Curriculum · Funk

Genre Path

Funk — The pocket is everything

Where 16ths, ghost notes, and time-feel become musical content in their own right. The genre where 'how' matters as much as 'what'.

Level 1

Ghost Notes & The Pocket ready Sixteenth-Note Feel ready Pocket Drumming ready Clyde Stubblefield (JB) ready The Meters — First Steps ready

Level 2

James Brown Vocabulary ready Linear Funk ready Zigaboo & The Meters ready Bernard Purdie — Intro ready Moving Ghost Notes ready

Level 3

New Orleans Second-Line ready Beat Displacement ready The Purdie Shuffle ready David Garibaldi (Tower) ready Sparse Quarter-Note Funk ready

Level 4

D'Angelo Time-Feel ready Modern Neo-Soul ready Questlove Time-Feel ready Vinnie's Funk Drumming ready Modern R&B Production ready