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Tropea began guitar studies at the age of 12. His musical education continued at Berklee College of Music [3] in Boston, where he studied jazz guitar, harmony, musical composition, and big band arranging. After arriving in Boston, Tropea began playing jazz and R&B with local bands, including The Three Degrees.
Chanking is a guitar performance technique in funk music that involves both "choking" the guitar neck and strumming the strings percussively to create a distinctive-sounding riff commonly associated with the genre. [1] The technique was popularized by the music of James Brown, later spreading to other genres and performers.
Garry Marshall Shider (July 24, 1953 – June 16, 2010) was an American musician and guitarist. He was musical director of the P-Funk All-Stars for much of their history. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
Johnson began playing guitar when he was 15, honing his chops in local rock bands such as Treacherous Funk, Pilot, and Dealer, throughout his teens and early twenties. On the recommendation of fellow Musician, Robbie Muskeyvalley (of the band "Midnight Express", he moved in 1981 to Minneapolis, Minnesota , where he met Morris Day and played ...
John Scofield (born December 26, 1951) [2] is an American guitarist and composer. His music over a long career has blended jazz, jazz fusion, funk, blues, soul and rock. [1] He first came to mainstream attention as part of the band of Miles Davis; he has toured and recorded with many prominent jazz artists including saxophonists Eddie Harris, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, and Joe Lovano ...
Michael Hampton (born November 15, 1956) is an American funk/rock guitarist. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic .
Centrifugal Funk is the second and final studio album by the Mark Varney Project (MVP), released in 1991 through Legato Records; a remastered edition was reissued in 2004 through Tone Center Records. [3] This line-up of the group features guitarists Frank Gambale, Brett Garsed and Shawn Lane. [4]
Cameron Thomas Duddy (born December 6, 1985) is an American music video director and musician with over 9 billion views across his work. [1] [2] [3] As a director, he is known for his work with Bruno Mars, OneRepublic, and Fifth Harmony.