funk

Funk guitar isn't easy for beginners, it's fast, staccato, truncated fifth chords around the middle of the neck. Also in funk the real star instrument is the bass. Funk makes alot more sense from the bass point of view. I used to set Garageband's Vintage Funk drum loops going and just work various bass grooves to them. The electric guitar becomes a percussive counterpoint.

To really get into funk you might want to get drum loops or a drum machine so you have something to groove to. Funk isn't a music where the guitarist makes the rhythm (as in rock's big riffs). It's a collective music where the band takes cues from each other to keep the beat tight.

The Godfather of Funk is James Brown so look up things like Sex Machine. Brown's bassist was Bootsy Collins, a major funk star in his own right and right at the deep weird end is George Clinton. Disco is the pop version of funk but the two are indivisible. In disco bass the octave lick rules, look into this to get right in the heart of the groove.