Funk · hard · 96 BPM
Funk 16th Ghost-Note Groove
A James Brown-school funk pocket where the loud backbeat on 2 and 4 is surrounded by quiet ghosted snare notes filling the sixteenths. Those soft strokes plus the syncopated kick create the greasy, hypnotic sixteenth-note feel that defines the genre.
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What this teaches
Dynamic control - playing accented backbeats against whisper-quiet ghost notes on the same hand to build a sixteenth-note groove.
Heard in
- Cold Sweat - James Brown