New Funk iPod Video Packages
With each package you will receive 12 downloadable video loops which can be played on your computer or copied to your iPod, PLUS pdf files of the transcriptions of each beat.
No fancy solos, just funk grooves, some old-school, some new-school.
Laid out progessively for intermediate-advanced drummers.
All at least one minute long so there’s plenty of time to focus in on the elements of the groove. Some played both slow and fast.
Package #1 - Funk Basics
12 video loops
1 - 8th Note Hi-Hat openings, and syncopated Bass Drum patterns, key elements in Funk.
2 - Ghost Notes. The percolating glue of Funk.The groove-within-a-groove.
FB-001 | $4.99
Package #2 - Funky Bass Drum & Displaced Back Beats
12 video loops
1 - 16th Note Bass Drum patterns. This is essential. The 16th note Bass Drum patterns have to be solid.
2 - Displaced Back Beats. Add some surprise and syncopation to the groove. You don’t always have to play the backbeat.
FB-002 | $4.99
Package #3 - New Hi-Hat Patterns & Linear Style
12 video loops
1 - Broken Hi-Hat patterns. Funky short and long Hi-Hat openings.
2 - Paradiddle possibilities and linear style - get some use out of those rudiments in funk.
FB-003 | $4.99
Package #4 - Putting It All Together
12 video loops
1 - More Ghost Notes, with 16ths on the Bass Drum.
2 - Swing Feel
3 - Latin Funk
4 - 1/4 Note Hi-Hat Accents, Fill-in Technique
FB-004 | $4.99
Package #5 - Advanced Funk Grooves
12 video loops
1 - Triplet grooves and funk shuffles.
2 - Mostly advanced funk grooves.
3 - Playing over the "1".
FB-005 | $4.99
New Funk Packages
Packages 6, 7 & 8 focus on two of my favorite subjects, the blues and the shuffle. Everything starts here. If you’re gonna play funk you’ve gotta learn what happened before – blues and the shuffle. There are videos of the basics of each style followed by more advanced concepts and funkier variations.
Also each package contains pdf files of the transcriptions of each beat.
Packages 7 & 8 also feature videos of the author demonstrating these techniques by playing along to the music of some classic shuffles and half-time shuffles.
Package #6 - Advanced Blues
16 video loops
1 - The basics. Layin’ it down
2 - Adding snare drum ghost notes, scooting the rhythm
3 - Changing the right hand pattern
4 - 6 against 4, now it gets interesting
5 - double-time Jazz feel with 6 against 4
6 - two videos showing the application of these rhythms to the 12 bar blues form
FB-006 | $4.99
Package #7 - Advanced Shuffle
14 video loops
All loops use the 12 bar blues form
1 - The basics, four on the floor and kickin' it
2 - The double shuffle
3 - The Texas shuffle
4 - The flat tire shuffle
5 - Quarter note ride and adding the buzz
6 - Video of author playing along to Hide Away, Freddie King
7 - Video of author playing along to COD, Albert King
8 - Video of author playing along to All About My Girl, Jimmy McGriff
FB-007 | $4.99
Package #8 - Half Time Shuffle, The Purdie Shuffle
5 video loops
1 - The basics, 16th note triplets
2 - Adding some funky bass drum
3 - The Purdie Shuffle. Video of author playing along to Home At Last, Steely Dan, Bernard Purdie, drs.
4 - Video of author playing along to Big Legged Woman, Israel Tolbert
FB-008 | $4.99
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"This new project of the celebrated funk guru Jim Payne has the immediacy of an extended private session. The transcriptions offer the nuts and bolts of these beats, while the videotaped setting is intimate and, in a word, funky."
~ Peter Erskine
"Great project. Lots of fun. Challenging grooves."
~ Stanton Moore
"… some very groovy beats that will expand anyone's funk vocabulary. Jim Payne has created a modern package that will continue to spread his message on the funk."
~ Steve Smith
“Well-thought-out… refreshingly exciting, innovative, and most of all, loads of fun! I highly recommend it!"
~ Zoro
"With his considerable hands-on experience playing with some of the legends and innovators, Jim is a true authority on the subject of funk."
~ Bill Stewart |
