Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder // Funk Guitar Lesson

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Күн бұрын

This year I am paying tribute to the greatest artist of all time, Stevie Wonder, by releasing only videos related to his music. It will be a YEAR IN THE KEY OF STEVIE. Following up on my previous guitar play through of the two guitar parts played by Errol Cooney (‪@errolcooney1877‬) and Kyle Bolden (‪@muzikman022‬) on Stevie Wonder's Live At Last (2009) concert film, I've tried to put together a mid-length lesson on what I'm playing. I'll include a link to a chart below.
It's really rare for guitarists to play this song well, as we get drawn towards the flat third to fifth chord progression and ignore the shuffle/rhythm reggae combo that emphasises the upstrokes. I'll be uploading a full guitar lesson on this later this week, just need a bit more time to edit. In the meantime - a video of me jamming out to Higher Ground, from Stevie's Innervisions - my favourite album of all time.
As always, if you've enjoyed this video please give me a follow on the socials. All the relevant pieces are available at bio.site/kallp
00:00 Solo guitar play-through
03:56 Initial thoughts
05:10 Shuffle rhythm in Eb
14:00 Palm-muted lines
18:46 Second play through
20:13 Closing thoughts

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@one-me1ex 2 ай бұрын

4:45 that's funky as hell dude. My new guitar mission

@vamband Жыл бұрын

thank you for this! another lesson was saying Ebm and I knew that was missing something. excellent playing

@jameserenberger3425 Ай бұрын

Nice transition from lead back to rhythm parts towards the end there.

@GuitarFunkPlayer 11 ай бұрын

Thank you I have been putting together a tutorial for this song. This gives me some ideas

@tomneily9506 2 ай бұрын

Best ever thank you my old way was so boring this is a million times better you are now scarey pockets funka sized

@johnnyvlee Ай бұрын

That turnaround chord B7(#9b13) {I'm not sure what the parens mean here?} it's a bit of a stretch. But if you move the Ab on the 4th string up a whole step it still sounds very funky and appropriate and it seems a bit of an easier chord to play. Excellent lesson, Mr. P. Very pro sounding chord voicings. I have no idea if they are what was played on any given recording, but I'm guessing that experienced funk guitarists may chord slightly differently at various times.

@shelshaffer4352 22 күн бұрын

The parentheses mean those are optional color tones.

@KallanPhillips 12 күн бұрын

Thanks Johnny! There's no guitar part on the original recording, just Stevie in all his clav'd out bliss. I also don't think that Stevie is playing the #9b13 on the original recording. So this is basically just an exact recreation of the Live at Last guitar arrangement. If it's good enough for Stevie it's good enough for me ;)

@KallanPhillips Жыл бұрын

Apologies for constantly getting the chord scale #s wrong lel

@vamband Жыл бұрын

lol helps to pick 'flat' or 'sharp' and stick with that designation, in this case E flat.. also if you could list the chords for each section in the description, that'd be super helpful for us trying to learn without needing to stop the video to note them down constantly, thank you! appreciate you showing them on screen, awesome otherwise