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. Rather, its selling point is all about the groove. Core to this is the ...

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Guitar skills: Funk guitarists favour smaller chord voicings using fewer strings – mainly the higher pitched ones. It’s also easier to move these small shapes around more quickly to create melodic ...

Guitar Skills: Paradoxically, one of the greatest challenges faced by the novice chord substitutionist is the minimal groove-driven vamp. There might only be a single chord, or perhaps even just the ...