1. New Orleans Funk

The smoothest, smoothest funk sound from Louisiana. This rhythm is rooted in the second-line rhythm of New Orleans marches and African music Clave. If you want to listen to the original New Orleans Funk, you can listen to the Meter band's previous albums, and the most outstanding contemporary representatives can listen to Glactic and Eddie Bo's "The Hook And Sling".

Representative drummer: Johnny Vidacovich

2. Oakland Funk

Compared with the smooth New Orleans style, Oakland Funk has a lot of syncopation. The leading band in this style is Tower Of Power, which has a very lethal wind section and David Garibaldi as the rhythm foundation. It's been almost 50 years since they released their debut album East Bay Grease in 1970, and the band is still "grooving" today.

Representative drummer: David Garibaldi

3. Jazz Funk

Add the rhythm of Funk to jazz to make this music more acceptable, but initially The album was a hit but met with resistance from jazz purist fans. The key pioneering musicians who promoted the development of jazz funk style were Donald Byrd and Herbie Hancock.

Representative drummer: Harvey Mason

Representative drummer: Dennis Chamber

4. Pop Funk

The purest form of Funk music is repetition , lock a fixed rhythm and keep it going. Adding funk grooves to the structure of pop songs gives the style, called pop-funk, greater appeal. Jamiroquai has sold millions of records using this method, and other musicians who proved to be very successful in the 1980s were Cameo and Prince.

Representing drummer: John Blackwell

5. Original Funk

The word Funk has been used for decades, but Funk as a music style first started to James Brown and his co-drummers Clyde Stubblefield, Jabo Starks, Clayton Fillyau and Melvin Parker. Drummers began to use syncopation on the beat to coordinate with other instruments in the rhythm.

6. Soul Funk

The boundaries between Soul and Funk music are blurred, and sometimes it is not easy to distinguish. Funk music is rough and hard to play, but with a little polishing and regularization to make the melody more prominent, you get Soul Funk. Listen to Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly" and hear how he did it.

Representative drummer 1: Bernard Purdie

Representative drummer 2: Quinton Joseph

7. Funk Rock

The main reason for the emergence of rock funk It was some rock bassists who borrowed the slap technique from their funk counterparts. Soon rock drummers were adding funkier syncopations to their grooves. The representative bands of funk rock music are Red Chilli Peppers and Faith No More in the late 1980s.

Representative drummer: Chad Smith

8. Afro Funk

For the birth of Afro Funk (also known as Afrobeat) music, the late great Fela from Nigeria Kutti is the key figure. Kuti's drummer is the incredible Tony Allen, and together they bring African influences back to funk music. You can listen to any music Kuti made in the 70s.

Representative drummer: Tony Allen

9. Hip-Hop Funk

Dr. Dre and some West Coast rappers from Death Row Records came from Funk music A lot of samples were made, but The Roots and their drummer Questlove really carried forward the spirit of Funk. They used real instruments to play Hip-Hop music. "To me, what he plays is pure funk," Ziggy said.

Representative drummer: Uestlove

10. R&B Funk

Modern R&B music (different from rhythm and blues R&B) draws on many elements of Funk music.

Artists such as Bobby Brown and Beyoncé incorporated syncopation into their dance-style beats, and the rich rhythms and exaggerated percussion sounds of funk also inspired and influenced R'n'B music production. production style. Without a song like "Cold Sweat," there wouldn't be a song like "Crazy in Love."

Representative drummer: Zoro