As the genre of the EP has had a last minute change I've used all my spare time trying to make my self more familiar with the funk/soul genre. To start off i dove deeper into a bands discography I already listen to (Vulfpeck). "One thing you'll idubitably notice early on when listening to this album is that there is less of a funk vibe to it, and more of a soul/r'n'b sound." (Dominik Boehmer 2017). This qoute perfectly describes the tone of the bands sound which helped me a lot when song writing and definitely influenced my decisions when picking chords and melodies. The rhythm guitarisrt of the band "Cory Wong' is a massive inspiration of mine and is one of the reasons why I took an interest in the funk genre. A video from the youtube channel "Reverb" features him discussing his guitar technique on how he uses his right hand to play guitar. He discusses letting his picking hand go limp in order for him to strum faster, he mixes this with the funk muting technique to get a funky sound.
The Glyn Johns Technique (GJT) is a technique used for recording drums created by the British sound engineer Glyn Johns. "who most notably worked with Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, and even started his career assisting for The Beatles." (The Recording Revolution 2011). From this we can clearly see the the GJT is worth researching as it has been used by some of the most influential musicians of all time. The beauty behind the GJT is the pure minimalism behind it. Instead of having to mic up each tom symbol, ETC. The GJT only uses four microphones. It starts with simply placing one mono-overhead above the snare or middle of the kit approximately 3/4 feet. This will allow you to gain a over all balanced sound of the kit. Equally balancing the entire kit. The next microphone (also an overhead) should be placed "to the right of the floor tom, maybe 6 inches above the rim and facing across the tom towards the snare and hi hat" (Th...
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