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Hallo, my name is MANU and I’ve written an workshop concerning the topic funk/soul guitar...Hope you have fun... Right HandOne mistake, made by many funk-starter is, that they try to set accents with their right hand. The right hand should almost always stroke permanently up and down. Try this before you start! Exercise 1: Put your metronome to let's say 90 bpm, mute the strings with your left hand and play 16th (count: 1 e+e 2 e+e 3 e+e 4 e+e). Try to do this first of all with all strings; if you can do this well, only “scratch” the high e- and b-string, but try to stroke over (!!!) the other strings (don’t touch them!) Then, if you can do this well, only play the high e-string; These muted notes you are playing now are called Ghost Notes; These are a very important part at playing funk-guitar. The movement should be made 45° corner to the strings, not in 90°, like you would do it, playing western guitar. It should look like this: Wrong: 
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The movement should come out of your wrist. It should feel a bit like turning a key. The next step is setting accents: A good exercise for practicing this are these ones…don’t forget that you should permanently stroke up and down. Exercise 2a: 
Exercise 2b: 
Exercise 2c: 
Exercise 2d: 
Now you are able to play real 16th grooves... Lesson Jump Zone
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