01 D7 Funky Vampmp3wma
Time/size: 3 mins 28 secs/4.79mb
Funk jam track: vamp on a D7 chord (80 beats per minute/bpm)
Backing track instruments: electric guitar, bass and drums
Suggestions: Get into the Rhythm of the song, play with the bass, use triads from a D7 chord. As well as the usual blues scale try playing it with a Mixolydian Scale.
02 B Funk in L.A.mp3wma
Time/size: 3 mins 53 secs/5.36mb
Funk jam track: A 6 and a 1/2 bar Funk progression in B (84 beats per minute/bpm)
Backing track instruments: electric guitar, bass and drums
Suggestion(s): The chords in this are B5, D5 and E7.
You really need to use a scale for each chord here.
03 E Funk-Emp3wma
Time/size: 3 mins 44 secs/5.15mb
Funk jam track: Uptown Blues in E.(94 beats per minute/bpm)
Backing track instruments: electric guitar, bass and drums
Suggestion(s): This progression is E7#9, A7, B7.
The E7#9 is the 'Hendrix chord' that Jimi used on Foxey Lady and Purple Haze.
Learn how to play that chord in E and let Jimi take over.
04 E Smell That Funkmp3wma
Time/size: 4 mins 57 secs/6.84mb
Funk jam track: A funky riff in E (90 beats per minute/bpm)
Backing track instruments: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass and drums
Suggestion(s): Play along with the riff and start to break out.
05 E Steve Jordan Is Coolmp3wma
Time/size: 5 mins 15 secs/7.24mb
Funk jam track: Funky groove in E (88 beats per minute/bpm)
Backing track instruments: electric guitar, bass and drums
Suggestion(s): Chord used is E7.
An E blues scale is a good place to start on this. Get funky.
06 Bb Funk Zeppelinmp3wma
Time/size: 7 mins 20 secs/10mb
Funk jam track: Funk Rock groove type thang in Bb (80 beats per minute/bpm)
Backing track instruments: electric guitar, bass and drums
Progression is made up of: Bb7, Eb7, F7 - using a standard blues progression
Suggestion(s): Play a Bb blues scale over the whole song
Space out your phrasing and play to complement the syncopation of the rhythm section.
07 D Funkadelicmp3wma
Time/size: 5 mins 38 secs/7.74mb
Funk jam track: Funk Jazz feel in D (78 beats per minute/bpm)
Backing track instruments: electric guitar, bass and drums
Progression is made up of: DMaj7 to GMaj7
Note: there are full chord slides from DbMaj7 to the DMaj7 and GbMaj7 to the GMaj7
Suggestion(s): Play a D Major Scale (Ionian mode) over the DMaj7 and a G Lydian Scale over the GMaj7. Space out your phrasing and play to complement the syncopation of the rhythm section.
Music Theory - The Lydian Scale
The Lydian scale is a scale that uses the Root, Major 2nd, Major 3rd, Raised (or Sharp) 4th, Perfect 5th, Major 6th and 7th notes when comparing it to the Major scale.
If we name the 7 notes of any Major scale by numbering them 1 through to 7
Major Scale: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 compared to the Major scale the Lydian scale has a raised,
or sharp 4th. Lydian Scale: 1, 2, 3, #4, 5, 6, 7
If we take the G Major scale we get: G Major: G, A, B, C, D, E, F#, G
taking the sharp 4th of the G Major scale gives us the
G Lydian scale: G, A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G.
Anytime you want to play a Lydian scale you can work it back from the Major scale
simply be sharpening the 4th of the Major scale (using the same Root note).
