kb: add funk guitar pack

5 vamps (one-chord I9 with quality motion 9-13-9sus4, Dorian i7-IV7,
disco ii-V loop, I9-bVII9 figure, EWF smooth maj7 loop) x 2 plays:
Nolen 9th cycle, 7#9 grit, Chameleon pair, m11 barre, Le Freak grips,
top-4 shimmer. 16th-grid comping patterns documented (scratch, chika,
JB cell, Sex Machine, Rodgers selective). Sourced Cissy Strut lick.
Validator and build green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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export default [
{
id: 'funk-one-chord',
name: 'One-chord I9 vamp (James Brown)',
rn: ['I9', 'I13', 'I9sus4', 'I9'],
degrees: [0, 0, 0, 0],
qualities: ['dom7', 'dom7', 'sus4', 'dom7'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'mixolydian',
songs: ['Get Up (Sex Machine) — James Brown', 'Cold Sweat — James Brown', "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"],
tip: 'The harmony never moves — the chord QUALITY does: 9 → 13 → 9sus4 → 9 is the whole arrangement. Funk colour lives in the voicing, not the progression.',
},
{
id: 'funk-dorian-vamp',
name: 'Dorian two-chord vamp (i7IV7)',
rn: ['i9', 'IV9'],
degrees: [0, 5],
qualities: ['min7', 'dom7'],
bars: [1, 1],
mode: 'dorian',
songs: ['Chameleon — Herbie Hancock', 'Use Me — Bill Withers', 'Cissy Strut — The Meters (i7 side)'],
tip: 'THE funk pair: both chords live inside one Dorian scale, so soloists never have to switch. The major IV is what makes it Dorian, not sad.',
},
{
id: 'funk-25-loop',
name: 'Disco loop (ii7V9, never resolves)',
rn: ['ii7', 'V9'],
degrees: [2, 7],
qualities: ['min7', 'dom7'],
bars: [1, 1],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['Le Freak — Chic', 'Good Times — Chic', 'I Wish — Stevie Wonder'],
tip: 'A iiV that never finds its I — the resolution is the dance floor. Same two-chord dyad as the Dorian vamp, heard from the other side.',
},
{
id: 'funk-bvii-move',
name: 'I9–♭VII9 figure',
rn: ['I9', '♭VII9'],
degrees: [0, 10],
qualities: ['dom7', 'dom7'],
bars: [1, 1],
mode: 'mixolydian',
songs: ['the James Brown E9→D9 figure', 'countless JB-school vamps'],
tip: 'One grip sliding down a whole step and back. The ♭VII is borrowed Mixolydian gravity — it falls back to the I on its own.',
},
{
id: 'funk-smooth-loop',
name: 'Smooth maj7 loop (EWF)',
rn: ['IVmaj7', 'iii7', 'ii7', 'iii7'],
degrees: [5, 4, 2, 4],
qualities: ['maj7', 'min7', 'min7', 'min7'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['September — Earth, Wind & Fire'],
tip: 'Starts on the IVmaj7 and orbits the iii — home is implied, never stated. (Every third pass, September turns the iii into V/vi for the lift.)',
},
]