{"id":925,"date":"2019-08-22T16:18:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:44:06","slug":"music-cory-wong-rhythm-guitar-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/music-cory-wong-rhythm-guitar-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"music: Cory Wong, rhythm guitar ace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YouTube recommended Vulfpeck to me, mid-West funky players with a killer bassist Joe Dart, but a bit too whitey-tighty. They occasionally play with rhythm guitarist Cory Wong, who is just great. The love child of Nile Rodgers, Prince, John Mayer, and an unnamed percussionist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the opening to &#8220;Companion Pass&#8221; he unleashes a machine gun triplet chickata-chickita-chickita which had every other guitarist going back to school to learn how he does it[*]. Video below (stick around for his hallway meeting with ZZ Top&#8217;s guitarist) or on his new album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/corywong.bandcamp.com\/album\/motivational-music-for-the-syncopated-soul\">Motivational Music For The Syncopated Soul<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cory Wong \/\/ Companion Pass (live @ SiriusXM)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D2sp-m1D9xU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His home-town return concert Live in Mpls (edit: he&#8217;s recorded more Minneapolis shows, the one below you need to hear\/watch is &#8220;&#8221;CORY WONG \/\/ LIVE IN MPLS \/\/ 9 FEB 2019&#8243;&#8221;) is a lot of fun, stuffed with music in-jokes. In the middle of the middle song in the show (&#8220;Frogville \/\/ Airplane Mode&#8221;), he plays the greatest rhythm guitar solo break I&#8217;ve heard this millennium! It actually starts at 50:28 but it&#8217;s worth hearing the weak instrumental before it just for &#8220;Alright Kev, let&#8217;s show them we went to music school.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CORY WONG \/\/ LIVE IN MPLS \/\/ 9 FEB 2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C5XPSwZefs4?start=2989&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I bought a VIP pass to see him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corywongmusic.com\/tour\">on tour<\/a> to meet in person before the show, can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vulfpeck&#8217;s best song, &#8220;It Gets Funkier&#8221;, is up to version IV (with Cory Wong), video below or on the album Hillclimber. Someone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EpYHp-W51H4\">made a video<\/a> tracking its evolution and BPM increase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VULFPECK \/\/\/ It Gets Funkier IV (feat. Louis Cole)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nq5LMGtBmis?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Cory Wong slows and steps through &#8220;The Wong Triplet Rhythm Porcaro Paul Jackson Jr. Ripoff Lick&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/reverb.com\/news\/video-vulfpecks-cory-wongs-signature-triplet-funk-lick-lesson\">this lesson<\/a>, how hard can it be \ud83d\ude42 You know there&#8217;s some kid watching who is going to play it twice as fast while solving a Rubik&#8217;s cube and playing Rock Band drums on hardest difficulty with his feet.<br> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube recommended Vulfpeck to me, mid-West funky players with a killer bassist Joe Dart, but a bit too whitey-tighty. They occasionally play with rhythm guitarist Cory Wong, who is just great. The love child of Nile Rodgers, Prince, John Mayer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/music-cory-wong-rhythm-guitar-ace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[33,32],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-funk","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}