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The six-ninth chord is used in funk (e.g., F 6/9); it is a major chord with an added sixth and ninth. [18] In funk, minor seventh chords are more common than minor triads because minor triads were found to be too thin-sounding. [22] Some of the best known and most skillful soloists in funk have jazz backgrounds.
Chanking is a guitar performance technique in funk music that involves both "choking" the guitar neck and strumming the strings percussively to create a distinctive-sounding riff commonly associated with the genre. [1] The technique was popularized by the music of James Brown, later spreading to other genres and performers.
John Watson Jr. (February 3, 1935 – May 17, 1996), [3] often known professionally as Johnny "Guitar" Watson, was an American musician.A flamboyant showman and electric guitarist in the style of T-Bone Walker, his recording career spanned 40 years, and encompassed rhythm and blues, funk and soul music.
One Nation Under a Groove is the tenth studio album by American funk rock band Funkadelic, released on September 22, 1978, on Warner Bros. Records.Recording sessions took place at United Sound Studio in Detroit, with one song recorded live on April 15, 1978, at the Monroe Civic Center in Monroe, Louisiana. [10]
Funk utilized the same extended chords found in bebop jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths, or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths. However, unlike bebop jazz, with its complex, rapid-fire chord changes, funk virtually abandoned chord changes, creating static single chord vamps with little harmonic movement, but ...
Brick is an American band that created a successful merger of funk and jazz in the 1970s. Their most popular single was " Dazz ", (#3 U.S. Pop , #1 U.S. R&B , #36 UK Singles Chart [ 1 ] ) which was released in 1976.
George Edward Clinton [6] (born July 22, 1941 [7]) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and bandleader. [8] His Parliament-Funkadelic collective (which primarily recorded under the distinct band names Parliament and Funkadelic) developed an influential and eclectic form of funk music during the 1970s that drew on Afrofuturism, outlandish fashion, psychedelia, and surreal humor. [9]
A "brutally scraped" F 7 ♯ 9 features in the chorus of "Tame" against the three chord rhythm guitar part's D, C, and F chords. [27] Use as a primary or tonic chord in funk and disco of the 1970s includes Heatwave's "Boogie Nights". [10] Stevie Ray Vaughan, a devotee of Hendrix, used the chord extensively.