For info on affordable, quality private guitar lessons via Skype visit www.tastyguitar.com/skype-lessons Get an amazing collection of R&B, Soul and Funk Fills and Grooves w/video & tracks www.tastyguitar.com/books For free downloadable TAB on this lesson and dozens more visit www.tastyguitar.com/free-lessons
I love your guitar playing. Your teaching is very good and helpful.. however... because of me having to fix my hum problems.. please... there are options. That hum in your video's doesn't have to be there.
I am baffled that this channel does not have hundreds of thousands of subs or more. Wake up people! These videos are amongst the best lesson vids available. They have really impacted my playing lately, thanks!
Thanks so much for your RUclips channel! At the University of North Texas, all instruction was focused on jazz and classical for your instrument, with mine being the guitar (1978-1982). We had to figure out all the other styles on our own. It wasn’t like the Berklee College of Music which taught all contemporary styles, but you could earn a Bachelor of Music at UNT, then get a music teaching credential, which I got. I went on to teach high school band and orchestra. One of the top ten favorite funk/jazz albums for jazz students in the 80’s was by the Brecker Brothers - Heavy Metal Be-bop. The chart Some Skunk Funk was the most insanely cool tune that we all tried to learn. Earth, Wind and Fire and Tower of Power were big, especially for horn players, bands where I picked up a few funk licks. All Alto Sax players tried to emulate David Sanborn, who pretty much standardized the way to play funk on that instrument. A long ramble, but I just want to say to your viewers, as someone who has studied with some of the best guitar players, you can get high quality instruction right here. You must have had some very good teachers. It all sounds right. Thank you.
I really appreciate your comments, especially since you know music and are a teacher yourself. I'm actually self taught for the most part, a couple lessons along the way but mostly just been gigging forever. Anyways, thanks for watching and I'll try to keep the good stuff coming.
Pat Martino used lick #5 when I saw him. He stayed on it to build tension over a whole chorus or two and then moved on in the next chorus. It got a strong reaction from the audience, in spite of it being about the easiest thing he played.
You are probably the best guitar teach on RUclips for R&B and Soul music. But when you do the double stops and such I wish you show the notes and hand positions that you play. I really love how you slow the licks down though.
Huge fan of your channel! Grant is such an overlooked player in many ways- it's great to see someone sharing and teaching the funky goodness of his playing.
I’m literally just staring jazz funk guitar, I didn’t know where to start, I have to say this video is a huge help for me to start somewhere ! Thanks a lot !
@@TastyGuitarcom And I just bought your filthy funk and blues licks bundle based off the promo video. There's nothing more convincing motivator than to gaze introspectively and realise ones un-funkiness. But....the fact it was cheaper than the bathtub turd fishing kit is what clinched the deal. 😁😁😁
hey rick.. nice stuff as usual..I'm a guitar teacher, so I think I'm little more aware of how hard you work..to make these lessons ..I hope your making good money at this , you certainly deserve it..thanks
Thanks man, I appreciate that. The ad revenue on youtube vids pay next to nothing unless you are getting a lot of views...it works out to about $1.50 for 1000 views. But it does drive some traffic to my website and provide a steady stream of students and some ebook sales. So I'm making a modest living off of it. I usually gig alot here in Las Vegas too but with current situation all gigs have been cancelled. So I'm pretty fortunate in that I can keep paying the bills with the online teaching cause all my fellow musicians here in town are really screwed, that sucks.
Great stuff. I was trying to read the notation and I was spinning my wheels a little bit because the notes were not adding up. On examples #1 and #2 the note on the second beat should be a DOTTED EIGHTH note paired with a sixteenth note. Super articulate phrasing here. This is a really good exercise for picking and fretting.
you're correct that it is not correct, but it should be a 16th rest on right on beat 2, then an 8th followed by a 16th, I also would have done beat 1 differently, this was one of my first videos years ago and was a guitar pro newbie lol
Your guitar sounds great,I've never come across this before but I have now,these ideas of yours have elevated my blues licks in a day.Thanks for a great lesson I can see by the comments it's been here for a while but I'm glad I'm on board now
VERY NICE PLAYING! THANKS! Rare to hear this style these days. Difficult to emulate. Maybe a slower version as well would be easier? And some backing right here, or one found for free on RUclips...
Thanks James, it takes time and effort to do those but if it helps people learn I'm cool with it, btw you can download the tabs at www.tastyguitar.com/free-lessons
Fantastic lesson...could you give me the backing track used for this lesson ???? or where can I can find it ????? ...it's amazing...THANK YOU SO MUCH From France
excellent, efficient and tasteful licks in an important style ...like many of your lessons...please keep it up...do you have a website where there is more of this stuff?
I just happened to find your site and I'm truly amazed. So many useful things to learn and also use to build chops. Thank you so much for sharing your gift. may it return to you 1000 fold. PS...considering some skype time....I hope you don't charge by the question.
Hey Rick, thanks so much for your great lessons and your great books! Maybe could you make a video on how to play funky lines like cory wong in the video of pleasin recorded at reverb (stuff around sec. 30) . Thanks so much again! Great pleasure to watch your vids. Cheers from Germany, Martin
For info on affordable, quality private guitar lessons via Skype visit www.tastyguitar.com/skype-lessons
Get an amazing collection of R&B, Soul and Funk Fills and Grooves w/video & tracks www.tastyguitar.com/books
For free downloadable TAB on this lesson and dozens more visit www.tastyguitar.com/free-lessons
Will do, very keen to learn more on this!
I love your guitar playing. Your teaching is very good and helpful.. however... because of me having to fix my hum problems.. please... there are options. That hum in your video's doesn't have to be there.
Great job. You’ve got some pretty tasty licks going on. 😷🤘
1:12 - Lick #1
2:18 - Lick #2
3:39 - Lick #3
4:55 - Lick #4
6:04 - Lick #5
6:53 - Lick #6
8:03 - Lick #7
(Feel free to put this in the description or whatever. Great video dude!)
I am baffled that this channel does not have hundreds of thousands of subs or more. Wake up people! These videos are amongst the best lesson vids available. They have really impacted my playing lately, thanks!
Thank you Steven, glad you are learning from my vids
Best funk guitar teacher on youtube for sure! Keep at it man, extremely grateful for this lessons!
Franco Ignacio Durante - wurd!
That’s Funked Up
@@DWinegarden2 wurd turd word
Amazing! So simple but I've always said that tone is in the hands and you are proving it. This is a phrasing lesson.
Great stuff for jam sessions and gigs. Thank you so much.
awesome lesson ......fantastic teacher .Straight to the point...no bullshit...you are a champ...keep it up mate
By far the best guitar videos are the ones with tabs in it
D@TRIO I agree, thanks for watching
Lick #1 - 1:13
Lick #2 - 2:21
An octave lower - 2:33
Lick #3 - 3:39
Lick #4 - 4:55
Lick #5 - 6:06
Lick #6 - 6:54
Lick #7 - 8:04
Thanks!
@@TastyGuitarcom Thank you, man.
Thanks so much for your RUclips channel! At the University of North Texas, all instruction was focused on jazz and classical for your instrument, with mine being the guitar (1978-1982). We had to figure out all the other styles on our own. It wasn’t like the Berklee College of Music which taught all contemporary styles, but you could earn a Bachelor of Music at UNT, then get a music teaching credential, which I got. I went on to teach high school band and orchestra.
One of the top ten favorite funk/jazz albums for jazz students in the 80’s was by the Brecker Brothers - Heavy Metal Be-bop. The chart Some Skunk Funk was the most insanely cool tune that we all tried to learn. Earth, Wind and Fire and Tower of Power were big, especially for horn players, bands where I picked up a few funk licks. All Alto Sax players tried to emulate David Sanborn, who pretty much standardized the way to play funk on that instrument.
A long ramble, but I just want to say to your viewers, as someone who has studied with some of the best guitar players, you can get high quality instruction right here. You must have had some very good teachers. It all sounds right. Thank you.
I really appreciate your comments, especially since you know music and are a teacher yourself. I'm actually self taught for the most part, a couple lessons along the way but mostly just been gigging forever. Anyways, thanks for watching and I'll try to keep the good stuff coming.
You're an amazing player with such great feel for phrasing and melody. Thanks for the lessons.
You said it...... Its all about phrasing and timing !!! Love it !!!/great lesson.
Yes man my new favorite teacher!!
Just found this video, great phrasing here! Love the turnaround lick at 5:17 where you touch on that major blues sound for a second.
Pat Martino used lick #5 when I saw him. He stayed on it to build tension over a whole chorus or two and then moved on in the next chorus. It got a strong reaction from the audience, in spite of it being about the easiest thing he played.
haha sometimes the easiest stuff IS what gets the audience reaction
So great! Every lesson is a revelation and your tone is killer. This one reminds me of the late great Freddie Robinson!
This is basically how to play like Grant Green, and I LOVE IT! All your videos so far are excellent. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this. Really clear, well presented tips on this channel.
Génial cours ,bon groove funky
You are probably the best guitar teach on RUclips for R&B and Soul music. But when you do the double stops and such I wish you show the notes and hand positions that you play. I really love how you slow the licks down though.
Very nice buddy .Gonna use it for my Sax phrasing
Just subscribed to your channel. Love your stuff...keep it funky!
Nasty, funky licks indeed! Thank you for sharing!
Listened to your album loved your music choice and playing especially the bensonesque licks
Honestly speaking you're one of the best guitarist. I've had so many but you're unique and very talented Sir.
You are too kind, thank you
you're awesome bro! outstanding teacher as well, thanks for sharing your talent!
You are really a great guitarist and teacher. I wish I knew the chords or had the backing track to this.
Really nice licks! Thanks for posting.
Really dig those funk licks!!
Thank you!
Huge fan of your channel! Grant is such an overlooked player in many ways- it's great to see someone sharing and teaching the funky goodness of his playing.
great vid. Thx so much for sharing this stuff.
Oh yeah.. funky! Thanks.
Excellent lesson and great book. I recommend it to all.
Kevin Smith thanks Kevin, glad you are enjoying the ebook!
Fkin awesome.. cant wait to rap my head and fingers around this little lot.. this one vid gonna keep me going for god knows how long.. cheers..
Great stuff! Clear and concise teaching style and very well made videos.
I’m literally just staring jazz funk guitar, I didn’t know where to start, I have to say this video is a huge help for me to start somewhere ! Thanks a lot !
Glad you found it!
These are the kind of licks I was searching for, thank you my brother!
Thank you for watching!
Super useful. Thanks
Awesome playing, you're an amazing guitarist, thank you for putting up these lessons.
Thank you for watching!
Fantastic tone. I could listen to you playing these examples all day..... everyday.
Thank you!
@@TastyGuitarcom And I just bought your filthy funk and blues licks bundle based off the promo video. There's nothing more convincing motivator than to gaze introspectively and realise ones un-funkiness. But....the fact it was cheaper than the bathtub turd fishing kit is what clinched the deal. 😁😁😁
Haha I knew that would convince somebody
Man you really create a FUN video of Great Guitar licks.....keep it going brother!
Great lesson; tabs; slowing in down; 2 thumbs up!
Thank you!
Great lesson! Thanks!
Thank you so much! Great lesson! Vive le Funk et le Groove!
Thank you Pierre!
Gosh DARN! Those are some tasty licks! I'm salivating.
hey rick.. nice stuff as usual..I'm a guitar teacher, so I think I'm little more aware of how hard you work..to make these lessons ..I hope your making good money at this , you certainly deserve it..thanks
Thanks man, I appreciate that. The ad revenue on youtube vids pay next to nothing unless you are getting a lot of views...it works out to about $1.50 for 1000 views. But it does drive some traffic to my website and provide a steady stream of students and some ebook sales. So I'm making a modest living off of it. I usually gig alot here in Las Vegas too but with current situation all gigs have been cancelled. So I'm pretty fortunate in that I can keep paying the bills with the online teaching cause all my fellow musicians here in town are really screwed, that sucks.
No doubt the best guitar teacher on youtube. Mahalo Rick or the tasty, accessible and very applicable licks!
+Ric Valdez thank you very much Ric!
These are awesome! Thank you!
Great stuff Rick!
thank you Brian!
Ohhhhh, the band I could have with you as my guitar player!
Great stuff. I was trying to read the notation and I was spinning my wheels a little bit because the notes were not adding up. On examples #1 and #2 the note on the second beat should be a DOTTED EIGHTH note paired with a sixteenth note. Super articulate phrasing here. This is a really good exercise for picking and fretting.
you're correct that it is not correct, but it should be a 16th rest on right on beat 2, then an 8th followed by a 16th, I also would have done beat 1 differently, this was one of my first videos years ago and was a guitar pro newbie lol
Awesome - thanks for this!!
Your guitar sounds great,I've never come across this before but I have now,these ideas of yours have elevated my blues licks in a day.Thanks for a great lesson I can see by the comments it's been here for a while but I'm glad I'm on board now
awesome....was searching for something like this
right on, glad you found it!
Thank you. This is an immense help to my tone and phrasing.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you guy ,you are the Best funk guitar teacher :)
Thanks so much for these lessons! So cool 😎👌
Right on, thank you for watching!
VERY NICE PLAYING! THANKS! Rare to hear this style these days. Difficult to emulate. Maybe a slower version as well would be easier? And some backing right here, or one found for free on RUclips...
Rhythm is the spirit of music!
Thanks for this totally got me playing funky.
Thanks for watching!
Very good demonstrations. Thanks. Subscribed.
This licks are amazing! you've got the real groove going man!!
Thank you!
I like the notes ,makes it a lot easier even though Im not a great reader ,I don t see a lot of it on you tube lessons
Thanks James, it takes time and effort to do those but if it helps people learn I'm cool with it, btw you can download the tabs at www.tastyguitar.com/free-lessons
I like those licks too.
very good!!
Great fun!! 😯
Glad you dig it!
hey rick nice job, great stuff
Wow, great licks! I just discovered your channel, amazing stuff!
Thank you Stephen, and welcome to the channel!
Say hi to Grant Green for me, man. Because you’re obviously in close touch with him. This stuff is so giant, Rick. Keep up the good work.
haha thank you Matthew
Very goog! Thanks a lot!
Very nice.
Amazing lesson!!, You are great!!, Thx a lot
+Pirata Cabron thank you!
Fantastic lesson...could you give me the backing track used for this lesson ???? or where can I can find it ????? ...it's amazing...THANK YOU SO MUCH From France
Amazing Dude!!!!!
Thanks!
Love this!
So so good, thanks Rick!
Thanks for watching!
good stuff !!
perfecto, copie las rítmicas en papel y las aplico en algunas frases
Bless your soul
thank you tast
great videos bro!
Just subscribed...you are awesome 👏
right on, welcome to the channel!
Awesome 😎👍
excellent, efficient and tasteful licks in an important style ...like many of your lessons...please keep it up...do you have a website where there is more of this stuff?
thank you James, yes you can visit www.tastyguitar.com , same videos but you can download the tab files there, read my blog and download a free CD
This is sick cheers
Incredible stuff. Martinoesqe.
Awesome! Wish to have some classes with you. All the best from Brazil.
Obrigado Jurian, please feel free to contact me at tastyguitarlessons@gmail.com if you would like to inquire about Skype lessons
I just happened to find your site and I'm truly amazed. So many useful things to learn and also use to build chops.
Thank you so much for sharing your gift. may it return to you 1000 fold.
PS...considering some skype time....I hope you don't charge by the question.
+Sid Simo thanks Sid, lol glad you enjoy the channel and my rates are very reasonable :)
Phenomenal lesson and licks! I’m a Massive Mel Brown fan and this reminds me of some of his earlier music. Thank you so much for your time and effort!
Fantastic playing mate, great lesson
Great video! sounds alot like Melvin Sparks
Merci beaucoup !
Hey Rick, thanks so much for your great lessons and your great books! Maybe could you make a video on how to play funky lines like cory wong in the video of pleasin recorded at reverb (stuff around sec. 30) .
Thanks so much again! Great pleasure to watch your vids.
Cheers from Germany, Martin
"TastyGuitar.com" does what it says on the tin. Tasty licks dude
Damn! These are great!
awesome,thanks!!
All good.
That backing track is super tasty! Where did you get that?
I believe I bought that online somewhere but can't remember where
Good taste beats shredding fools. Have mercy Miss Percy 🌴
thank you, lovin' this.