"A Basic Funk Formula"
This is a simple concept to explain that will make your playing tighten and your slap game more powerful and will make your audience dance! It will also help you keep everything together and it makes improvising easy if you follow this formula. Its referred to as "finding the 1". The "1" I am referring to is the first beat of the measure. You can attack it with the same note or pattern whatever, as long as the 1 is apparent and defined! Your 1 will have a lot of power to it, and its the main groove you always come back to! Play the "1" and then go about grooving, when the first beat comes back in the next measure, hit the same note or just attack it so that its more defined than any other beat!
An easy way to start is to hit the open E on the "1", then play whatever you want to (make it to scale to keep it challenging and you will get a lot out of this!), and when you get back to the first beat of the next measure, hit the open E again! Thats a nice little drill, and you may even make a song or two..or a hundred that you like! Work with it!
So it will be like:
ONE, play..play..play..ONE..play..play..play..ONE..play..play..play..ONE!
Now get your funk on!,
Mark McAnaney, Solo Bassist
This is a simple concept to explain that will make your playing tighten and your slap game more powerful and will make your audience dance! It will also help you keep everything together and it makes improvising easy if you follow this formula. Its referred to as "finding the 1". The "1" I am referring to is the first beat of the measure. You can attack it with the same note or pattern whatever, as long as the 1 is apparent and defined! Your 1 will have a lot of power to it, and its the main groove you always come back to! Play the "1" and then go about grooving, when the first beat comes back in the next measure, hit the same note or just attack it so that its more defined than any other beat!
An easy way to start is to hit the open E on the "1", then play whatever you want to (make it to scale to keep it challenging and you will get a lot out of this!), and when you get back to the first beat of the next measure, hit the open E again! Thats a nice little drill, and you may even make a song or two..or a hundred that you like! Work with it!
So it will be like:
ONE, play..play..play..ONE..play..play..play..ONE..play..play..play..ONE!
Now get your funk on!,
Mark McAnaney, Solo Bassist
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