I used to teach that if you think of your fretting hand as "paint" , your picking hand is the "brush" and you use all "different types of brushes" in playing with dynamics.
Man...I'm not one to dispute you pros up here, but I have been playing Funk rythm guitar since the 70's and the 16th note strumming of the right hand is absolutely essential to the sound. Garry Shider of PFunk fame once told me that the right hand is the drummer. Keep it rock solid and mute and ghost with the fret hand. That what the fellas call adding a little chicken grease...and that is the flavor of Funk rythm guitar. lol Check out Al McKay from Earth, Wind, and Fire, Brunno Speight from the SOS Band, Nile Rogers from Chic, ErniecIslet from the Isley Brothers, Prince, and MANY countless others. These guys are the epitome of Funk guitar royalty...but the right hand is steady pumping out 16ths and even 32nds. I do get out of the steady right hand pattern but that is to accent or do horn or organ sort of stabs but on most songs, it's right back to 16ths. Great video and tips!
I was looking through the comments to see if anyone picked up on this. The 16th note grid is so important for funk guitar and any other guitar playing really, including solos. And that 'chopping' sound is super necessary to that funk guitar style. I remember watching a Nile Rodgers video about the first time he learnt it and how it chamged the way he played.
As a drummer who's being really getting into the guitar in the last 4 years, I can say the depth of the guitar and how many different ways you can play it are amazing. The drums will always have a special place in my heart, but the guitar is just so beautiful. I can express myself in ways I never can by drumming.
Im the opposite. I played guitar for years. Starting at 10 years old. I got a set of drums and had such a blast. From the very start i was hooked. But i still love my guitars.
I’ve been playing for over 30 years and you just laid out in 15 minutes many things I had to stumble into and have become subconscious, good challenge on “deliberate-ness” and thoughtfulness in what our fingers can do. New insight for me was that palm muting and raking are kin... I never really embraced raking but I’ll have a play after this. Thanks for sharing👍
I have found that using different parts of my fingers on my fret hand, like the soft, fleshy part vs the harder tip of my fingers can affect on how the note blooms. Even using extremely minor adjustments of pressure on the strings or slight adjustments on the position of my fingers can affect the tone greatly. Not like muting with the fret hand, it's much more subtle than that, but it has a great effect.
smiles. a german teaching a red head to play funk. I still remember henning talking about how his house was classical music and blues was a bit of anathema to him. both sounded good but I have a bent brain (aka liking HP)
Even though Hendrix was actually right-handed yet played guitar left-handed. And even though Mark Knopfler is actually left-handed yet he plays guitar right -handed ?
Thanks for your instructional guitar videos, Robert. I recently donated to your fantastic tab web site. It's really helping to improve my playing as well as getting out of rut of playing the same 'ol licks practice routine.
Just got me a prs so vela our 7 Guage strings lowered the action now I'm getting my sounds I want and can felt it in my tone and this guitar is absolutely the best feel I've ever had loved the lesson
Holy hell that place is like a playground for guitarists .....and I’m a newbie ,I could imagine what a guitarist who could actually benefit from all those amp heads is feeling...
I think Angus achieves his fast shimmying vibrato kind of how you were explaining with the violin type- rocking your hand back and forth vibrato. Very well explained video man!
excellent topic! gear is a TON of fun, and can be inspirational, but good hands always means more. Just like when Henning picks up the guitar, and it sounds different, between the two it’s like switching between a spongy and solid state power section on an amp, but way more pronounced. good topic, more please, like “same gear, very different hands”
Really Great Lesson. You touched on so many things that I've been working on, especially in the funk section. I've learned Funk 49, and I have a harder time with the right hand than the left. I also want to "fill in" for the band, because I always practice and play by myself.
This is one of the most helpful videos in my twenty plus years of trying to play guitar
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Awesome take on funk. lndeed the idea is for the band to create an elaborated groove, each with simple parts without stepping on other bandmates' heels. You often see bass players thinking you have to go slap crazy for something to be funky, then you hear giants like Verdine White or Bootsy just playing the 'one', creating a huge space for the snare and vocals.
DYNAMICS !!! Dynamics is lost, sometimes, when kids use a ton of gain. Use a thick/heavy pick and HIT HARD. Really digging-in just makes things sound so MEAN.
Billy Gibbons is primarily using an upstroke because that riff is a little syncopated and it's the upbeat being accented. But yeah, the tone of that is definitely different.
Great lesson! There is so much to think about while learning to play. And I guess it's about getting to the point where you're not thinking about it so much as having a natural awareness of your techniques available to you. Just subscribed, and I will subscribe to Hennings as well. His interrupt was great too. Thanks.
yep she`s mine. thank you, original except paint, carb and a couple little things,1968, 383 4bbl. with rally dash, buckets and console shift automatic. blk, int. was red with blk vinyl top, I have a new vinyl top just not putting it on. restored in 99 and just got out of storage last year cuz the guy`s business it was restored in and stored at closed his doors and sold the building,, made it thru 2 ex wives that had no clue I owned it. had it since early 80`s and kept it a secret til I married a girl that her dad worked where I restored the car at 8 yrs. ago. that's my story and I'm sticking to it.. lol
Nah, I'm gonna pass on the Henning recommendation. I already unsubscribed long time ago; He's pretty annoying after a while and can't accept people comments that don't praise him, even very polite comments that just prove him wrong (to the point to ban/block these people).
Been looking at the Schecter PT for a little while. I sure do want one. Guitar center keeps pressing back my backorder for the Schecter Solo II. I may just cancel and grab this tele style guitar. Beautiful tone!
Main tone does come from the right hand but note choice and feel comes from the left. Also vibrato is important on all fingers... including the pinky!! And vibrato in chords is important too...and not playing too much....lol
Is that Schecter stock? Sounds fantastic. Now i have to consider a Schecter over a Fender? Damn.... What are you playing through? Great tones. Valuable lessons, thanks.
CentaurusRelax314 I felt the same when I saw this..I had to have this guitar..I've always liked the television but always thought the headstock looked stupid..anyway this is The Schecter PT Special..everywhere I looked they go for $600..mine will get here Monday 😊🤘🎸
I've always hated the "television," largely because of the headstock. I've only begun to embrace both within the past year. Congrats on your order. Come back and let me/us know how you like it.
@@darylclouse8624 hey, hows it been? Considering picking up a PT special over a player tele as well. Cant really find reviews on the PT. Can you tell me the good bad ugly please
re: vibrato: i notice lots of youtuber guitarists do this "shake the guitar neck on the final held chord" thing which adds a subtle vibrato similar to left-right vibrato. I seem to be seeing it all the time now, whereas never really, before.
Man you make great videos.. I need to work on my palm muting.. and even that funk lesson was cool he’s right I always wanna fill wit muting cuz it sounds good alone but wit a band I guess it wouldn’t. Thanks for your content
Wow, what a fantastic lesson! Thanks for sharing. The only drawback is I don't need another guitar and that is a sweet looking and sounding guitar. lol
Can you go much more into depth on this topic? Of how to get lots of different sounds and techniques with just using hands and fingers, not depending on pedals? Thanks.
Violin style vibrato doesn't work like it does on a violin because of the frets on the guitar neck, instead of your finger fretting the note like on a violin. So you're getting the vibrato in the same manner normal bending vibrato, it's just subtler because the string isn't bending as much. You probably know that, just thought I'd point it out.
this is my argument for cheap and expensive guitars,, you can play a cheap guitar as well as a expensive one, cheap guitars will accept a good playable set-up as a exp. guitar will. I say guitar playing is 90% player and 10% guitar, the sounds you create comes from your touch and feel. of course this comes after you can play something, the first song you played was Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple) it didn't go well the first few times you played it cuz you had to make it sound like you hear it.. pickups are pickups,, some wound more some wound less.. its still just wire wrapped around magnets you can make yourself,, I know I made one,,, in the making of the guitar its not the wood, the pickups, the strings nor the tuners, its all that mixed together that's is a perfect dust collector if you don't play it. the difference between being a Edward Van Halen and a Stevie Rat Von is not the guitar its the talent. its the way they play and then there`s the way we play.
I found it funny a mentor has a mentor who has a mentor...I thought he was hijacking it he's very cool he showed me something which explains what your doing because u need skills to do that dude u have them
I used to teach that if you think of your fretting hand as "paint" , your picking hand is the "brush" and you use all "different types of brushes" in playing with dynamics.
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Man...I'm not one to dispute you pros up here, but I have been playing Funk rythm guitar since the 70's and the 16th note strumming of the right hand is absolutely essential to the sound. Garry Shider of PFunk fame once told me that the right hand is the drummer. Keep it rock solid and mute and ghost with the fret hand. That what the fellas call adding a little chicken grease...and that is the flavor of Funk rythm guitar. lol
Check out Al McKay from Earth, Wind, and Fire, Brunno Speight from the SOS Band, Nile Rogers from Chic, ErniecIslet from the Isley Brothers, Prince, and MANY countless others. These guys are the epitome of Funk guitar royalty...but the right hand is steady pumping out 16ths and even 32nds. I do get out of the steady right hand pattern but that is to accent or do horn or organ sort of stabs but on most songs, it's right back to 16ths.
Great video and tips!
Absolutely! You are right sir, he's mistaken about funk not doing the right hand "scratches" or "mutes".
I was looking through the comments to see if anyone picked up on this.
The 16th note grid is so important for funk guitar and any other guitar playing really, including solos. And that 'chopping' sound is super necessary to that funk guitar style. I remember watching a Nile Rodgers video about the first time he learnt it and how it chamged the way he played.
I haven't heard too many funk songs where they aren't doing the scratches.
Henning doesn't seem to know what he's talking about.
As a drummer who's being really getting into the guitar in the last 4 years, I can say the depth of the guitar and how many different ways you can play it are amazing. The drums will always have a special place in my heart, but the guitar is just so beautiful. I can express myself in ways I never can by drumming.
Im the opposite. I played guitar for years. Starting at 10 years old. I got a set of drums and had such a blast. From the very start i was hooked. But i still love my guitars.
Me too! The guitar opened a new world for me ❤
When you see him playing a TELE style Guitar, you know this video is going to be good
I’ve been playing for over 30 years and you just laid out in 15 minutes many things I had to stumble into and have become subconscious, good challenge on “deliberate-ness” and thoughtfulness in what our fingers can do. New insight for me was that palm muting and raking are kin... I never really embraced raking but I’ll have a play after this. Thanks for sharing👍
I like the song that goes gak gak bamp bamp
Do you mean ZZ TOP's La Grange?
I have found that using different parts of my fingers on my fret hand, like the soft, fleshy part vs the harder tip of my fingers can affect on how the note blooms. Even using extremely minor adjustments of pressure on the strings or slight adjustments on the position of my fingers can affect the tone greatly. Not like muting with the fret hand, it's much more subtle than that, but it has a great effect.
1. Picking direction
2. Vibrato
3. Right hand mute, rake
4. Left hand mute
5. Getting to the note
That is one of the best tones I've ever heard
Revv always kills it :)
I mean look at the studio he's in
First off those Schecters are KILLER! great advice all around! I'm going to buys a Schecter..........
Just want to say thank you when I I have the chance for how inspiring you are to me on my guitar journey
thank you soooo much
I'm in love with your Schecter Tele style guitar. How the neck feels in your hand. I'm struggling to find one to try out.
smiles.
a german teaching a red head to play funk.
I still remember henning talking about how his house was classical music and blues was a bit of anathema to him.
both sounded good but I have a bent brain (aka liking HP)
Your left hand is what you know. Your right hand is who you are.
makes a lot of voodoo sense tho
very true
Deep
Even though Hendrix was actually right-handed yet played guitar left-handed. And even though Mark Knopfler is actually left-handed yet he plays guitar right -handed ?
Thats just wrong both hands are important. The best way to sound better is to be able to sinchronize you rigth hand with your left hand.
Thanks for your instructional guitar videos, Robert. I recently donated to your fantastic tab web site. It's really helping to improve my playing as well as getting out of rut of playing the same 'ol licks practice routine.
Just got me a prs so vela our 7 Guage strings lowered the action now I'm getting my sounds I want and can felt it in my tone and this guitar is absolutely the best feel I've ever had loved the lesson
Holy hell that place is like a playground for guitarists .....and I’m a newbie ,I could imagine what a guitarist who could actually benefit from all those amp heads is feeling...
That funk mute rhythm is one of my kryptonite techniques
Iam loving Hennig? I thunk his name was .....that was awesome . Where’s , what’s his channels name ?
Oops see link above lol for henning
I think Angus achieves his fast shimmying vibrato kind of how you were explaining with the violin type- rocking your hand back and forth vibrato. Very well explained video man!
I wanted to hear the PT with funk...its a great tone...thanks for this video
Thanks Rob for the very useful tips.
excellent topic! gear is a TON of fun, and can be inspirational, but good hands always means more. Just like when Henning picks up the guitar, and it sounds different, between the two it’s like switching between a spongy and solid state power section on an amp, but way more pronounced. good topic, more please, like “same gear, very different hands”
Really Great Lesson. You touched on so many things that I've been working on, especially in the funk section. I've learned Funk 49, and I have a harder time with the right hand than the left. I also want to "fill in" for the band, because I always practice and play by myself.
This is one of the most helpful videos in my twenty plus years of trying to play guitar
Awesome take on funk. lndeed the idea is for the band to create an elaborated groove, each with simple parts without stepping on other bandmates' heels. You often see bass players thinking you have to go slap crazy for something to be funky, then you hear giants like Verdine White or Bootsy just playing the 'one', creating a huge space for the snare and vocals.
Dang, that Pt Special has been exactly what I've been looking for. Who knew a contoured tele guitar with p90s would be so hard to get my hands on!
Has that ashtray bridge unfortunately
Check out the Bacchus BTE 2!
iv ALWAYS down picked, cuz it was easier lol, but i now know to change it up and try more, thank ya dude, rock on
Honestly you're videos are really good and you do make a ton of good points, I'm subscribing. You deserve more subs
Thank you so much I really appreciate that :) and welcome!
Love the PT Special
Thank you for showing the bend Rake technique, I love that sound and didn't know what it was called. I'll practice doing it your way, looks good.
DYNAMICS !!! Dynamics is lost, sometimes, when kids use a ton of gain. Use a thick/heavy pick and HIT HARD. Really digging-in just makes things sound so MEAN.
Great video, makes you look at playing in a different way and to consider your options.
I like Epseitchi He is a great player and has an awesome studio also.
Billy Gibbons is primarily using an upstroke because that riff is a little syncopated and it's the upbeat being accented. But yeah, the tone of that is definitely different.
5:32 Who needs a pinkie when you can stretch like that? Bonus points for the Randy "The Macho Man" Savage sound effects.
Great video! I always take something away from your videos which inspires me to keep playing. Thank you!
I noticed this guitar has a very similar shape to a suhr guitar. Does anybody know how the neck shape and feel is compared to a suhr?
Great lesson! There is so much to think about while learning to play. And I guess it's about getting to the point where you're not thinking about it so much as having a natural awareness of your techniques available to you. Just subscribed, and I will subscribe to Hennings as well. His interrupt was great too. Thanks.
you keep playing with your hair, do you like me.
There's something I need to tell you
no no no don't say it, just let it be so we can keep our fantasy's
that literally made me laugh out loud. :-D
Gonzo 59 Is that Charger yours? She's a beauty.
yep she`s mine. thank you, original except paint, carb and a couple little things,1968, 383 4bbl. with rally dash, buckets and console shift automatic. blk, int. was red with blk vinyl top, I have a new vinyl top just not putting it on. restored in 99 and just got out of storage last year cuz the guy`s business it was restored in and stored at closed his doors and sold the building,, made it thru 2 ex wives that had no clue I owned it. had it since early 80`s and kept it a secret til I married a girl that her dad worked where I restored the car at 8 yrs. ago. that's my story and I'm sticking to it.. lol
That tone though
Hey Rob, what did you think about the schecter pt special you were playing in the video?
Nah, I'm gonna pass on the Henning recommendation. I already unsubscribed long time ago; He's pretty annoying after a while and can't accept people comments that don't praise him, even very polite comments that just prove him wrong (to the point to ban/block these people).
Very very very helpful video ,thank you so much 😁
Really useful video thanks.
Sounds great Rob! Amazing
Great lesson...thanks.
When in the room came man in blue T-Shirt I anderstood, that it is German "Hard Rock, Blues, Cool Music mafia"
Great tips.
Plays a killer run, then says, "That was a random lick. I don't even know what just happened..."
Haha true.
Been looking at the Schecter PT for a little while. I sure do want one. Guitar center keeps pressing back my backorder for the Schecter Solo II. I may just cancel and grab this tele style guitar. Beautiful tone!
That Schecter sounds great
Are you using the stick treble pickup. And or is it series or parallel
this is a big lesson! thanks.
Wow I'm surprised your video show up in my recommended feed so fast haha, great vid by the way
thank you :)
Main tone does come from the right hand but note choice and feel comes from the left. Also vibrato is important on all fingers... including the pinky!! And vibrato in chords is important too...and not playing too much....lol
That's a nice Schecter, like the white binding. With all the guitars he has I wonder why you grabbed that one.
Hey Robert great video as always.. Thanks!
Great video! Great tips and discussion!!!!
This video was awesome.
I just found out my vibrato has attitude, I like it even more now :D
Awesome man!! Thank you for sharing!! 🎸🤘
Can you please tell me what amp are you using in this video thanks
How to make your hands sound better: Essential oils. 😂
I love these Schecters. I want one so bad.
Wow I was like baker is "Moving on up" to a deluxe Studio Apartment in the Sky-Ah…. haha very nice tone lounge.
Lol 😆
thanks for the video, whould you recomend that schecter pt special?. looks amazing and sounds too
Is that Schecter stock? Sounds fantastic. Now i have to consider a Schecter over a Fender? Damn.... What are you playing through? Great tones.
Valuable lessons, thanks.
CentaurusRelax314 I felt the same when I saw this..I had to have this guitar..I've always liked the television but always thought the headstock looked stupid..anyway this is The Schecter PT Special..everywhere I looked they go for $600..mine will get here Monday 😊🤘🎸
I've always hated the "television," largely because of the headstock. I've only begun to embrace both within the past year. Congrats on your order. Come back and let me/us know how you like it.
@@darylclouse8624 hey, hows it been? Considering picking up a PT special over a player tele as well. Cant really find reviews on the PT. Can you tell me the good bad ugly please
sweet axe..
re: vibrato: i notice lots of youtuber guitarists do this "shake the guitar neck on the final held chord" thing which adds a subtle vibrato similar to left-right vibrato. I seem to be seeing it all the time now, whereas never really, before.
I have learned so much from you.keep going man great stuff, ☮️
thank you!
Man you make great videos.. I need to work on my palm muting.. and even that funk lesson was cool he’s right I always wanna fill wit muting cuz it sounds good alone but wit a band I guess it wouldn’t. Thanks for your content
Wow, what a fantastic lesson! Thanks for sharing. The only drawback is I don't need another guitar and that is a sweet looking and sounding guitar. lol
Great tips!
Can you go much more into depth on this topic? Of how to get lots of different sounds and techniques with just using hands and fingers, not depending on pedals? Thanks.
when teaching after know then add the effects an tones
@robertbakerguitar do you still have that schecter? I’d love a demo vid
It's so obvious in LaGrange....Makes that riff.
Was that a Freidman you were going through? Sounds great!
Violin style vibrato doesn't work like it does on a violin because of the frets on the guitar neck, instead of your finger fretting the note like on a violin. So you're getting the vibrato in the same manner normal bending vibrato, it's just subtler because the string isn't bending as much. You probably know that, just thought I'd point it out.
thanks rob for another great vid✌💪
Hey there Ely thanks man
Left hand audio signal in this video was way heavier than the right.
The extra ringing note at 15:23 sounded good to me. If you hadn't said anything I would have thought you meant to do it.
That's odd the guitar in the link above is not the tele type being played in the video
Awesome videos, just started playing. Come across you when I was recommended dragon pics. Thanks for the $1.10 in savings lol
thanks so much man and hope you dig the picks:)
Do you have any videos on sweep picking at all or any methods to make anything super fast blend a bit better and make it a bit easier ?
Hi Ryan I do have a few floating around :)
this is my argument for cheap and expensive guitars,, you can play a cheap guitar as well as a expensive one, cheap guitars will accept a good playable set-up as a exp. guitar will. I say guitar playing is 90% player and 10% guitar, the sounds you create comes from your touch and feel. of course this comes after you can play something, the first song you played was Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple) it didn't go well the first few times you played it cuz you had to make it sound like you hear it.. pickups are pickups,, some wound more some wound less.. its still just wire wrapped around magnets you can make yourself,, I know I made one,,, in the making of the guitar its not the wood, the pickups, the strings nor the tuners, its all that mixed together that's is a perfect dust collector if you don't play it. the difference between being a Edward Van Halen and a Stevie Rat Von is not the guitar its the talent. its the way they play and then there`s the way we play.
How many awesome amp heads 😢❤️
I found it funny a mentor has a mentor who has a mentor...I thought he was hijacking it he's very cool he showed me something which explains what your doing because u need skills to do that dude u have them
Despite utube, i do kno what u mean. Good show!
hp42 studio!
What about the Steve Vai circle vibrato?
Schecter PT Fastback!!!!!
Great vid, I liked this lesson a lot. Also I really hope I win that Schecter competition lol.
thank you and best of luck!
What guitar is that?
You exploded my guitar nerd. Congrats.
hahaha
These are more techniques then actual "tone" But they are good to know.
Your tone is in your hands...we all.sound the same no matter what gear we use...just better or worse depending on if the rig suits the gig....
In sex machine - there is more than the riff he was playing. In between that riff there is a bright per bar note mute played
RIGHT ON BROTHER! O YE......AH!
Here's one technique that I can never seem to get down quite right: practice.
7 years later is that the original bridge pickup for that Schecter?
That a PT Special? I was thinking about buying one
Im nor sure if it was a special but it was a killer guitar
Nile Rogers and Cory Wong do in fact play funk like that.