Funk and Disco Grooves For Bass & Guiitar - Book Review

Bernard Edwards of Chic laid down some essential funk grooves during his time with Chic. Finally someone has had the foresight to transcribe some of his greatest grooves and present them for the bass community. Stuart Clayton has released a book of both Bernard's bass lines AND Nile Rodgers' guitar lines. The book is called Funk & Disco Grooves For Bass & Guitar.

So What's The Book About?

This book is a collection of transcriptions of both guitar and bass lines to a host of great tunes that were played on by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. The book covers songs from Chic, Sister Sledge & Diana Ross - as well as the song they produced for Carly Simon called Why.

How Is The Book Presented?

Because these songs relied heavily on sections built upon grooves that then repeated, the transcriptions are not always presented as 'whole' songs. Instead you might get say the intro, the verse, the chorus and the bridge.

The transcriptions themselves are published in standard notation with chord symbols and tab.

Best Guitar Practice For How to Hear Intervals

Learning guitar theory is an important step to becoming a great guitar player. One of the beginning musical theory concepts that you will learn in music is called intervals. Intervals, are when you take two notes in either play them together or separately.

Another important step to becoming a great guitar player is to learn how to apply music theory to your six string instrument. This is accomplished by what is called ear training, and is an important step that you should incorporate into your daily practice schedule.

Continuing on with our quest in learning how to hear intervals, let's take a look at the five, final intervals that you will want to learn to recognize.

Minor 6th: Once you get past the beginning intro, the beginning verse of the song known as "The Entertainer" is a great way to recognize a minor 6th.