LESSON NINE

Lesson 2/43 | Study Time: 5 Min

Course: Funk and R&B Guitar Technique

Now let’s put these tritones to good use. Here are some of the ways tritones are commonly used in Funk.

As well as playing both notes of a tritone together, it is also an effective technique to use the notes as "target notes" in a riff. Here are a couple of examples.

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1- Major Chords 2- INTRODUCTION 3- LESSON FIFTEEN 4- LESSON SIXTEEN 5- New Sounds 6- LESSON EIGHTEEN 7- LESSON NINETEEN 8- 6ths 9- 3rds 10- Major Scales 11- Minor Chords 12- LESSON TWENTY FOUR 13- LESSON TWENTY FIVE 14- 4ths 15- Triplets 16- Chord Embellishment 17- More on 9th Chords 18- Swamp Sounds 19- A Final Solo 20- GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL TERMS 21- D Form 22- Percussive Strumming 23- LESSON TWO 24- LESSON THREE 25- The Rake 26- The Mixolydian Scale 27- D Form 28- LESSON SEVEN 29- Tritones 30- LESSON NINE 31- A New Solo 32- The Dorian Scale 33- LESSON THIRTEEN 34- Section 2 Summary 35- Octaves 36- 7sus Chords 37- The Trill 38- Tuning Your Guitar 39- Common Picking and Strumming Directions 40- Chord Diagrams 41- Fretboard Diagrams 42- Tablature 43- Tablature Symbols

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