By: Norm Listen online:    Added: 7/02/2009 Length: 2:10 My rating:  (click to rate) Login to rate this song My friends:  (0 friends) Avg. rating:  (2 ratings) Downloads:  1   My Plays: 0 Reviews: 0   Site Plays:  17 Playlists: 0   Comments:  2 Genre: Other: Instrumental Actions  Download this song  Review this song  Share this song  Add song to playlist  Flag as inappropriate Year: 2009 Artist's description: Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid to late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. By mid-1960s, funk pioneer James Brown had developed his signature groove that emphasized the downbeat, rather than the backbeat that typified American soul music, as well as most Rock And Roll. [By comparison, 4/4 Afro-Cuban rhythms typically emphasize the 2+ and 4 beats of the 1st bar, referred to as the Bombe (bomb) and Ponche (punch) beats, respectively] Brown often cued his band with the command "On the one!," changing the percussion emphasis/accent from the one-TWO-three-FOUR backbeat of traditional soul music to the ONE-two-THREE-four downbeat – with an even-note syncopated guitar rhythm (on quarter notes two and four). The word "funk", once defined in dictionaries as body odor or the smell of sexual intercourse, commonly was regarded as coarse or indecent. James Brown and others have credited Little Richard's mid-1950s road band, with New Orleans-born Earl Palmer on drums, as being the first to put the funk in the rock 'n' roll beat. According to one source, Palmer "was the first to use the word "funky" to explain to other musicians that their music should be made more syncopated and danceable." 4/4 200 bpm Awards received: No awards received yet.

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Comments Jul 02 2009 6:44 pm by Norm Thanks Clones! Jul 02 2009 5:59 pm by clones sounds like Marvin Gaye to me!

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