LearnJazzPiano.com archives: Funk Groove

elwapo -- 12/14/2006, 00:53:05 -- #31698

Check out this guy's groove! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW-UrWc_s4o

jmderay -- 12/14/2006, 00:56:39 -- #31698

The youtube room has been transfered, Yellow card to come for you, I guess ..:)

elwapo -- 12/14/2006, 03:18:17 -- #31698

Cool bananas

jaledin -- 12/14/2006, 13:51:16 -- #31698

It's OK playing -- for some reason I don't think funk, though.  Smooth jazz/contemporary adult groove, that kind of thing.  (And I don't mean that in a bad way at all). Thanks for the link -- I love checking out what kids are playing these days.

james3 -- 12/14/2006, 14:45:38 -- #31698

I like his ideas but his groove seems a little off and time a bit weird.

elwapo -- 12/15/2006, 00:49:07 -- #31698

He seems to be forcing it a bit too much in places I know but I like that style he is playing. Hi Jaledin, merry christmas (and james3 / jmderay as well)! would you know of any recordings / artists into that contemporary adult groove style? Much appreciated

jaledin -- 12/15/2006, 16:58:51 -- #31698

The one guy that immediately came to mind was Grusin -- similar feel, kind of ahead of the beat a little bit.  Maybe George Winston or that really, really famous guy (monster on the keys) whose name I'm blanking out on right now who wrote "Dr. James" and a bunch of other stuff.  I don't necessarily think of some of the other real heavyweights in that genre, like Bob James, Joe Sample, George Duke, Patrice Rushen, for some reason -- they seem to have something a little different going on, rhythmically (but they're all different). I'd like to hear some more opinions on this one, since I really don't have much to go on here.

Mike -- 12/17/2006, 01:48:17 -- #31698

to me he almost found the groove.  i think the groove he found is a maybe a bit beyond his abiliy.  Maybe a couple of more years working with a metronome with simpler grooves and that might be in his reach.

jaledin -- 12/17/2006, 10:27:09 -- #31698

Yeah, Mike, but the guy can clearly play.  If he has that ability at -- what is he, 16? 17? -- he has the potential to go places.  He could certainly hang in some R&B band as a full-time professional musician -- where the real money is, thanks eternal to the baby boomer generations who want to hear that kind of stuff.   There are some clinics on video of Richard Tee illustrating how to get the groove/melodic and motivic development that would put any pianist I know or have heard to shame -- it's just plain tough to start a little "contemporary" groove on a solo acoustic piano.

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