Extreme - Get the Funk Out - Guitar Tab

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1990 4:24

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About Get the Funk Out

Nuno Bettencourt's riffing on this track is a clinic in tight, percussive funk-rock rhythm playing. The main riff sits in E minor and leans hard on muted 16th-note strumming with sharp chord stabs, so your right hand has to stay disciplined at all times. At 104 BPM it feels comfortable until you try to keep every ghost strum locked and every accent punchy across a full minute of riffing. The syncopation is where most players slip, so isolate the opening riff with the Practice Toolbar, slow it down, and drill the muting pattern until the groove locks in before you bring it back up to tempo. Extreme built the song around a call-and-response dynamic between the riff and the vocal, so rhythmic accuracy matters more here than flash. E Standard tuning means no retuning needed, but tone-wise you want a bright, slightly scooped clean-to-crunch sound to cut through the way the record does. Focus on your pick attack and left-hand muting before worrying about the solo.

• The main riff relies on tight palm muting and 16th-note syncopation in E minor, making consistent right-hand muting the core technical challenge.
• At 104 BPM the groove feels approachable, but keeping every muted ghost note clean under tempo is harder than it first appears.
• The song is in E Standard tuning, so no retuning is needed, and looping it slowed down in the Practice Toolbar will help lock in the rhythmic feel.