Groove is a commonly used word that is still not easy to define. The groove is definitely the engine of every danceable music. The question still remains: when or how is it grooving? That's the question that turns this workout! At the beginning of GernotDecherts
booklet, there are gossip exercises that help keep the tempo as you clap sixteenth notes. Each of the pieces in this booklet then refers to a particular bluesscale, which is already given at the beginning in the first measure. Gernot Dechert will then guide you through the fascinating musical world of Maceo Parker & Co. with typical funk-gooves - in all key ways.
Each individual pattern, of which Dechert has many in his pieces, can and should be transposed into other keys. So you get with this issue a kind of groove creative box, from which you can exercise whatever the right time! The enclosed CD helps to practice the pieces and also to improvise with the learned rhythms and bluespatterns. Each title appears both as a full version for listening and as a playback version - these are funky grooves at its best!
