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[quote name='The Funk' post='451686' date='Apr 1 2009, 04:42 PM']If you like Tom Browne, you should check out his contemporaries/collaborators Don Blackman and Bernard Wright. I always thought Jamaica Funk was about the Island but it's a neighbourhood in Queens, New York.[/quote] Yep all good stuff. Might be worth AM checking out the great Paul Jackson as well...good finger style. Garry

[quote name='The Funk' post='451623' date='Apr 1 2009, 03:51 PM']There's so much great funk music out there. I kind of agree with Alex about steering clear of trying to cop Rocco or the Jamaica, Queens, NY '80s funk or the N'awlins Meters funk until you get your head around the funk in general[/quote] You should never stear clear of any FUNK!.. Listen to as much as possible, Its good for the soul. But you are right, playing it is another thing. A basic chart for Jamaica... Add your own fills for taste...[not to show off] [attachment=23166:Jamaica_Funk.pdf] Garry

Commercial funk this one - but a f**k off Bass line.. Garry

[quote name='AM1' post='451489' date='Apr 1 2009, 01:59 PM']I think what he meant was it's getting the groove that's the difficult bit. [b]It's all about groove!![/b][/quote] Thats exactly what i meant when i said there was a swing [16th] about the groove. Garry

[quote name='51m0n' post='451473' date='Apr 1 2009, 01:40 PM']Even Sex Machine, which is not that tough of a riff, is really taxing on people coming from a rock/punk/blues or even jazz rhythmic background. Bootsy laid down some of the all time ultimate funk grooves with JB, and a lot of them use very natural sounding, but really hard to nail 16th note syncopation, and the real trick is he often played lines that syncopate off different 16th notes each beat in the bar.[/quote] No its not a tough riff, Its the swing feel that Bootsy played, that tells it apart from a lot of guys i hear play it. Garry

Feeling natural about playing [b]syncopation.[/b] is a good start. Its Not always about what scales or modes you use. If you play a phrase just using octaves, ghost notes, and rests, [ say in G for ex ] And its well syncopated, or accented at other points other than just one, done right can be very Funky. Rocco from TOP does a lot of that. Even when he is using fast 16th patterns there is plenty of syncopation and accents. Garry

[quote name='Rich' post='449073' date='Mar 29 2009, 10:58 PM']one of them was from Alan Davey, the ex-Hawkwind [s]Lemmy wannabe[/s] bassist, and he'd put [i]one of his own basslines [/i]in his top 10. Bloody hell. What sort of titanic ego does it take to rate your own work like that?[/quote] And with one that sunk without a trace as well. Garry

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='449088' date='Mar 29 2009, 11:26 PM']I love that Sadowsky ad: "the last two years have been a period of intense collaboration, experimenting and prototyping ...." And the result? ...a Fender Jazz copy! [/quote] But I think its the other way around these days... Fenders are Cheap nasty versions of the Sadowsky... Garry

I have been a big fan of Will Lee for years... He is quite an established session vocalist as well. seen him live a few times...He gets a huge sound. Garry

Sold a Double Bass bow to Warpig. Nice and easy transaction with Quick payment. Good one. Garry

Put a dead fish in the back of the Guitards amp. Garry

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='445062' date='Mar 25 2009, 03:33 PM']Yeah, my plodder was pretty much the same until I wrote a song that does 3/4 4/4 5/4. It's been his favourite ever since. [/quote] Is that not just three bars of 4/4 ? Thats why he liked it of course... Garry

[quote name='crez5150' post='445224' date='Mar 25 2009, 06:09 PM']I've had worse.......[/quote] Oh Dear...Essex girls eh.. Garry

[quote name='crez5150' post='445186' date='Mar 25 2009, 05:43 PM']Playing a Status is like making love to a beautiful woman.......... [/quote] And you would shag a headless woman..? Good grief..! Garry

[quote name='Marky L' post='443953' date='Mar 24 2009, 04:47 PM']Oh man, our drummer.. please never let me near a gun when he is in the same room. He can not keep a regular time. When we play live he seems to get worse and songs begin to get faster and faster. We had a gig at the weekend and I start Mustang Sally (yeah.. yawn) and by the end of the first verse I swear we had taken it up by 20bpm at least. Had to turn round and shout to him to slow down. That and he drums like a granny doing her knitting. Tippy tap tippy tap with no guts. And he can't play slowly loud and equally can't play fast softly. Has no idea about dynamics and I don't think he can count past 1. It is such a hard job to play with him, you can see and hear when he has forgotten where he is in a song, head up, dear caught in head lights look and he plays all quietly so he can try to cover his mistakes. Oh and he can't do fills in time. Has a frightful taste in music. Has no imagination. He insists on counting in EVERY song (even when he starts one on hs own!) but really quietly so you can't hear. And it's always him that gets up from behind his kit in rehearsal to tell others how to sing a song with some long rambling nonsense!! ARRGHH!! I get angry sometimes!![/quote] Who the hell named him Drummer I blame the mother and father. Garry

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='443796' date='Mar 24 2009, 02:19 PM']So I'd avoid gimmicks, avoid slap, avoid "licks", just get a bit animal with the instrument and hope it made sense in their heads. [b]It usually did,[/b] . [/quote] And where was this? Rampton? Garry

[quote name='Eight' post='443467' date='Mar 24 2009, 09:42 AM']Bopland? I thought it was a Ramones site. Cool anecdote though - I liked that.[/quote] That would then read - Ramones, did not quite make it to Bopland. Garry

[quote name='Hamster' post='443254' date='Mar 23 2009, 11:01 PM']I wish I'd read the last post first before clicking on the link! 175 pages of the same notes played in different orders :wacko:[/quote] The clue is in the title and the link... Talking of Bop......... From Ed (Pete) Peterson at Omega Studios in DC area. "Pete went to the Manhattan School of Music in the early 1960s and studied trumpet with William Vacchiano. Vacchiano was big on teaching trumpet students to transpose various parts for variously pitched trumpet parts. Apparently Miles Davis (the famous jazz trumpeter) studied briefly with Vacchiano in the 1950's. One lesson, Vacchiano was teaching Miles and asked, "If the piano is in the key of E, where does that put the trumpet?" Miles replied, "Back in the fu*king case!" Garry

Oh yes....good one. Now we await the bearded Bilbo. Garry

[quote name='JohnSlade07' post='442182' date='Mar 23 2009, 07:47 AM']Obviously a thriving blues scene in the Kent delta then lol![/quote] I hear Morris Dancing is alive and kicking in Kent. Trade your Bass in for a pair of pointy shoes with bells on the end, and a nice pair of white tights. Much better than " i woke up this morning"...... Garry