Guitar skills: With dissonant chords and aggressive rhythm playing, the harder side of blues-rock overlaps into funk. The ‘7#9’ shape (shown here in F#) below is known as the Hendrix chord thanks to ...

Funk music started to emerge ... than the melody, chord progressions or arrangements often found in genres reliant on guitar, piano and vocals. While the set-up of drums, guitar, bass, keys ...

Here’s how it works. From a music theory perspective, jazz, gospel and funk are probably the most technically advanced genres, with exotic chord names like ‘minor seven flat five’ and ‘augmented seven ...