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This is so kind of you to share this kind of top quality analysis thank you man, this is priceless for anyone wishing to improvise better I hope you reach the hearts of many ❤
Step 1 was the guitar scholarship of analyzing the solos and digesting it into 10 things to think about, but then next your personal style of discussing it and demonstrating it is so pleasant to listen to. Very cool video, thanks.
In reference to what you said about Jerry's 70's vs 90's playing...I think of it as pre and post coma. Pre come, he had a fiery, bluesy, quality that, at it's best (think Caution from 72 @Wembly, or Hard to Handle from Phil Zone) surpassed everyone. POst coma....that was gone. Like...utterly. His string bends were pretty much all awkward sounding, often flat, stiff, etc. But...he had an otherworldy, angelic quality that was far beyond anything from his precoma years. It's like when Gandalf the Grey was killed by the demon, and came back as Gandalf the White.
@ no, I mean pre and post coma. He was clean, except lsd and shrooms in 89 and 90, which was the peak of his latwr ethereal style. And, he was on heroin in 77, a peak year
When Brent was spiraling so did Jerry. They were partners in crime so to speak. The H had them both. When Brent died Jerry wasn't the same IMO. And Vince welnick was almost intolerable but Bruce Hornsby was not a terrible inclusion. Brent and Jerry played off each other greatly
@ nah. Some of Jerry’s best moments post Brent. Less frequent sure. Heroin wasn’t the problem as much as obesity, chain smoking, constant crack smoking, and poor diet. At least according to all of Jerry’s physicians
@@wethepeoplelgb2167 not too mention, when Brent was "spiraling," Jerry was clean, for the most part. From Fall of 89 to spring 90, Garca was clean, and Brent was hurtling into the grave, so Im afraid your theory holds no water.
Im so glad you mentioned 80's, 90's and JGB. I was lucky to be emblazened from the sounds he made from that time. Decades of me playing helps but when someone like yourself so accuratetly puts words to these skillsets he (Jerry) would use helps a bunch for someone like me who knows hardly anything about the theory of it. Of course I want to jump right in and sign up. Thank you for sharing your discoveries and having the challenge available to us.
if u know/learn only one thing about music theory and guitar, learn INTERVALS. intervals literally form the entire basis of western music and they are just numbers. so you can then understand, think of, describe, or analyze any music as the intervals that it is composed of be they chords, scales, or anything. progressions. It's all linked back to intervals. 8 notes per octave...start at A for example. A B C D E F G A...so if A is your Root note, B is the major 2nd interval, C the major third. D major 4th interval and so on. each whole step away from your root is an interval until you get back to the octave or 8th. The root is also called unison or first.
@@Sim-q9t appreciate that. Well said. It seems some do well with visual(shaping on fretboard) and others take to the other way. I need to find what works for me. I'm trying hard to know the WWHalf thing but it's hard. I've always been uncomfortable on ascending or desc. scales when I get to the B string. From G to B or B to G. Everything's smooth until I get to that area and seems that's when there's some jump or leap of faith place where I'm not confident. I'm always rewarded when I finish on the root note because it's what I wanted and sounds good for my purposes but it doesn't always happen. I sometimes finish on a root note rather than the root note and it sounds good to me if there's any validity to that. I wish I could discern the difference. These examples are where your interval advice is so appeciated.The other thing is habits. Been playing for so long and like golf if you're not practicing the right or most efficient way I'm limited. ie. For the life of me my basic G chord is not done w the pinkie. This is limiting because getting to the 7th requires a lot more effort. Another example of my defects is say A chord on 5th fret. I cannot or haven't been comfortable doing it any other way than the bar method w the E shape. If you follow me I'm not wanting to use index and 2nd finger on high E and B strings. This has to be the result of always barring my chords to the point I'm wondering if it's a problem other than muscle memory. I do appreciate your reply. FYI, or for what it's worth I've strictly played acoustic guitar and what I'm using today. I'm aweful on electric because it's so much easier or rather I'm not used to the micro movements comparitively.
@@Sim-q9t I would like to add that when learning intervals, really concentrate on an internalize the emotional feelings of these intervals. That way instead of thinking what note fits here, think what feeling fits here. Hope that makes sense. It really opened up my playing when I started looking at it that way.
Thanks for sharing what you have discovered from your journey. From what you explained, it seems like Jerry is not rigidly stuck with the scale. Instead, he used it as skeleton but he used many notes adjacent to the notes on the scale. Cheers from Indonesia.
Whenever I learn a Jerry solo, I start slow little phrases at a time you realize how good he really was and how it actually makes sense musically and melodically
This is a fantastic video, but I think how it really works is... Jerry is a fantastic songwriter, and he could make his guitar sing his songs for him. I think it's that simple.
Yeah, he was out for a week-ish in July 86 and Merl Saunders had to help motivate him to keep up. he was back in some form with the JGB by October, so I assume it was an exponential improvement
I think a big influence on JGs soloing was that early on, besides being an average blues-based player, he used semi-acoustic guitars like Gibson ES335, which have a mushy warm sound, thanks to its humbucking pickups. Later he started playing the Alembic guitar with active single-coil pickups, like your strat, which had a much more responsive tone, and enabled Garcia to bring out many nuances of his playing which were lost on the semis. His artistic choices also developed in combination with his improving technique and the band becoming more adept at improvising long structures and following Garcia, who was the only soloist (if you don’t count the drum solos).
This video is so fantastic. I'm such a deadhead. And by that I mean, there is just no band that puts me in a better mood than the Grateful Dead. I've been struggling to get better at Guitar for 30 years. I can't wait to dive into your program And really work Jerry's style from the ground up. My Guitar teacher tells me that I can make any song sound like the Grateful Dead is covering it for the first time. It's a hilarious diss, and I love him for it. It's just that I have listened to the Grateful Dead so many times that no matter what song I play I hear it through that filter and I end up playing it through that filter. I look forward to sounding like I play it better. I'm also psyched to check out your Bobby lessons because, you're right. His rhythm guitar style is so unique. Anyway, this comment is too long. Thank you and I look forward to supporting what you're doing.
No. 10 came the closes to one that I would add- play rhythmically, almost percussively, make it funky. It’s not smooth and creamy, it’s bouncy and playful.
@ As someone who has learned many Jerry solos, I couldn’t agree more. Some aspects were knew to me which was cool. I have seen many a Jerry guy in Dead bands who have hardly absorbed any of these aspects. Cheers bro!
yeah, but he was very aware of notes that mirror chord changes in various scales. Kind of like how Allan Holdsworth had plenty of notes in a certain neck position pattern, its especially important to be aware what fits the song structure.
A super important thing Jerry definitely did was not to copy other guitarists. He was inventing something new and unique to him that moved other people. The true definition of art! It took half of my life to find out that trying to sound like somebody else is sabotaging your true self and killing your potential. Don’t waste your life being a fan. Be a creator. Try to be yourself and if you are a truly unique character, it will show in your playing. Some people got it, some don’t, but not imitating is the very first step into a bigger world. NONE of the great guitarists were imitating. ALL of them brought something new and unique to the table. That’s the differenteren being a good guitarist and a great one.
The funny thing about Jerry and the Dead is, it sounds great (most of the time), and can be quite complex over a whole show or album, but I can actually figure it out, and kind of jam along. And it makes normal sense, albiet some odd time signatures sometimes. Unlike trying to actually play Holdsworth, Malmsteen, and probably some other stuff I cant seem to follow what its doing, or even what key it seems to be in.
appreciate all the work you, and your team, put into producing your teaching content. can we take the hint that dire wolf and other tunes will soon be available in your catalog of offerings?
Yup. I tried to mostly pick songs that I either hadn't made a track for yet or wanted to redo. So I'm leveraging my time and can now make them better and faster since doing this 30 solo challenge.
It's not what but how you play is definitely the most sage advice you can give anybody on playing guitar. Create your own sound and don't try to replicate anyone, including Jerry Garcia, because you'll just end up sounding like a cheap knock off. Great video - I gotta work more on triads and unique bends.
Didnt Jimi H. bend up and down to notes a lot like that, or even more? I cant even begin to figure out how all the unique lines and phrases fit into the chords of the songs.
Awesome vid Jeff been watching you for years. I’m in music school and my professors say the same thing. Transcribing is the most valuable thing you can do. Are you in a dead band? Just wondering, would be a shame if not!
Hey thanks. Yeah, I wish they had transcribing software when I was in school. I had special CD player that would slow things down but definitely wasn't as useful. The first band I played guitar in was a Dead cover band but I only played one gig with them. Currently I don't gig. I got burned out from it and am focused on spending time with my kids. But I'll probably get the itch to get back out there at some point.
I like the format of your video here. You are well paced with the information and it seems very thoughtfully approached and presented. As for Jerry, I was never a big fan. I appreciated some of the Dead but it became laborious after a few songs to even listen to. For some reason, however, every single time I heard his lead work I thought of a merry go round, the kind with actual wooden horses and mirrors, all painted white with pretty lights all over it. I know that seems strange, at first, but think about the music that's played on those rides, it's very piano roll or pinwheel-ish, think old late 1800s / early 1900s carnival music. There must be something to that because his playing always brings up that imagery in my head. That music, to me, is mostly happy, upbeat, whimsical, playful, all the things that Jerry encapsulated as a musician. I will say I have always held him in high regard, even though I wasn't a big fan, because he has a solid and identifiable style and sound, maybe not as unique as BB King but it's relative to that. He's one of the top 10 most identifiable players ever. For that and that alone, yeah, Jerry was super cool and his style and techniques are well worth taking a closer look at. Also, thinking of the Dead, every true hippy I've ever met was just as needful of psych meds as the people locked up in rubber rooms, they were just on the happy end of that same spectrum and it never dawned upon anyone that flipping between bummed, ADHD and euphoria could be dangerous... unless you offered it your couch.
The first solo you say you did when the beginning of your Garcia deep dive is definitely just you copying a solo of his the last one shows a motion in improvisation
Anything without Mickey hart was brilliant. Listen to the jam section on playing in the band in the Grateful Dead movie. This is why they are great. Most of their music is meh, like Zappa, but when they are on, they are on.
Yeah, if you know the scale-tones really well, you have access to all 12 notes in any key, over any chord. It’s just a matter of placing chord and scale tones on the rhythmically strong points and surrounding those notes with chromatically on the weak points. The whole “Barry Harris chromatic scale” thing which I call bumblebeeing.
dude wasnt he mising part of his fingeer/s? no one will ever sound like him. sorry. u sound great though. great. idk........i can't play that stuff. props
Jerry basically used a drug addiction based formula. The constant chromaticism, and the equivalent rythymic dynamism, the constant tension and release, gets the ear “strung out.” It’s almost like adding heaps of sugar to a dessert or a soda. Not taking anything away from him, but it was, in my opinion, a calculated formula that was deliberately engineered to get people addicted to the Grateful Dead. His mo was basically to play every passing tone at every opportunity, and the above is why. (As I was typing this you started talking about Garcia ending on the root. Worse, he would often start phrases on the root of the change; a mortal sin…except that Phil often didn’t play the root on the changes, like literally every other bass player.)
You have nothing good to say so you resort to saying something negative. Only a fool would think Jerry Garcia didn't know what he playing. Grateful Dead is the most covered band out there, every town in every state has deadhead musicians and I've only heard 3-4 professional guitar players get close. Warren Haynes, Jimmy Herring, Trey Anastasio and John Mayer. All great guitar players who believe Jerry Garcia was worthy of their tributes. You probably also think Joe Biden is a good president and that Kamala would have been any better. 😂
Are there people listening to the Dead still? Never cared for their music…to me they have always sound like a band who couldn’t decide if they play country, blues, rockabilly or rock while not being good in any of those genres.
@ Who knows? You might be right, I feel the exact same way about Yankees. And by the way, I ain’t your son…the only son you might have is the one you had with your sister.
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Jeff? Remember when you had 200 subscribers? And I was one of them? Look at ya now! Great vid buddy.
Hey thanks! Yeah, I know. It seems like yesterday I was just trying to figure out where the record button was on my camera!
bro thats wild i was here at around 5-10k and i thought it was crazy he only had that amount of subs
As he progressed, he played triads more and more, the normal progression of learning the fretboard.
This is so kind of you to share this kind of top quality analysis thank you man, this is priceless for anyone wishing to improvise better I hope you reach the hearts of many ❤
My pleasure!
This video was playing in the background and I could sworn it was Saul Goodman talking about the Grateful Dead. You've got Odenkirk's voice!
I've never heard that one before, but I like it. I'm a huge Odenkirk fan!
Dude now I can’t unhear it 😂
Step 1 was the guitar scholarship of analyzing the solos and digesting it into 10 things to think about, but then next your personal style of discussing it and demonstrating it is so pleasant to listen to. Very cool video, thanks.
In reference to what you said about Jerry's 70's vs 90's playing...I think of it as pre and post coma. Pre come, he had a fiery, bluesy, quality that, at it's best (think Caution from 72 @Wembly, or Hard to Handle from Phil Zone) surpassed everyone. POst coma....that was gone. Like...utterly. His string bends were pretty much all awkward sounding, often flat, stiff, etc. But...he had an otherworldy, angelic quality that was far beyond anything from his precoma years. It's like when Gandalf the Grey was killed by the demon, and came back as Gandalf the White.
You mean not on heroin vs on heroin
@ no, I mean pre and post coma. He was clean, except lsd and shrooms in 89 and 90, which was the peak of his latwr ethereal style. And, he was on heroin in 77, a peak year
When Brent was spiraling so did Jerry. They were partners in crime so to speak. The H had them both. When Brent died Jerry wasn't the same IMO. And Vince welnick was almost intolerable but Bruce Hornsby was not a terrible inclusion. Brent and Jerry played off each other greatly
@ nah. Some of Jerry’s best moments post Brent. Less frequent sure. Heroin wasn’t the problem as much as obesity, chain smoking, constant crack smoking, and poor diet. At least according to all of Jerry’s physicians
@@wethepeoplelgb2167 not too mention, when Brent was "spiraling," Jerry was clean, for the most part. From Fall of 89 to spring 90, Garca was clean, and Brent was hurtling into the grave, so Im afraid your theory holds no water.
Great video, Jeff! I really appreciate you taking the time to break down Jerry's soloing.
Hey thanks!
Hi Jeff, thank you so much for this lesson. This is important work!!
Brilliant presentation! Great teacher!
Damn Jeff this was a heater! Great video thanks man!
Hey thanks and no prob!
Im so glad you mentioned 80's, 90's and JGB. I was lucky to be emblazened from the sounds he made from that time. Decades of me playing helps but when someone like yourself so accuratetly puts words to these skillsets he (Jerry) would use helps a bunch for someone like me who knows hardly anything about the theory of it. Of course I want to jump right in and sign up. Thank you for sharing your discoveries and having the challenge available to us.
Glad it was helpful. And glad I keep the part about the 80s and 90s. I almost cut that out!
if u know/learn only one thing about music theory and guitar, learn INTERVALS. intervals literally form the entire basis of western music and they are just numbers. so you can then understand, think of, describe, or analyze any music as the intervals that it is composed of be they chords, scales, or anything. progressions. It's all linked back to intervals. 8 notes per octave...start at A for example. A B C D E F G A...so if A is your Root note, B is the major 2nd interval, C the major third. D major 4th interval and so on. each whole step away from your root is an interval until you get back to the octave or 8th. The root is also called unison or first.
@@Sim-q9t appreciate that. Well said. It seems some do well with visual(shaping on fretboard) and others take to the other way. I need to find what works for me. I'm trying hard to know the WWHalf thing but it's hard. I've always been uncomfortable on ascending or desc. scales when I get to the B string. From G to B or B to G. Everything's smooth until I get to that area and seems that's when there's some jump or leap of faith place where I'm not confident.
I'm always rewarded when I finish on the root note because it's what I wanted and sounds good for my purposes but it doesn't always happen. I sometimes finish on a root note rather than the root note and it sounds good to me if there's any validity to that. I wish I could discern the difference. These examples are where your interval advice is so appeciated.The other thing is habits. Been playing for so long and like golf if you're not practicing the right or most efficient way I'm limited. ie. For the life of me my basic G chord is not done w the pinkie. This is limiting because getting to the 7th requires a lot more effort. Another example of my defects is say A chord on 5th fret. I cannot or haven't been comfortable doing it any other way than the bar method w the E shape. If you follow me I'm not wanting to use index and 2nd finger on high E and B strings. This has to be the result of always barring my chords to the point I'm wondering if it's a problem other than muscle memory. I do appreciate your reply. FYI, or for what it's worth I've strictly played acoustic guitar and what I'm using today. I'm aweful on electric because it's so much easier or rather I'm not used to the micro movements comparitively.
@@Sim-q9t I would like to add that when learning intervals, really concentrate on an internalize the emotional feelings of these intervals. That way instead of thinking what note fits here, think what feeling fits here. Hope that makes sense. It really opened up my playing when I started looking at it that way.
Thanks for sharing what you have discovered from your journey. From what you explained, it seems like Jerry is not rigidly stuck with the scale. Instead, he used it as skeleton but he used many notes adjacent to the notes on the scale.
Cheers from Indonesia.
This really illustrates the discovery of JG’s light for one who’s trying to look at it right 🙂
Signed up! Can’t wait
great vid!!!i used to also say my favorite era of the dead was the 70s...now my favorite era is 65-95...new sub from me ,my guy...again great vid!!!
Whenever I learn a Jerry solo, I start slow little phrases at a time you realize how good he really was and how it actually makes sense musically and melodically
The opening six minutes of Eyes of the World from 2/3/78 is an awesome Jerry showcase
So cool to know I'm not the only one who gets so much from Jerry's work.
This is a fantastic video, but I think how it really works is... Jerry is a fantastic songwriter, and he could make his guitar sing his songs for him. I think it's that simple.
hey man, cool channel. I love this Jerry analysis. I'm still in awe listening to Garcia !
Glad you enjoy it!
what an amazing video Jeff. Well done!!!!
Hey thanks!
Amazing video. Thanks for this.
Thanks and no prob.
Great stuff! Sounds good, buddy.
I really dig that strat.
Thanks! I just got that strat.
Thank you for your service🙌😎
If I remember Jerry was in a coma in 86? And had to relearn the guitar
Was in actual coma since birth
Yeah, he was out for a week-ish in July 86 and Merl Saunders had to help motivate him to keep up. he was back in some form with the JGB by October, so I assume it was an exponential improvement
Fantastic video!
Fave Jerry solos
Crazy fingers 9 21 82
Jack Straw Alpine 84
I’m early into this video but one thing I already see you doing is that Jerry would start with the melody and play around the changes.
I think a big influence on JGs soloing was that early on, besides being an average blues-based player, he used semi-acoustic guitars like Gibson ES335, which have a mushy warm sound, thanks to its humbucking pickups. Later he started playing the Alembic guitar with active single-coil pickups, like your strat, which had a much more responsive tone, and enabled Garcia to bring out many nuances of his playing which were lost on the semis. His artistic choices also developed in combination with his improving technique and the band becoming more adept at improvising long structures and following Garcia, who was the only soloist (if you don’t count the drum solos).
Nice thank you for your work
Awesome. Thanks ❤
Thank and no prob
This video is so fantastic. I'm such a deadhead. And by that I mean, there is just no band that puts me in a better mood than the Grateful Dead. I've been struggling to get better at Guitar for 30 years. I can't wait to dive into your program And really work Jerry's style from the ground up. My Guitar teacher tells me that I can make any song sound like the Grateful Dead is covering it for the first time. It's a hilarious diss, and I love him for it. It's just that I have listened to the Grateful Dead so many times that no matter what song I play I hear it through that filter and I end up playing it through that filter. I look forward to sounding like I play it better. I'm also psyched to check out your Bobby lessons because, you're right. His rhythm guitar style is so unique. Anyway, this comment is too long. Thank you and I look forward to supporting what you're doing.
Thanks and no prob. Glad the video was helpful.
Can you comment more on the cascading runs Jerry would do? They're such an iconic technique, but I rarely see people talk about them in detail.
great video
I really like that strat!
Thanks! I just got it and so far love it. Although, I'm sold on the pickups. I'm probably gonna swap those out.
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@@adammanning7862 Professional II Stratocaster
No. 10 came the closes to one that I would add- play rhythmically, almost percussively, make it funky. It’s not smooth and creamy, it’s bouncy and playful.
This is brilliant thank you
Great video! Would love to see something similar about Trey Anastasio at some point!
And can I learn all the solos you did?
Great video.
Thanks
@ As someone who has learned many Jerry solos, I couldn’t agree more. Some aspects were knew to me which was cool. I have seen many a Jerry guy in Dead bands who have hardly absorbed any of these aspects. Cheers bro!
Very informative .. thank you !
No prob!
Like a good bluegrass player, Jerry always knew how to play the vocal melody and do variations on it without thinking about scales.
yeah, but he was very aware of notes that mirror chord changes in various scales. Kind of like how Allan Holdsworth had plenty of notes in a certain neck position pattern, its especially important to be aware what fits the song structure.
A super important thing Jerry definitely did was not to copy other guitarists. He was inventing something new and unique to him that moved other people. The true definition of art!
It took half of my life to find out that trying to sound like somebody else is sabotaging your true self and killing your potential. Don’t waste your life being a fan. Be a creator. Try to be yourself and if you are a truly unique character, it will show in your playing. Some people got it, some don’t, but not imitating is the very first step into a bigger world.
NONE of the great guitarists were imitating. ALL of them brought something new and unique to the table. That’s the differenteren being a good guitarist and a great one.
Great video thanks 🙏
The funny thing about Jerry and the Dead is, it sounds great (most of the time), and can be quite complex over a whole show or album, but I can actually figure it out, and kind of jam along. And it makes normal sense, albiet some odd time signatures sometimes. Unlike trying to actually play Holdsworth, Malmsteen, and probably some other stuff I cant seem to follow what its doing, or even what key it seems to be in.
appreciate all the work you, and your team, put into producing your teaching content. can we take the hint that dire wolf and other tunes will soon be available in your catalog of offerings?
Yup. I tried to mostly pick songs that I either hadn't made a track for yet or wanted to redo. So I'm leveraging my time and can now make them better and faster since doing this 30 solo challenge.
great job
It's not what but how you play is definitely the most sage advice you can give anybody on playing guitar. Create your own sound and don't try to replicate anyone, including Jerry Garcia, because you'll just end up sounding like a cheap knock off. Great video - I gotta work more on triads and unique bends.
Excellent
Good job. Time is a demon and your memory the flames that torments. LIVE NOW FCK TOMORROW.
In the 2024 video in the beginning are you trying to show us your Jerry inspired playing? Or that you can copy the solo from 5/26/72 note for note?
Improvisation based on the melody: who knew! Dude!
Didnt Jimi H. bend up and down to notes a lot like that, or even more? I cant even begin to figure out how all the unique lines and phrases fit into the chords of the songs.
Do you offer transcriptions of these 30 solos?
Thanx for the perhaps greatest of all time pics showing just what type of cookie cutter he was cut!🎉of from🎉
Is youtube your full time job? Love ur videos
Hey thanks. Yes it is.
Awesome vid Jeff been watching you for years. I’m in music school and my professors say the same thing. Transcribing is the most valuable thing you can do. Are you in a dead band? Just wondering, would be a shame if not!
Hey thanks. Yeah, I wish they had transcribing software when I was in school. I had special CD player that would slow things down but definitely wasn't as useful. The first band I played guitar in was a Dead cover band but I only played one gig with them. Currently I don't gig. I got burned out from it and am focused on spending time with my kids. But I'll probably get the itch to get back out there at some point.
Just saying that is a very nice looking Strat!!
He discovered he had no personal life.
Casey Kasem….i knew your voice sounded familiar!
Jerry looks like a full grown adult in that boyhood picture
Lol, I was thinking the same thing. Jerry popped out self actualized😅
I like the format of your video here. You are well paced with the information and it seems very thoughtfully approached and presented. As for Jerry, I was never a big fan. I appreciated some of the Dead but it became laborious after a few songs to even listen to. For some reason, however, every single time I heard his lead work I thought of a merry go round, the kind with actual wooden horses and mirrors, all painted white with pretty lights all over it. I know that seems strange, at first, but think about the music that's played on those rides, it's very piano roll or pinwheel-ish, think old late 1800s / early 1900s carnival music. There must be something to that because his playing always brings up that imagery in my head. That music, to me, is mostly happy, upbeat, whimsical, playful, all the things that Jerry encapsulated as a musician. I will say I have always held him in high regard, even though I wasn't a big fan, because he has a solid and identifiable style and sound, maybe not as unique as BB King but it's relative to that. He's one of the top 10 most identifiable players ever. For that and that alone, yeah, Jerry was super cool and his style and techniques are well worth taking a closer look at. Also, thinking of the Dead, every true hippy I've ever met was just as needful of psych meds as the people locked up in rubber rooms, they were just on the happy end of that same spectrum and it never dawned upon anyone that flipping between bummed, ADHD and euphoria could be dangerous... unless you offered it your couch.
Jerry almost never hammered on....
More boing less woof, careful with pitch resolution
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4277! Wow, almost feels like cheating 😉-11/7
The first solo you say you did when the beginning of your Garcia deep dive is definitely just you copying a solo of his the last one shows a motion in improvisation
Thos is EVERY melodic player but imo it was jeeeys rone and syncopation
I think the first ramble on rose was better. Just sayin
Anything without Mickey hart was brilliant. Listen to the jam section on playing in the band in the Grateful Dead movie. This is why they are great. Most of their music is meh, like Zappa, but when they are on, they are on.
It's in my book that you cannot buy but I'll tell you anyway...every note is perfect, it's just how you fit it in.-DCB
Yeah, if you know the scale-tones really well, you have access to all 12 notes in any key, over any chord. It’s just a matter of placing chord and scale tones on the rhythmically strong points and surrounding those notes with chromatically on the weak points. The whole “Barry Harris chromatic scale” thing which I call bumblebeeing.
Did you just quote yourself
dude wasnt he mising part of his fingeer/s? no one will ever sound like him. sorry. u sound great though. great. idk........i can't play that stuff. props
Jerry basically used a drug addiction based formula. The constant chromaticism, and the equivalent rythymic dynamism, the constant tension and release, gets the ear “strung out.” It’s almost like adding heaps of sugar to a dessert or a soda. Not taking anything away from him, but it was, in my opinion, a calculated formula that was deliberately engineered to get people addicted to the Grateful Dead. His mo was basically to play every passing tone at every opportunity, and the above is why. (As I was typing this you started talking about Garcia ending on the root. Worse, he would often start phrases on the root of the change; a mortal sin…except that Phil often didn’t play the root on the changes, like literally every other bass player.)
That's 4,275 more than I plan to listen to.
I transcribed about 100 of his songs and just felt entitled to a poor persons liver, weird?
Wow... Can't believe it took him this many hours and notes to realize Garcia sucks.
LOLOLOL what an absolute waste of time. Well done. Jerry didnt even know what he was playing most of the time.
You have nothing good to say so you resort to saying something negative. Only a fool would think Jerry Garcia didn't know what he playing. Grateful Dead is the most covered band out there, every town in every state has deadhead musicians and I've only heard 3-4 professional guitar players get close. Warren Haynes, Jimmy Herring, Trey Anastasio and John Mayer. All great guitar players who believe Jerry Garcia was worthy of their tributes. You probably also think Joe Biden is a good president and that Kamala would have been any better. 😂
Are there people listening to the Dead still? Never cared for their music…to me they have always sound like a band who couldn’t decide if they play country, blues, rockabilly or rock while not being good in any of those genres.
They may not have been the best at what they did, but they were the only ones that did what they did
Nah son they mastered it all and let it flow from one to another seamlessly. Your mind has been closed too long so at this point you’re a lost cause
@ Who knows? You might be right, I feel the exact same way about Yankees. And by the way, I ain’t your son…the only son you might have is the one you had with your sister.
@@ce5243Dead sounds like a meandering lost soul
@@miraposajehano4309OK - you’ve trolled the Deadheads. You can go back to listening to Led Zeppelin. They appeal to almost everyone