Shining Star was a top 40 hit in the mid 70's, bringing a raw, street funk energy to mainstream radio. We laid down the groove for the song in a backing track, and show you how to play the funky rhythm guitars and shredding guitar solo over the top.

This tutorial is a collection of funky guitar ideas that are inspired by the music of James Brown.

Joel Van Dijk demonstrates 10 examples of funky rhythm playing, in the style of P-Funk, Prince, and others.

Here you get introduced to slapping techniques and you are getting more and more into real slapping on guitar.

This tutorial will teach you how to play a funky rhythm and lead. We'll first look at the chords and strumming then add some chord fills. We'll finish it up by learning some licks to play over the chord progression.

This is the first in a series on funky rhythm playing. This is in no way all there is to funk guitar. But if you've never tackled the style before you should, after covering these lessons, be able to pick up most funk stuff that you hear and play it. Funk guitar influence is so widespread that you can hear it in artists from Vai or the Peppers to James Brown, or from rock to pop, and blues or even...

Most of the technique in this one comes from right hand muting. Pinch the strings as much as possible. To pinch, you basically leave as little pick showing as possible and let the side of your thumb simultaneously touch the string at the same time as the pick. The same way you do pinch harmonics except you aren't looking so much for the harmonic this time. Use your right hand palm to mute the s...

Here's lick-1 in a series that accompany a funky beat. They range in difficulty from easy to extreme. Lick-1 is relatively easy. The chords are B9 to A9 played on the 14th fret and 12th fret respectively. The tone of the guitar is not a typical funk tone. I've said it before and I'll say it again: "I love distortion.........it makes my mistakes less noticable." ho=hammer on ~=vibrat...

Lick-2 is another easy one with just a couple of notes. Squeeeze dem notes................more pressure on the fretboard equals longer sustain.........(don't quote me on that.).

Lick-4 uses some of the same parallel note runs used in Lick-3.

Here's Lick-5............The last few notes played at the end of this lick is just a short jam.