Re: [Harp-L] the difference between funk and blues

[BiscuitBoy714@xxxxxxx]

I've been watchin' this thread about  the difference between blues and funk 
hoping that somebody would at least talk  about funk music. Yea blues and funk 
are similar, it's mainly pentatonic scales  for note choices, but the beat 
differences are waaaay different sometimes. If  you can't feel the funk you aint 
never gonna play the funk. Sometimes they hang  on the root note for a long 
time. Say that the song is in E (great key for funk)  you got the bass player 
layin' down a funk groove and the drummer is right there  with him, everybody 
else is playing some riff of their own, same key, but  different, repeating this 
riff till it comes to the head, or turn around where  it all comes together. 
Kind of like playing row row row your boat. Everybody is  doing something 
different but it all comes together in the end. I could jam on  funk till my lungs 
burst. I luv dat funk. Just let me in, I'll figure out  something that fits 
with whatever instrument is sitting there. Cow bell,  timbale's, sax, harp, 
bass, whatever.
 
       With the blues, if you know the rules,  you know the changes, know 
when the head is gonna be there, know that if the  song is in E, there is gonna 
be an A and a B in there somewhere most of the  time, depending on the song. It 
stays the same. There is a lot of room for  improv within the patterns. You 
just gotta play long enough to learn the rules  and all the different styles, 
then you got it. I love the blues too.
Wrote a song about it.............like ta hear it .......here it  
goes..................My wife she done shot me.........and the damned ole cops  they got 
me..........but they can't beat the blues from this boy... Oh  no..'cause I 
love the blues..........I love 'em like my Grand Daddy's sax....  god I love it 
when you scratch my back ah ah...........and the blues they  roll us all over 
the flo.......yea yea...... 'cause I love the  blues........Not in that order 
but you get my drift dont che?? :-)) It's in G by  the way, but I've been 
thinkin' of changing it to C
 
                Peace Love and Originals 
                      Randy
                   BiscuitBoy Blues
 
         PS I just found out last  night that a very good friend of mine 
relapsed and OD'ed ,so I aint right  tonight, forgive me for my ramblings
 
In a message dated 8/27/2008 9:59:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Philharpn@xxxxxxx writes:

Much of  what is today considered hard-core blues: Muddy, Little Walter, Slim 
Harpo  and others was nothing but rock 'n' roll back in the 50s and 60s --  
because just about everything with a guitar and a beat was considered rock  
'n' 
roll.

We listeners didn't know the difference and the DJs  certainly didn't.

Even country type stuff was considered rock;  otherwise it would have never 
been played on Detroit AM radio back in the  day.

If nobody has clarified yet; Funk is just a subgenre of blues. You  could 
play 
a blues with a polka beat or a cha cha beat; it would still be  a blues. 
Witness Rhumba blues.
Phil


 



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