Welcome To The School Of Funk!

Hi everyone,

Bobby here. I realize it’s been a long time since our last blog, but I only returned home yesterday from Brit Floyd’s 13 week, 65 gig tour of the US and Canada. I’m feeling a little jetlagged, so if I fall asleep while writing this, I can only apologizzzzzzz… WHAT? Sorry, I genuinely drifted off for a second there.

I could ramble on and on with tales from the road, but I thought I’d concentrate on all things FretHub for now. There’s great news for funk lovers. We have fantastic, fresh new lesson content available in FretHub’s ever-growing Intermediate section, entitled Funk Rhythm Guitar.

We can confidently say that we now have what can only be described as the definitive guide to funk guitar playing. In this 7-part series of lessons, Nick demonstrates a wealth of valuable techniques and ideas for both classic and modern funk.

Regardless of your playing style, you’re likely to find yourself performing a funky rhythm guitar part at some point in your musical future. This comprehensive module will teach you all the common chord voicings, inversions and techniques used on popular funk records by artists ranging from James Brown to The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

You will learn groove-based vamping ideas, made popular by Nile Rogers of Chic, as well as developing other crucial skills, such as leaving space and locking in with your bass player and drummer.

Nick also teaches you rhythmic strumming and muting techniques; choppy, percussive single-note lines; how to use fills in your riffs; tips for applying dynamics and even some blues-based 12-bar ideas. If you want to take your rhythm guitar playing to the next level, this series of videos is for you.

As always, both Nick and myself would like to take this opportunity to extend a very warm welcome to all our new members and also to thank our long-serving, loyal FretHubbers for their continuing support. Don’t forget, in addition to FretHub’s homepage, you can also follow us on Twitter and ‘Like’ our Facebook page.

I just wanted to wrap things up by letting you know that we intend to film a wealth of new lesson content over the coming months and we’re sure you’ll like what we have to offer.

Have a great week and thanks, once again, for continuing to learn guitar online with FretHub.

All the best,

Bobby and Nick

View from the stage. Brit Floyd, Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo by Ian Cattell.

Testimonials

Hi guys, I am absolutely loving this. I am 61 and been wanting to learn forever. I have been taking lessons for around 6 months intermittently and have been struggling. Your lessons are excellent and so good to be able to retrace your steps each time you lose the way. Easy to follow and progress at the speed to suit yor learning ability. Just brilliant so far and you have such a great way of teaching… Thanks a million. One day I will get to play that Les Paul Junior :>) Cheers, Mark.

~ Mark Hazell – FretHub member

I can’t thank you enough for helping me get out of the bedroom! This year, I joined a band and last Friday I played my fourth live gig in a community hall and nailed the Pink Floyd lead break on “Time”, thanks to your really fantastic tutorial. My fingers are calloused, but my Tele has a reason to shine!

~ Paul Cunningham – FretHub member

As a 37 year old beginner guitarist, just over two years ago, I had no idea where to start. Joining Fret Hub was one of the most important decisions that I made. The lessons had me playing chords and songs in no time. Also, the tutorials on scales that included backing tracks, enabled me to start learning how to solo very early on. The lessons are very well taught and easy to follow. All of this came at a price of just over what one single private lesson can cost. I am now playing in a local band and we have just begun gigging in local bars. I would give my FretHub experience a great deal of credit for enabling this to happen. Thank you, guys!!!

~ Chad Chacchia – Dallas, TX