justgimmethefunk

@@Rockinbiscuit WOW!! I'm....speechless

What about the cat ??  :D

Sounds good. Personnally I wouldn't vote for the RHCP for the same reason as you. Jamiroquai is an interesting case; the two first albums were clearly acid-jazz, then they took a turn towards funk-fueled pop, yet the 'pop' aspect stands out more than the funk one does, to my ears anyway. I don't consider them a true funk band (but I would more easily consider the Brand New Heavies as such).

Michael Jackson is another example : I included the tracks from 'Off The Wall' in the list but I intentionnally left out his later albums, including Thriller. I wasn't sure what to do with this one, but eventually I didn't include because it simply doesn't sound like a soul/funk album to me.

J-Funk: Perhaps you should have named it the Classic Soul/Funk Appreciation Society. I have assumed that is what you meant, which is why I didn't list all the 80s and beyond soul, funk, R&B, and... uh, hip-hop CDLCs I have downloaded. I suppose Jamiroquai and Bruno Mars qualify now. Oh, and at least one of the songs (or is it the other?) by the dude on the left playing a Strat.

Well that's the thing...if the year of release is no longer considered then anything goes : some of the Red Hot Chili Peppers could fit in, some Jamiroquai or Prince like you wrote....this would bring up the debate of 'how do we classify music by genre', i.e what makes a song a funk song or a soul song etc...

Debate is good I guess  :)

I personally see no reason why we have to make temporary restrictions in the song list as well. We already put a genre restriction on it and I think that should be good enough. Good soul music should be appreciated even if it's contemporary. With the soul revival at the end of the 90's there's a slow comeback of the genre and really good stuff has been produced in the last few years. Even artists like Amy Winehouse should have a place here (whose "Back In Black" album featured The Dap-Kings, backing band of Sharon Jones). :D

List has been updated  :)

Mwahaha so it wasn't just my pervert self fantasizing on some legendary movie scene  ;)

Sharon Jones is also mentioned, who will get a 6-pack. :D

For just a second I read 'Sharon Stone' instead of 'Sharon Jones' and I thought "what? she did songs? six??"  :lol:

Thanks @@Aludog

These are quite recent tracks so I'm not sure if they should be included in the list...there's some Tower of Power stuff that I didn't include either because it's from the late 80s.

Let me know, good people, how you want it done

RIP Ben E King...

 

You can add these to the list. I also realized that my Dr. John customs are missing from the list, so if you'd be so kind to add them as well, justgimmethefunk. Much obliged. :D

 

All good  :)

Oooooooooooh man, it just keeps gettin' better and better!

And by the way, I wonder what it's like to be in Jerry Barnes' shoes...he's the *new* Chic bass player, and of course people will always compare him to Bernard Edwards...and when you come after such an iconic player, it must be challenging, to say the least, no matter how good you are :

Appreciate Nile Rodgers, my fellow Soul/Funksters!

This guy had such an incredible life...I love that style he has

If you're interested in finding ever more funk/r&b/soul music, you can take a look here: http://www.funkmysoul.gr/

WOW! This one is gonna be my new default homepage !!

And yes, I'm gonna add the Afrobeat CDLCs in the list.

Hey y'all funkateers  B)

I wanted to share some really good stuff with you, it's a 3-disc compilation of old school soul music, most of which was heavily sampled by hip-hop artists in the 90s and 00s so it's a kind of 'go-back-to-the-roots' thing. It's called 'Shaolin Soul' episodes 1, 2 and 3. You will find incredible things from the likes of Al Green, Syl Johnson, Ann Peebles, Teddy Pendergrass, The Jackson 5 etc... nothing but quality here. Here are just a few exemples from episode 2 :

(This one is on my to-do list ;))

Enjoy your week-end :)

For what it's worth...I'll test the bass path for you :D

Did you include only GnR solos or some other stuff like the Lenny Kravitz songs he played on?

I have a book with James Brown tabs and notation if anyone of you charters are interested.... 

Is your book called 'The Great James Brown Rhythm Sections Funk Masters' ? Cause I have that one

If it's another one, then please shoot me a PM !

@ thanks for pointing out the missing songs, although I can't find 'Superstition' anywhere

I've been planning to do "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" to get some slap practice. Easy transcription, so I should be able to do it soon. :D

I know someone will be more than happy when you do it, and by someone I mean @ ;)

So I noticed that there aren't any 'Sly & The Family Stone' CDLCs in the database (yet ;)) and while looking for good tabs I stumbled upon this on Amazon and other book stores :

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61IZ08ICXHL.jpg

I think I'll indulge myself :)

I just know one site which isn't on your list (http://freebasspart.pv24.pagesperso-orange.fr/Bass_Players.htm; you'll probably love me for this B) )

Oh yeah that one...I have it in my 'transcriptions sites' folder but it's not really the "best-looking" site (I find it very poorly structured) I never paid much attention to it...guess I'll have to take a serious look.

So let's start with the sharing, shall we? :)

Here's a short selection of my favorite bass transcriptions websites, from which I took most of the tabs that I used to create my CDLCs in this list (these sites are very 60s- and 70s-oriented) :

http://www.basslessons.be/transcriptions.php : quite an impressive collection (almost 150 songs) and they tend to tab a lot of old school stuff

http://www.thebassment.info/transcriptions.html : very nice as well, covers all sorts and all generations of music

http://www.cocosbassment.com/transcriptions/ : a bit similar to the previous one in terms of songs' choice

http://nicebasslines.com/bass-transcriptions : lots of cool stuff too in here, although the site has not been updated for quite a while

http://www.redtenbachersfunkestra.com/basscharts/ : excellent songs' choice, but you'll only find notations here, no tabs

http://www.lessonsthatrock.com/resources/free-bass-tabs/ : I found this one recently, they seem to have A LOT of songs with the matching guitar tabs as well

All these sites are free, yet they seem to offer more interesting material than monetized sites like MySongBook...

What are your favorite sites?

There's some stuff in here that goes more in the direction of jazz/fusion which might not totally fit the bill but I'm not a genre nazi and I actually like that it's included here as well.

Yes I know, you're probably talking about the Jaco Pastorius, Weather Report etc...I even included some disco like The Bee Gees or Patrice Rushen...and I'm not entirely sure that Queen belongs here either but I figured what the hell :D Good bass lines in the end...

Two new additions to the list :

Bernadette by the Four Tops

It's A Shame by The Spinners

I played version 1.7 on bass, the scroll speed is much better now and the tone's volume is also much more enjoyable. However I found the tone to be too agressive this time, too distorted. I think you could use the bass tone from U2's "Where The Streets Have No Name", it has a good rock feel but not too distorted.