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| | FUNK FINGERS FAQ & FEEDBACK |
 | | I was just reading over the funk fingers invention, as it's a hobby of mine to experiment with my bass in dangerous ways, by hitting them with such objects as drills, bolts, nuts, cups etc. The funk fingers really appealed to me! But just as I opened my wallet... | | | Use the funk fingers to hit the strings in a certain percussive pattern and hammer on and pull off with your fretting hand. | | | For those just trying out Funk Fingers, Here's a couple of 'tips' that may be helpful: 1) take your time getting used to them, I initially had problems in hitting ONLY the string I wanted (esp. the A and D strings!), but with practice, it gets easier (try doing scales slowly). |
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| | Vinyl Vulture - Updated trades - Lib, Vocal, OST, 45 |
| | Another extremely strong release from Johnny, with some killer funk cuts in the form of the Dusty Fingers comped Return to The Ashes, a big drum break on the 70s re-working of the Modesty Blaise theme and so many other great library-style funk tracks. | | | Classic US funk LP, featuring a great version of Schifrins Enter the Dragon and the very funky, psychedelic freak-out that is The Mind Excursion". | | | Great oddball easy-funk form the famous de Wolfe library composer, featuring UK session heavyweights such as Alf Bigden, Alan Parker and Herbie Flowers etc. Standout funky track is Ann Peebles I Cant Stand the Rain, but plenty more great lounge/weird moments to be had. |
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| | Terry Funk |
| | Funk has made Masked Nazi go out cold and lose consciousness before, he has made Sabu go into dream land more than your fingers can count, he has delivered the move to Swamp Fox and put him out. | | | Funk may be old, he may be a drunken wacko, but he is a sweet wrestler. | | | Terry Funk and Raven should be some great legacy matches. |
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| | Pete Miser |
| | As manager and front man of the Fingers, Pete toured the entire U.S. sharing stages with the likes of Maceo Parker, The Roots and Run D.M.C. During this period, 5 Fingers Of Funk released two albums on Ho-Made Media and sold out live venues throughout the region. | | | In 1992 Pete Miser’s audience grew when he assembled 5 Fingers Of Funk, his nine piece live band. | | | Pete Miser’s new full-length album, Camouflage Is Relative reminds us why we used to love hip-hop, and shows us that we can again. |
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| | GolfDigest.com - It's showtime! |
| | Funk bends a bit more from the waist than is typical and uses women's grips to hold the club in his fingers. | | | Funk played more than 30 tournaments last year, and it's believed he has played more PGA Tour events than anyone else in the 15 years since he qualified for the tour at age 32. | | | Funk's freshman year at Maryland he was cut from the golf team and flunked out of school. |
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http://www.golfdigest.com/majors/pga/index.ssf?/majors/pga/gd200308funk.html
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| | The Bass |
| | The bass is the instrument that puts the 'funk' in your tunes and is the main instrument used in funk music. | | | Most bass' don't have frets either, (the sections separated with bars on a guitar) which help you figure out where to place your fingers on the neck. | | | Some people use a pick, but your fingers will toughen up with calluses after a while. |
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| | DVDVR 70 |
| | Dory Funk was the real king on the mat, kind of like a less flashy (If that is possible) Dean Malenko, no dropkicks here, just taking you down to the mat and wrestling the shit out of you. | | | It's 1977- the height of the Funk legend- and he is participating in a match so violent and horrific, it would make Onita piss his new pink tights. | | | Terry has started to do the Funk freakout sell, which he really didn't do much of in the 77 final. |
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| | The Bass |
| | The bass is the instrument that puts the 'funk' in your tunes and is the main instrument used in funk music. | | | Most bass' don't have frets either, (the sections separated with bars on a guitar) which help you figure out where to place your fingers on the neck. | | | The bass line of a song is a pattern or a couple of patterns that are repeated throughout your tune. |
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| | Amazon.com: What It Be: Music |
| | Pete Miser, lyricist for the imfamous 5 fingers of funk, takes a step to the side, and runs the mic solo. | | | Pete steps away from 5 fingers and lets it flow, July 31, 2000 | | | With DJ chill on the beats and Miser on the rhyme they produce a must own album for any NW hiphopster. |
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| | Pete Miser MP3 Downloads - Pete Miser Music Downloads - Pete Miser Music Videos |
| | Miser was born Peter Ho on February 3, 1971, in Portland, OR and grew up in that Pacific Northwest city, where he led and managed the alternative rap group Five Fingers of Funk in the '90s. | | | It was during the '90s that Miser started his own label, Ho-Made Media, which put out Fingers' releases as well as Miser's first solo album, What It Be (a 1996 release). | | | Miser was living in that borough when, in the early 2000s, he was hired as a DJ for Dido's band and went on an international tour with the British trip-hop singer. |
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| | Nuno Bettencourt Page |
| | This useful percussive maneuver involves lightly resting your left-hand fingers on the strings as yoy strum; as Nuno ilustrates in Figure 1-a funky motif reminiscent of one in "Ge The Funk Out." The muted, or deadended notes are indicated by x's in both the staff and tabulature. | | | Nuno uses a single downstroke to sound the Bb and C octaves in the second bar, though they could just as well be plucked with two fingers. | | | So, let's take a quick look at the echo setting Nuno so cleverly employs throughout his "Flight." The delay is set for a single repeat three 16th-notes after the note is initially sounded. |
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| | eastbayexpress.com Music Bembeya Jazz; Oliver Mtukudzi 2003-07-30 Printable |
| | Much of the material is based on traditional folkloric songs, with frequent time shifts and subtle infusions of funk, jazz, and slack-key guitar to keep things percolating. | | | You gotta love any band with a guitar player named Diamond Fingers. | | | Bembeya may not quite ascend to the world beat nirvana heights of the last Baobab disc, but just try not to tap your toes to Diamond Fingers' melodic runs on "Sabou," or refrain from moving your posterior to the universal groove of "Yelema Yelemaso." |
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| | Review Page |
| | The combination of Paul, Bert and Hideyo's incredibly complex chord structures, Tony Levin's inimitable bass style complete with funk fingers, and Pat Mastelotto's smoking drum beats set up an album that is a wild combination of world, jazz, funk and just plain kick-ass rock and roll. | | | Unlike most of their previous more-studied and textured albums, this album is an in-your-face extravanganza of guitar/bass/drums virtuosity. | | | The musicianship and the production quality on the CD is excellent, featuring Tom on the Chapman Stick, as well as Jerry Marotta and Pat Mastelotto on percussion and an appearance by the California Guitar Trio, as well as a special appearance by his Agent 22 cohort Darren DeBree. |
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| | Chicago House - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music |
| | The style established labels including Trax Records, Strictly Rhythm, and Jes Say Records, with music heavily influenced by disco, soul, and funk and characterized by driving four-on-the-floor percussion, funky rhythms, and simple bass lines. | | | Fingers) released the classic house EP Can You Feel It (1986), which continues to stir up dance floors. | | | Whether he's playing his eclectic blend of funk, disco, and house at clubs or radio shows, San Francisco DJ Ron Reeser is always representing. |
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock L |
| | Just to round things out, Levin has also published a book called "Road Photos," a collection of black & white photos of Gabriel, Crimson, Paul Simon and others, and is the inventor of "Funk Fingers", which are drumsticks cut short and attached to the fingers for use in "hammering" the bass strings. | | | Norwegian synthesizer duo, with guest musicians on guitars, woodwinds, etc. Their music is rock propelled with influences from Norwegian folk and classical music, the synth work sometimes taking on the Michael Garrison wall-of-sound feel, with the finesse of early Vangelis. | | | Tony Levin is also known as "the man who has played Bass or Stick with every progressive rock band in existence". |
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| | UFO Tofu |
| | But there's nothing self-conscious or contrived about their concord between urban black music and folkish, hillbilly elements, which is what makes the down-home funk of "Magic Fingers" and the dancing Afro-bluegrass of "The Yee-Haw Factor" such a delight. | | | UFO TOFU is the culmination of three-plus years of unrelenting road work, during which time virtuosos Bela Fleck, Howard Levy, Victor Wooten and Roy "Futureman" Wooten had polished their act to a fine sheen, while expanding and refining their synthesis of jazz, country, funk and world music stylings. | | | The Flecktones' third release, UFO TOFU, is a classy forward-thinking fusion outing that doesn't merely challenge listeners with technocratic bluster, but engages them with wit, intelligence, dynamic interplay...and a whole lotta heart. |
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock L |
| | Just to round things out, Levin has also published a book called "Road Photos," a collection of black & white photos of Gabriel, Crimson, Paul Simon and others, and is the inventor of "Funk Fingers", which are drumsticks cut short and attached to the fingers for use in "hammering" the bass strings. | | | David Lanz is a new age pianist, Paul Speer is a jazz guitarist. | | | The shredding guitars are overlayed with symphonic keyboards and more melodic guitar, on top of which Ronny Hemlin sings with a typical power falsetto. |
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| | UFO Tofu |
| | But there's nothing self-conscious or contrived about their concord between urban black music and folkish, hillbilly elements, which is what makes the down-home funk of "Magic Fingers" and the dancing Afro-bluegrass of "The Yee-Haw Factor" such a delight. | | | UFO TOFU is the culmination of three-plus years of unrelenting road work, during which time virtuosos Bela Fleck, Howard Levy, Victor Wooten and Roy "Futureman" Wooten had polished their act to a fine sheen, while expanding and refining their synthesis of jazz, country, funk and world music stylings. | | | The Flecktones' third release, UFO TOFU, is a classy forward-thinking fusion outing that doesn't merely challenge listeners with technocratic bluster, but engages them with wit, intelligence, dynamic interplay...and a whole lotta heart. |
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| | The Bloodhound Gang Reviews |
| | Unlike Bloodhound Gang's 1995 debut, Use Your Fingers, which was essentially a sample-heavy rap album with rock tendencies, Beer Coaster features a new backing band for more of a live rock sound, with muscle-bound funk touches and rapping (think 311 or Cake). | | | On their debut album, Use Your Fingers, Bloodhound Gang make it clear which group they expect to be confused with: "No, I'm not the guy from the Beastie Boys!" yells Jimmy Pop (or is it his partner Daddy Long Legs?). | | | Full of TV namedropping (Emmanuel Lewis), shopping lists (No-Doz, Rolos), and gleeful juxtapositions (Jack Kerouac and Gilbert Gottfried in the same line), Pop's rhymes are dense enough to be topical as well: various songs cover feminine hygiene, suicide as population control, acting gay as a way to meet women, and so on. |
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| | Techno Guide: Frankie Knuckles |
| | In 1978 Knuckles became resident at the legendary Warehouse club in Chicago, where he contributed to the birth of House music by mixing Disco, Soul, Funk, and Synth-Pop records. | | | Frankie Knuckles started his career as a producer in 1985 after 15 years DJing with a series of releases for Trax records and worked to artist like MARSHALL JEFFERSON, Fingers Inc., and Danica. | | | Born in New York's Bronx 1965, Frankie Knuckles has been named the "Godfather of House". |
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| | :: DUOPIANOS :: Mark Hennen and Toby Kasavan, Theory of Everything, piano duet, jazz, piano music |
| | TOBY KASAVAN is a composer-improviser and pianist who combines rhythm and blues, funk and hard rock with avant-garde jazz and new music.Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was part of the downtown loft jazz community. | | | Kasavan has presented his composition Karamaville at the Knitting Factory in NYC and at the AMERICAN CHURCH in Paris and co-curated, co-produced and performed in the Whitney Museum’s 1996 80 Fingers Duo Piano Festival. | | | MARK HENNEN was born in Madison, Wisconsin, June 15, 1951. |
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| | CD Baby: HEX: Game On Twist |
| | the world is on the tip of our fingers we the funk mob and Hex got this Game on Twist. | | | HEX This man is very lyrical with a style of his own, very articulate on his method of brining heat to the table. | | | We've been working hard to launch our NEW approach to marketing, supporting and promoting our artists within a multidimensional business environment. |
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| | Backyard Pub News Page |
| | Dickson, who is of English parentage, is currently on tour promoting his solo album "Alone With You", a Latin/funk-styled showcase of Dickson's impressive technical skill. | | | His lighting-fast fingers were a blur of motion and his face a scrunched-up ball of intensity as he played at The Backyard Pub in Taman Sri Hartamas on Wednesday. | | | There is a deep love between Farid and the 12-stringed instrument, which he uses to create a new sound he calls "jazz gambus". |
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| | Elephant Talk #569 |
| | Unfortunately, there was a Jaegermeister fueled moron a little behind me who was bellowing, "FUNK FINGERS!!!" at top volume over and over and over, which was tolerable as he was chilled out by his pals after about ten minutes. | | | I was about 5 feet from the stage dead center. | | | I mean, Christ, I have a day job! |
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| | Gutter Twins by Rob Norton |
| | The funk soul brother has also recently produced the new Afterhours album and is planning to join the band on stage for the April shows. | | | Former Afghan Whigs head honcho Greg continues to keep several of his fingers in several different pies by fronting his main band, the Twilight Singers and performing with his side-project Uptown Lights, showcasing the current music of his rotating players. | | | Mark sang a duet with Greg on the Twilight Singers’ 2003 album Blackberry Belle, and provided backing vocals for their 2004 follow-up She Loves You. |
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| | Bass guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The electric bass, in contrast to the electric upright bass, is played while being held horizontally across the body and may be played with the fingers (and sometimes the thumb) or a plectrum (pick). | | | The electric bass is the standard bass instrument in many musical genres, including country, jazz, many flavors of rock and roll, soul, funk, and modern orchestral music. | | | The instrument is a descendant of the double bass (a cousin of the violin and viola da gamba) and shares design attributes of the electric guitar and features in common with a range of other bass instruments. |
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| | Bass guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Using a plectrum typically gives the bass a brighter, more punchy sound, while playing with one's fingers makes the sound more soft and round. | | | This often varies according to the musical genre âvery few funk bassists use plectrums, while they are almost de rigueur for punk rock. | | | Some bassists use their fingernails flamenco-style to provide some compromise between playing fingerstyle and using a pick. |
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| | www.myspace.com/jamiroquai |
| | Written and recorded in Spain, Italy, Costa Rica, Scotland, New York, Los Angeles and his own purpose built Buckinghamshire studio, 'Dynamite' is both a consolidation of thirteen years of Jamiroquai's trademarked sci-fi sound and a cocky, two fingers to anyone who thinks that at 35, Kay might be resting on his country pile. | | | Single 'Feels Just Like It Should' for one is a ramped-up, high-octane snarl; Jamiroquai's organic funk put through a digital grinder and pinned to a filthy groove. | | | jamiroquai the best band ever!specially in trotsc era! |
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| | Charlie Hunter Press - August 4, 1995 |
| | When young Bay Area musicians were filling local clubs with the sounds of jazz fused with funk, hip-hop and ethnic music, Hunter's groups were perhaps the most popular of all those performing -- guitar fanatics were awed by his technique, and regular folks simply liked his funky sound. | | | There seem to be alien forces at work when Hunter plays his eight-string guitar: His thumb thumps smooth bass lines, while his fingers simultaneously tickle melodies and slap rhythms. | | | Hunter's jazzy, polyrhythmic playing gives the semblance of three brains at work when he plays his custom-made instrument, which uses both electric guitar and bass guitar strings. |
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| | mcfmod.htm |
| | After Absent Friends split in 1990 (the band was never designed to be a long-term venture), Kelly formed the critically acclaimed RandB/soul/ funk outfit The Dukes which lasted until 1994. | | | Duffield issued a solo album, Ten Happy Fingers, on his own Retrograde label in 1988. | | | The band's break-up was not made official until June 1988. |
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