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    The document discusses a funk track, noting that the guitar plays syncopated and non-syncopated rhythms, the harmony is static and can create a hypnotic effect. It also analyzes elements of the drums, bass, and overall urban funk style of the track.

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    Urban Funk

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    The document discusses a funk track, noting that the guitar plays syncopated and non-syncopated rhythms, the harmony is static and can create a hypnotic effect. It also analyzes elements of the drums, bass, and overall urban funk style of the track.

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    The document discusses a funk track, noting that the guitar plays syncopated and non-syncopated rhythms, the harmony is static and can create a hypnotic effect. It also analyzes elements of the drums, bass, and overall urban funk style of the track.

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    Urban Funk

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    maria ballesteros
    The document discusses a funk track, noting that the guitar plays syncopated and non-syncopated rhythms, the harmony is static and can create a hypnotic effect. It also analyzes elements of the drums, bass, and overall urban funk style of the track.

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    • The guitar acts as a balance to the groove by playing a combination of syncopated and
    non-syncopated rhythms. The 13-to-5 top-note voicings in the guitar are typical of James
    Brown’s ’70s style.
    • The static harmony, also typical of Brown’s grooves in the ’70s, can create a hypnotic,
    trance-like effect.

    track 8
    Seventies Urban Funk
    q = 104
    B b� > . 2
    4 ∑ Ó ‰ ÛÛ ÛÛ‰
    Guitar 1 &4 «
    F
    B b� 2
    4 bœ œ œ œ bœ Œ ‰ bœ bœ Ó
    &4 #œ œ œ «
    bœ # œ œ bœ
    Guitar 2

    F B b�
    2
    4 Œ Œ ‰ b œœ b œœ Ó
    & 4 ˙˙ .. «
    b˙ . œ œ
    F
    bœ 2
    ‰ bœ Ó
    E. Piano

    ? 44 . Œ Œ «
    b˙

    B b� ^ > 2
    ? 44 - b œ œ œ œ b œ Œ
    ^
    ‰ b œ b >œ ‰ . J>œ œ œ
    Bass bœ bœ nœ b œ  «
    F
    +  +  +
    4                
    / 4  ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’
    ‰  Œ    ‰  Œ 
    Drums

    F 1 2 3 4

    Notes on Seventies Urban Funk (Track 8):


    • Urban funk has a harder feel than the James Brown-style funk, using distorted guitars
    more typical of rock. In addition, the band plays with more of an edge.
    • The swing is missing from the sixteenth-notes and the groove in general is less
    syncopated.
    • The eighth-notes in the high hat and the 2 and 4 backbeat in the snare give the drums
    more of a rock feel.
    • The rhythmic layers are tighter and the band connects in more ways. The two-measure
    phrase helps keep the groove interesting and the snare alone on 2 of the second measure
    helps add to the edge.

    2 • funk

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