To me there is nothing more annoying than hearing a musician CHUNK!!!!  What do I mean by CHUNK?  It’s a not a musical term—just a “Pam” term!

I call it CHUNKING when someone plays the same chord on every syllable or every beat of the song.  It can also happen whenever a person comes to the end of a musical phrase and doesn’t know what else to do–so they just CHUNK on the same chord until it is time to change to another chord.   Every measure sounds like:

| CHUNK   CHUNK   CHUNK  CHUNK |  CHUNK  CHUNK  CHUNK  CHUNK |

If you’re doing that—it’s time to learn something new!!!!

When I hear someone CHUNKING, it reminds me of a can of chunked pineapple—all uniformly cut!  Music should never sound like chunks of pineapple!  Can you say BORING!!!  Besides that—if you have a good drummer, you are “fighting” your drummer to set the rhythm.

Here is “Bless that Wonderful Name of Jesus” played “chunky.”

Here is “Bless that Wonderful Name of Jesus” played with better rhythm!

Here is “Amazing Grace” played “chunky.”

Here is “Amazing Grace” played smoothly.

So as you play–become more aware of what you sound like and DON’T play CHUNKY!!!!!