B style. We'll explore some essential approaches such as backbeat staccato strums, combining strumming and arpeggiation, and some simple chord embellishments. Finally, we'll finish up with a practice song that combines everything we've learned.

R&B is a genre known for its smooth grooves, soulful melodies, and infectious rhythms. In this tutorial, we'll continue to move forward into techniques and concepts that will help you expand your foundation of rhythm guitar in an R&B style. We'll dive into extended jazzy chords, adventurous chord progressions with modulations, connecting chords with single note ideas, muted strums and tasty embellishments. Finally, we'll finish up with a practice song that combines everything we've learned.

in this set of lessons, HP Kruesi will show you how to play some smoky funk. HP talks about the overall ideas within the tutorial, then teaches the rhythm guitar part. The we'll look at the scale used to form the licks, and then we'll learn four licks you can play over this groove. In lesson 8 we'll break down a chord solo, then conclude by putting it all together.

This tutorial is a collection of funky guitar ideas that are inspired by the music of James Brown.

R&B is a genre known for its smooth grooves, soulful melodies, and infectious rhythms. In this tutorial, we'll dive deeper into lead guitar approaches that are sure to kick your R&B jams up a notch. By being more mindful of the chord progression we're soloing over, we can employ chord tone soloing to great effect! We'll also bust out some tried and true bluesy and R&B lick approaches. Finally, we'll finish up with a practice song that combines everything we've learned.

In this tutorial, we'll continue on from Part 1 and dive deeper into the techniques and approaches that make R&B lead guitar so much fun to play. We'll explore single note lines that complement the chords of the progression, use 6th interval shapes to create melodic leads, incorporate some bluesy sounds, and use slides and hammer-ons with double stops to create even more textured lick ideas. Finally, we'll finish up with a practice song that combines everything we've learned.

In this tutorial we will learn to play some soulful rhythm and blues guitar style rhythm parts & lead licks in a minor key. This style is rooted strongly in blues and jazz, with distinctly soulful melodies and bittersweet jazzy chords. You can also hear a bit of a funky approach in the use of syncopated, percussive and staccato rhythms. We'll put it all together in this tutorial.

Joel Van Dijk demonstrates 10 examples of funky rhythm playing, in the style of P-Funk, Prince, and others.

In this tutorial we're going to study funk guitar in the style of Cory Wong. This style is known for using crisp, percussive rhythms and tight riffing. This style features plenty of precision, energy, and groove. We'll break it down into several key components, learn what makes it special, and then learn to play riffs and licks in this style.