As one of the most respected players working in funk right now, Cory Wong is widely regarded as the Nile Rodgers for the next generation. Ahead of his UK tour in October, he explains how to make sure you stay right in that pocket and reveals the chords that can get you through any musical scenario…
Your right hand is often described as a motor – always ticking along even in between the notes you play…
“What I noticed early on is that a lot of things feel easier when all the downstrokes are on the beat or on an ‘and’. And all the ‘e’ and ‘a’ notes are played using an upstroke. If I live by that philosophy, that means my right hand is just pulsing 16th notes the whole time. I’m just deciding what to hit the strings, which strings to hit, how many notes I’m actually fretting or whether to just play scratches. I
