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- Hey, what's up everybody.
My name is Nigel Hall
and welcome to Fender's Technique of the week.
I'm here with my homie Terrence Higgins, Swamp Grease,
from New Orleans, Louisiana.
We're here in the studio right now
and we're talking about today
how to get the funkiest stuff we can
from the simplest stuff we can.
We can always get funky stuff from starting small,
starting as simple as possible.
If you noticed in the first groove that you just saw,
the groove is,
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You know, it's got the hop in there and it's good,
but it all starts from the one,
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You know, and really,
if you really into the one and simple stuff,
you can really just do that all day,
because that just feels great.
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You know what I mean? Just, just, just
spiritually it feels great.
Spiritual. Ya like what I did there. Didn't you?
And then when you add the
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That's just for effect,
but those things come when you start to just groove
and stay simple and you just do things like
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We can even add stuff.
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You know, but don't do,
don't do anything too crazy
because you're not going to find the funk
if you go too left.
You got to start one, two, three, four,
not A, B, X, Y, Z, you know.
Check this next groove out.
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It was funky right?
Bep.
It was funky because we kept it simple.
It all starts from being simple.
Now this next groove that we're about to play
comes from a remix that I did
from my last record, called Spiritual.
The name of the song is called Yesterday.
But we decided to make it a little bit more funky for you.
Cause I got these funky fender bases
that make the funk sounds
that we need in order to do that.
So check this groove out
and then we'll talk about it afterwards.
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All right. Now that was pretty funky,
but this is how I was able to come up
with that pattern on the base.
I started very simple with things like,
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And as I started to play that,
other things just started to come.
You know, you'll hear, you'll hear what's needed.
I always, I'm a firm believer in when you listen,
when you really listen
to the universe and you listen
to things that, the things that you're playing,
as long as you're playing simple,
when you're playing simple, you're not playing everything.
So you're not looking into,
okay, well I've already played that
and that's not cool enough
because you're finding it yourself. So you go
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Add things like that.
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Ya know what I'm saying?
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Adding things like that.
Well, I hope you learned something.
I really do.
I want to give a shout out to Fender.
Thank you for allowing me to come on and do this.
I want to shout out to my man Terrence Higgins,
from New Orleans, Louisiana, Mr. Swamp Grease.
And I want to shout out to all you funksters out there
who want to play simple and funky
and be heard, you know.
It's definitely needed and we need you.
So I hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you soon.