Avi Bortnick plays rhythm guitar and electronics in the John Scofield Überjam Band, and guitar in the jam band Hola! He also creates apps, including Time Guru, Echo Pitch, and VoxBeat. Find him at ...

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 ...

Early funk is often associated with the Godfather Of Soul James Brown, who helped pioneer this style of dance music in the late '60s and early '70s. The ubiquitous use of syncopation (playing on the ...

George starts off this easy funky rhythm guitar lesson by first performing the riff so you can hear how it should sound. This funk style riff is in the key of A and is based in the pentatonic scale ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Welcome to our 1970s based funk lesson, the aim of which is to arm you with the skills you'll need to create great '70s-style funk ...

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

For the audio examples of the funk grooves click here With funk guitar, rhythmic grooves and chords are king. It plays an integral rhythmic role alongside the bass guitar and drums in a band, and ...

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 ...

The profound shift from soul and R&B into funk during the '70s saw many bands take up the mantle of James Brown's innovations of the late '60s. In the early part of the decade, African-American bands ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we talk about phrasing on blues guitar, this can often translate to rhythm. It's possible to play a great solo without many ...