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Mark King's Love Games groove is four funk moves stacked together. We drill each one on its own: the thump and mute, the pluck, the thump-ghost-thump triplet, and the hammer-on pattern. Then we loop the A section two bars at a time and climb from 80 to the record's 104.
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⏱ CHAPTERS
0:00 Funk language in one groove
0:31 The funk zone
0:55 Where the thumb goes
2:11 Thump and mute drill
2:49 Adding the pluck
3:04 Thump-ghost-thump triplet
5:06 Mark King's hammer-on drill
6:40 Love Games: bars 1 and 2
11:12 Two-bar loop with drums
12:26 Bars 3 and 4
15:05 Breaking point tempo
17:08 Wrap-up
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