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[Mark]

Guys,

I wasn't sure whether to post this stuff here or perhaps in the discussion regarding percussive guitar, but since it stems from my bass background, this seems appropriate.

Many years ago I got involved with funk/slap bass, transcribing a number of players and checking out videos to develop some expertise in the style. I went out and bought a Music Man Sting Ray bass just for this purpose. As I got better at it, the only problem I ran into was that I was also active on acoustic guitar (fingerstyle classical, pop, latin) and plucking bass strings, an essential part of the approach, wreaked havoc on my right-hand. Even 20-30 minutes of aggressive work would shear off my fingernails, so I had no choice but to scale back my efforts.

However, about 10 years ago I started to adapt what I had learned on bass to guitar, and believe it or not the classical nylon-string was perfect due to the snappiness of the bass strings and percussion possibilities. Since then I've arranged a number of original grooves using the translated ideas, and recently have been doing some recording on my Pavan nylon-string.

"Classic Funk" is one such example, a two-chord vamp between Em and A7 using a combination of slapped open strings, left and right-hand mutes, octaves, power chords, upper-string chords, double-stops, trills, slurs, etc, etc. Just about a minute of unadulterated fun(k) on guitar.

Hope you dig it. Btw, my brother Paul was just in town last week and filmed me doing a lesson dissertation on this groove and its various components. Once the video is edited, he'll be uploading it to YouTube. All for now...

- Mark
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"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" - Mingus

[Larry_DC]

Well, that's something we haven't heard before. Sounds like Carulli got hip

[corky4strings]

thats kool. i like it alot
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corky




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