AUTHOR COMMENTS

This book addresses a common problem I have found with guitar students: their ability to groove and to play styles based on a sixteenth note pulse is usually very weak, and their ability to read sixteenth note rhythms is spotty at best. This book takes the chord progressions found in Chord Workbook for Guitar Volume One and presents them in typical funk rhythm patterns. The style I use in this book is slightly different from the classic James Brown Band's kind of funky guitar. The style presented here incorporates playing both the bass and the chord simultanously. Though this is a little harder to coordinate at first, the result is a firm foundation in understanding a chord's relationship to the bass line. It also gives the guitarist a style that can be used in duet situtations where there is no bass player and a funk feel is required. All examples are presented in regular staff notation to prepare the serious guitarist for reading funk rhythms. It is recommended that the student also work through the Rhythms Volume 2 as a companion book to the Comping Styles Volume 2 as this will help to build recognition of sixteenth note rhythms. Audio files found on the muse-eek website can be used to check accuracy.