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Stick Stuff 2 – Basic Funk Grooves
Basic Funk Groove 1 Try to tap this drum pattern as a preparation. Stems pointing up are snare drum – tap with the treble hand; stems pointing down are bass drum – tap with the bass hand. This is a basic Funk groove in 4/4 based on a simple I-V cycle and the above rhythmic…
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Stick Lesson 8
I like this tribal bass line. If you can manage the fifths in the bass on the last four beats of each measure sound great if you slide them.
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Stick Lesson 7
This groove is sorta latin in 7/4. You can try the bass part by itself first. For me it only grooves if I hit the off beats with my treble hand – of course you can only hit the strings without sounding the pitches.