Joe Corn Mo Member since Aug 29th 2010 15139 posts
Thu Jun-19-14 07:01 PM
64. "but look at nile roger's guitar playing. " In response to In response to 61 Thu Jun-19-14 07:08 PM by Joe Corn Mo
those chord voicings he uses, those are "jazz chords." and switches up the voicing every time he plays the lick, and does it in a way that's very much jazz.
in fact, if you slowed down his rhythm guitar parts, they might BE jazz. (i dunno because i could never play funk guitar, so i couldn't try it. but i am sure somebody in this post could prove it).
so if nile roger's funk playing is any indication, jazz and the funk DO take a lot from each other.
that's what i noticed a lot of my favorite r&b songs have... a certain harmonic complexity that i pretty much only associate with jazz.
i mean, hell-- when jimmy jam and terry lewis' gave janet an updated version of the funk, they had her singing layered background vox with crazy extensions... i think all that came from jazz.
you don't notice it because, it's pop... but i think if you trace it back... it's probably jazz.
EDIT: i know you can't give one genre credit for chords... but that level of harmonic complexity wasn't prevelant in most rock or even most soul. it's all over the place in jazz though.
so i think it's more ths taking the last two chords of a riff. more like an overall approach to harmony.