[Harp-L] too many notes and funky



You're worried you are over playing and you want to be funky. How do you know what notes to leave out?

Get out the metronome. It helps if your metronome lets you know where the 1 is. You can't be funky if you're putting a 3 in it.

Practice your regular riffs to the metronome (set it to eighth notes). Pick a beat and leave it out. Pick two notes--try the 2 and. Try leaving two notes out every other measure. Pick two notes to play louder. Pick four. Play eighth notes, quarter notes and whole notes and mix it up--eighth notes on the one, quarter notes on the one, etc. The music magically becomes funky.

It's a game--make up your own rules. You can play all your old riffs just play with the beat.If you're playing along with a CD, try only playing when the bass plays, when the keyboard plays, when the guitar plays etc.


When you get bored with that, play all your blues and rock riffs in waltz time. Smoke Stack Lightning takes on a really jazz feel. It's fun.


Rainbow Jimmy
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