Steve
Allsworth

Ready to get funked up?

100 Essential Funk Grooves for Guitar teaches you to play in the style of the Funk legends… from Jimmy Nolen (James Brown) to Nile Rodgers through to Cory Wong and Mark Lettieri. But don’t mistake this book for a collection of simple player pastiches, it’s way more than that! It’s a deep dive into each player’s approach, ideas and techniques.

A Journey Through the Timeline of Funk Guitar

Learning how the great Funk players built their parts will quickly improve your rhythm guitar palette and help you compose your own cutting-edge parts.

You’ll nail the grooves of:

• James Brown-era Funk – Jimmy Nolen, Catfish Collins, Cheese Martin
• Swamp Funk – the New Orleans connection of Leo Nocentelli
• 1970s RnB Funk – Leroy Bonner, Tony Maiden, Steve Cropper, Hamish Stuart/Onnie McIntyre, Bruce Conte
• Funk Soul – Curtis Mayfield/Skip Pitts, Sly/Freddie Stone, Wah Wah Watson, Ernie Isley
• Disco Funk – Nile Rodgers, Claydes Charles Smith, Al MacKay
• Funk Rock – P-Funk, John Frusciante, Nuno Bettencourt
• Pop Funk – David Williams, Paul Jackson Jnr., Prince
• Modern Funk – Adam Smirnoff/Eric Krasno, Mark Lettieri, Cory Wong