The 3.9 Art Collective Presents:Space is the Place: a San Francisco Funk LessonFunk music is multi-layered, a fusion of the past moving toward the future, a flurry of innovation - combining elements ...

The profound shift from soul and R&B into funk during the ’70s saw many bands take up the mantle of James Brown’s innovations of the late ’60s. In the early part of the decade, African-American bands ...

George starts off this easy funky rhythm guitar lesson by first performing the riff so you can hear how it should sound. This funk style riff is in the key of A and is based in the pentatonic scale ...

The members of the funk collective Lettuce are grooving their way into a busy fall, with their new album "Elevate" out now and a North American tour stretching through December. To celebrate, the band ...

Syncopation is a musical term directly associated with rhythm. In short, syncopation is where rhythms tend to fall on and utilise the off-beat, rather than landing on the stronger on-beats. This ...

Guitar skills: With dissonant chords and aggressive rhythm playing, the harder side of blues-rock overlaps into funk. The ‘7#9’ shape (shown here in F#) below is known as the Hendrix chord thanks to ...

Between 1982 and 1984 Piper staged a series of events advertised as Funk Lessons which invited participants to learn about the dance styles culture and history of funk music As documented in a video ...

Michael Jackson was renowned for employing some of the best guitarists of their day, be it Larry Carlton, Steve Stevens, Eddie Van Halen or Orianthi. One player who made an indelible mark on Jackson ...