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If you can’t play syncopated rhythms, you can’t be a funk guitar player – and improving your groove will help your playing in all styles
Taking small chord shapes, single notes and 16th-note strums, we unpack the essentials for funk guitar and target those offbeats for rhythmic intrigue in your playing