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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

5 lessons
  1. 01 Ghost Notes & The Pocket 20 min
  2. 02 Sixteenth-Note Feel 20 min
  3. 03 Pocket Drumming 20 min
  4. 04 Clyde Stubblefield (JB) 25 min
  5. 05 The Meters — First Steps 20 min

Level 2

5 lessons
  1. 01 James Brown Vocabulary 30 min
  2. 02 Linear Funk 30 min
  3. 03 Zigaboo & The Meters 30 min
  4. 04 Bernard Purdie — Intro 30 min
  5. 05 Moving Ghost Notes 25 min

Level 3

5 lessons
  1. 01 New Orleans Second-Line 25 min
  2. 02 Beat Displacement 25 min
  3. 03 The Purdie Shuffle 30 min
  4. 04 David Garibaldi (Tower) 25 min
  5. 05 Sparse Quarter-Note Funk 20 min

Level 4

5 lessons
  1. 01 D'Angelo Time-Feel 30 min
  2. 02 Modern Neo-Soul 30 min
  3. 03 Questlove Time-Feel 30 min
  4. 04 Vinnie's Funk Drumming 30 min
  5. 05 Modern R&B Production 30 min