Good to see Michael on here. I think Garcia is a much more important figure than many in the guitar community give him credit for. Which you guys would do more lesson videos too.
This literally just happened to me. Spent my whole life playing bluesy in the same key, riff oriented. Got into the Grateful Dead and boom, opened up the whole fretboard. Great video.
Michael is the greatest. He does such a great job of breaking things down so it’s much easier to understand. His channel is so great, and full of tons of stuff like this.
The future generation is so blessed to have you puttng out this knowledge so that the grand legacy can continue on. Not to mention when we all get old/er we will have people still playing the best tunes that ever were.
I've been playing guitar for a long while and mostly learned through listening to The Dead. I mostly have no idea what notes i'm playing but everything you said makes total sense and might throw me down the rabbit hole of actually "learning" the fret board. Thank a ton for the awesome video and giving Jerry and the dead the credit on their talents as they deserve.
TH-cam guitar lessons are creating a wealth of knowledge and exposure to incredible teaching styles. I am in the process of signing up in a rotational process with you Tomo and Paul. So thankful for your enthusiasm and open mindedness to so many musicians, and helping so many of us find our tone by first learning the essentials that make us better musicians.
Hey! I LOVE the Dead and Garcia. Until exactly a year ago...I been playing the same ole same ole RnB phrases in a few bands for a while feelin a lil flat...until I stumbled across Dead vids on YT - Mayer and Garcia. It was Bertha and I was floored - a jazz approach in RnRoll - playing through the changes. Singing melodies and a crystalline flowing flute - like guitar tone over great grooves. And...the lyrics are often about the great joys and sorrows of life amidst the chaos of everything. I have been woodshedding for moths now utterly inspired. Thank you Michael :))) You are a gifted dude. BTW I ALSO woodshedded on Bluegrass too and utilise many runs in tunes such as Franklin's Tower.
Great video! When I was first learning guitar fifty years ago I accidentally found myself sounding a bit like Garcia but didn't know why. This helps a lot because I was focusing on the third and the sixth. There's a lot of Dicky Betts in this too!
Great info here! Especially loud outdoor concert soloing. Pied Piper loud. Bringing the people towards you - jam band! Also...(Very Dickey Betts major pentatonic). I also love Gerry's outside psychedelic soling which taps into his latin rhythm's (right hand phrasing) while playing all the notes of the tonic - but the one! He implies the tonic so amazingly! and you're right, lands on the third a lot! Thanks for this great lesson. Enjoy going outside further this year if you want? Gerry ! ! !
Jery does a lot of 3 fret walkups within the scale range. So instead of going 5 to 7, he will quickly walk up and throw the 6 fret in. Just like Altheas opening, only faster...nice lesson. Thanks sir
This guy is the easiest to learn off on the internet this is the easiest way to get into improvising you can sound good straight off the bat what a great teacher
I am a tough critic and I am sorry for that, I will just thank you for giving lessons and insights whilst keeping us all (your audience) smiling and thinking about the good times. cheers Michael!
FANTASTIC premier performance, Michael! Great tutorial, LOVE The Dead, mostly the guitar style of Garcia (I know, I'm the ONLY one!). ;D Thanks for breaking it down.
Deadhead 4EVER! Love them...especially Anthem of the sun album..and listening to Box of Rain in some of my personally darkest days absolutely changed my life. . .Some people just hear a band playing country music.But it is sooo much more . Not everybody gets it.But those who do REALLY get it!! Nice to see you spreading the word....Great stuff!! Really enjoyed this.Thanks!
You've been playing for so long and you "just" discovered Garcia "about a year ago"??!! I'm not sure whether to slap you or hug you. Congratz. Your universe of endless creativity just opened.
About 5 years ago I realized that I needed to really play the changes. I felt like I could't even play guitar for about 2 years... lol. But it was well worth it. I agree 3rd hunting for sure. I also found it very useful to learn my scales up and down the neck in 3rd and 6th intervals. Another very useful thing I learned was say it was an A, D, Em, D progression, I would think A major pentatonic, D major pentatonic, and E minor pentatonic, over each chord
I have been learning from Jerry, Phil, and Bobby since the late 1960's. There were always some side tracking adventures here and there. By the time "Captain Trips" was released I was already well acquainted with the British Invasion guitarists. I also found Gary Duncan to be an excellent improvisor but what really opened my eyes to Jerry's soloing approach was listening to Clarence White's bluegrass solos.
This video is exactly what I was looking for but I spent the entire thing mesmerized by the quality that guitar. The sound. The look of it. Those damn bird inlays. Jeeeez. Ok now I go back and pay attention lol
Fantastic video and playing! Always glad to hear great players giving Jerry some love. I also hear a bit of that other jamband icon from Vermont in your playing... have any videos on him?
Michael is the best. Everyone should subscribe to his channel. An unexpected benefit to being a subscriber is that I have discovered tons of unbelievable artists I’ve never heard of before thanks to his channel.
He flies all over the fretboard then says "look for thirds." Awesome vid. Totally explained. I can quit my job now because I can solo just like Jerry now.
Great lesson! For Franklin’s Tower on the album version from Blues for Allah, Jerry actually plays mostly the A Pentatonic scale with chromatics and some arpeggios.. but I took your course on Jamplay and think this is an awesome approach and I am getting much better as a result so thanks!
Another cool trick they both do in Althea is play with that third of e by by bending from the minor third G to G# especially going into the chromatic movement to the Bm.
Thank you for the lesson. Improvising is like talking to a woman..,you know what you want to say, but through bravery and chance, the words you end up saying are not always what you expected, but sometimes end up better than you thought.
Great info and a KEY reason, the solos were never the same. And the same song, had a different feel every night. You could listen to 10 Althea's and ALL are different.
i heard rick beato mention jerry once (not that i watch his channel that much) but when he mentioned him he called jerry "the legend of legends", people who know about jerry know...he is maybe the most misunderstood guitar legend
MichaelPalmisano you and I are two peas in a pod🙌The main key of "Althea" key is A Major. You would TECHNICALLY use B Dorian, as the song starts on the ii. There is a great song lineage for this trick, a famous one of which is Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance." If you listen to live versions of "Althea," Jerry in particular was very fond of climbing A Major in his famous slurred sequences. Great lesson, and a fantastic example of using key centered and chord tone soloing.
Love this. Once you know where the "3rds" are, how do you determine the rest of the notes that fit? I.E. is it a scale, or just hunt and peck and figure out what notes work (with each chord)?
I check in here because I am not a music sophisticate in terms of correct descriptive language. I more or less let it wash over me but the playing...the playing is the demonstration of everything theoretical & all the sequences are tasteful & have that "I wish I could PLAY that quality!"
So much back and forth between GD and ABB I know they played together a few times and Dickie wrote “Ramblin’ Man” after listening to Franklin’s Tower I believe?
The chord connection makes sense to me and I think I do this while playing naturally, but damn it’s hard to process this while you play. Do you have any practice techniques for this? I’m thinking maybe creating a roadmap ahead of time of the notes and try to come up with riffs that connect them synchronized with the chord changes.
So did I catch this correctly? The G# mention at the end, we would think G# because we are thinking in A major over the A chord rather than A Mixo scale in general?
Just wanted to say I'm taking Michael's Jerry Garcia course on guitargate.com. If this was too fast for you, he really takes it in small steps in the course. $10... You can't go wrong!
Wait so you hit the third on the change of the chords? What about on the up beats cause I noticed Garcia starts on the up beat a lot of the time so is he using the third as a suggestion of the chord?
Triads!!
Good to see Michael on here. I think Garcia is a much more important figure than many in the guitar community give him credit for. Which you guys would do more lesson videos too.
This literally just happened to me. Spent my whole life playing bluesy in the same key, riff oriented. Got into the Grateful Dead and boom, opened up the whole fretboard. Great video.
Same
@@SeanEXtommy Same!
Same here. Fell in love with Jerry
Same. Just bought some Grateful Dead material to learn. Because, of my lack of “tasteful” playing.
same
Listening to Dead for a year.... that puts you at about 4 songs all the way through
that's when you earn your first grilled cheese
I lived on those $1 grilled cheese sandwiches sold on Shakedown Street for one whole spring tour.
I mean. Kinda :)
who's got my veggie burrito
Thats exactly 2 dark stars.
Michael is the greatest. He does such a great job of breaking things down so it’s much easier to understand. His channel is so great, and full of tons of stuff like this.
Eric Carpenter thank you Eric!!
Great lesson - one of the most concise deconstructions of JG’s playing I’ve seen.
Great lesson Michael! I will not soon forget to “be a third hunter.”
Chris Paton Never!! Thirds for life!
Brilliant! So much cool content coming out with regards to the Dead’s music. Wish I could have my 10,000 hours back when I was a bored teenager.
svsugvcarter well, do it now. I am!!
Me too
The future generation is so blessed to have you puttng out this knowledge so that the grand legacy can continue on. Not to mention when we all get old/er we will have people still playing the best tunes that ever were.
I've been playing guitar for a long while and mostly learned through listening to The Dead. I mostly have no idea what notes i'm playing but everything you said makes total sense and might throw me down the rabbit hole of actually "learning" the fret board. Thank a ton for the awesome video and giving Jerry and the dead the credit on their talents as they deserve.
Same. Can play and keep up with the dead records, but ask me to explain what I’m doing in technical terms I’m at a complete loss
This might be the most important lesson I've watched on youtube! Time will tell. Thanks
Brandon. Yes! Thank you Brandon!
So cool to see you on here! Keep it up man, we all appreciate what you do
Thanks for what you do brother! The enthusiasm, appreciation and execution you bring is infectious!
Thanks so much for this video. I have overlooked Garcia all these years and you have finally opened my eyes.
TH-cam guitar lessons are creating a wealth of knowledge and exposure to incredible teaching styles. I am in the process of signing up in a rotational process with you Tomo and Paul. So thankful for your enthusiasm and open mindedness to so many musicians, and helping so many of us find our tone by first learning the essentials that make us better musicians.
I love how you break this down! Awesome video lesson!
Hey! I LOVE the Dead and Garcia. Until exactly a year ago...I been playing the same ole same ole RnB phrases in a few bands for a while feelin a lil flat...until I stumbled across Dead vids on YT - Mayer and Garcia. It was Bertha and I was floored - a jazz approach in RnRoll - playing through the changes. Singing melodies and a crystalline flowing flute - like guitar tone over great grooves. And...the lyrics are often about the great joys and sorrows of life amidst the chaos of everything. I have been woodshedding for moths now utterly inspired. Thank you Michael :))) You are a gifted dude. BTW I ALSO woodshedded on Bluegrass too and utilise many runs in tunes such as Franklin's Tower.
Great stuff Michael. Congrats on your premier guitar lesson for Premier Guitar.
Congratulations on your premier guitar lesson! Thanks. Great into!
Great lesson, loved this, can't wait to see more.
Thank You for this and we all think about scales UNFORTUNATELY.
This was a great lesson and we will never know Jerry’s magic
That is an absol STUNNING lesson! Many thanks.
Larry's tunes thanks Larry!!
Thank you so much, Michael!!
Great video! When I was first learning guitar fifty years ago I accidentally found myself sounding a bit like Garcia but didn't know why. This helps a lot because I was focusing on the third and the sixth. There's a lot of Dicky Betts in this too!
great lesson! love your energy!
Great info here! Especially loud outdoor concert soloing. Pied Piper loud. Bringing the people towards you - jam band! Also...(Very Dickey Betts major pentatonic). I also love Gerry's outside psychedelic soling which taps into his latin rhythm's (right hand phrasing) while playing all the notes of the tonic - but the one! He implies the tonic so amazingly! and you're right, lands on the third a lot! Thanks for this great lesson. Enjoy going outside further this year if you want? Gerry ! ! !
How did I not see this video until now? MOAR PALMISANO + DEAD!
Congrats on the new gig
Jery does a lot of 3 fret walkups within the scale range. So instead of going 5 to 7, he will quickly walk up and throw the 6 fret in. Just like Altheas opening, only faster...nice lesson. Thanks sir
Brown eyed women comes to mind
totally. lots of chromaticism, especially on ascending lines. and lots of moving 4-note cells around.
Awesome! So glad Michael is with PG!
I saw Jerry Garcia play live 65 times... Good stuff..
This guy is the easiest to learn off on the internet this is the easiest way to get into improvising you can sound good straight off the bat what a great teacher
I am a tough critic and I am sorry for that, I will just thank you for giving lessons and insights whilst keeping us all (your audience) smiling and thinking about the good times. cheers Michael!
Really great lesson. I'm embarrassed to say after many years of playing I didn't see this thanks!
Great lesson! I'd love to see more along these lines. Very well done :)
Michael ... I think it’s about time you had some of those “Third Hunter” Tee Shirts made up!
Zeke Reed yup.
Here it is www.behance.net/gallery/108736203/Third-Hunter ;)
I was so happy when I saw your face on the thumbnail and then, Premier Guitar? Good for you man! Well deserved, and amazing lesson. 🤟🏻
Beny Schon thank you Beny!
FANTASTIC premier performance, Michael! Great tutorial, LOVE The Dead, mostly the guitar style of Garcia (I know, I'm the ONLY one!). ;D Thanks for breaking it down.
Deadhead 4EVER! Love them...especially Anthem of the sun album..and listening to Box of Rain in some of my personally darkest days absolutely changed my life. . .Some people just hear a band playing country music.But it is sooo much more . Not everybody gets it.But those who do REALLY get it!! Nice to see you spreading the word....Great stuff!! Really enjoyed this.Thanks!
I was telling someone today that there is jazz,rock, progressive and The Dead and there is nothing like them!
I so love this dude!
Very insightful! Thanks.
Keep bringing the Michael Palmisano videos, this guy is the Shizzle!
You've been playing for so long and you "just" discovered Garcia "about a year ago"??!! I'm not sure whether to slap you or hug you. Congratz. Your universe of endless creativity just opened.
Jason Marck I feel the same way :)
Great lesson. Did not expect to hear the word ‘behooves’- an added bonus.
David Canes yup. You’re welcome.
Congrats Michael you're an official Dead Head. You've been touched by the magic that would appear from time to time.
Very cool, thanks! I never thought of it this way before. I subscribed.
About 5 years ago I realized that I needed to really play the changes. I felt like I could't even play guitar for about 2 years... lol. But it was well worth it. I agree 3rd hunting for sure. I also found it very useful to learn my scales up and down the neck in 3rd and 6th intervals. Another very useful thing I learned was say it was an A, D, Em, D progression, I would think A major pentatonic, D major pentatonic, and E minor pentatonic, over each chord
man, love those inlays.
I have been learning from Jerry, Phil, and Bobby since the late 1960's. There were always some side tracking adventures here and there. By the time "Captain Trips" was released I was already well acquainted with the British Invasion guitarists. I also found Gary Duncan to be an excellent improvisor but what really opened my eyes to Jerry's soloing approach was listening to Clarence White's bluegrass solos.
This video is exactly what I was looking for but I spent the entire thing mesmerized by the quality that guitar. The sound. The look of it. Those damn bird inlays. Jeeeez. Ok now I go back and pay attention lol
Lol sounds like you need a PRS
What a great insight! thanks Michael, I will try this
Fantastic video and playing! Always glad to hear great players giving Jerry some love. I also hear a bit of that other jamband icon from Vermont in your playing... have any videos on him?
best lesson i saw on youtube!
Great lesson!
Michael is the best. Everyone should subscribe to his channel. An unexpected benefit to being a subscriber is that I have discovered tons of unbelievable artists I’ve never heard of before thanks to his channel.
Jeremy Gervasini that’s what it’s all about!! Thanks!
Hey!! That's my guitar teacher!! Guitar gate for life!!!
Justin Black yessssssss
Great Video! Thanks so much!
Awesome 👏 More of this ..⚡️🎸⚡️
I'm stuck in riffland. So frustrating! I'm moving to third hunter land. Thank you for the video.
He flies all over the fretboard then says "look for thirds." Awesome vid. Totally explained. I can quit my job now because I can solo just like Jerry now.
wow great lesson
great stuff
great playing.
Great lesson! For Franklin’s Tower on the album version from Blues for Allah, Jerry actually plays mostly the A Pentatonic scale with chromatics and some arpeggios.. but I took your course on Jamplay and think this is an awesome approach and I am getting much better as a result so thanks!
Just for using the word “behooves”, subscribed!
Preaching the gospel brother
Love the sound! Unfortunately there will never be another Jerry Garcia he’s one of the few guitarists you can tell just by his sound
Another cool trick they both do in Althea is play with that third of e by by bending from the minor third G to G# especially going into the chromatic movement to the Bm.
Thank you for the lesson. Improvising is like talking to a woman..,you know what you want to say, but through bravery and chance, the words you end up saying are not always what you expected, but sometimes end up better than you thought.
Nice work
Beautiful guitar, got my eye on it only found one online rest sold out.
Great info and a KEY reason, the solos were never the same. And the same song, had a different feel every night. You could listen to 10 Althea's and ALL are different.
Thank you
i heard rick beato mention jerry once (not that i watch his channel that much) but when he mentioned him he called jerry "the legend of legends", people who know about jerry know...he is maybe the most misunderstood guitar legend
BRILLIANT lesson. ps. I would kill for these backing tracks.
I was hating the other day but this lessons rocks.
MichaelPalmisano you and I are two peas in a pod🙌The main key of "Althea" key is A Major. You would TECHNICALLY use B Dorian, as the song starts on the ii. There is a great song lineage for this trick, a famous one of which is Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance." If you listen to live versions of "Althea," Jerry in particular was very fond of climbing A Major in his famous slurred sequences. Great lesson, and a fantastic example of using key centered and chord tone soloing.
Jord Hepner thanks Jord! Agreed!
Love this. Once you know where the "3rds" are, how do you determine the rest of the notes that fit? I.E. is it a scale, or just hunt and peck and figure out what notes work (with each chord)?
Just found your channel Subscribed
11:11 Don't worry, Jerry's done it too. Love this lesson, come back to it often when I need a little more discipline with the changes...
I love how you are understanding the Grateful Dead. I know it's a process. The community is amazing. So I thank you!
I just watched your They Loved Each Other reaction. If you're ever in Western NY hit me up, we have a big community.
That's pretty good. Way to keep Jerry alive
Garcia was a super duper melodic genius-
would love to see you break down some of the phrasing and rhythmic stuff as well, thats one thing thats super hard to cop
Matthew Esser oh it’s gonna happen. One step at a time.
I check in here because I am not a music sophisticate in terms of correct descriptive language. I more or less let it wash over me but the playing...the playing is the demonstration of everything theoretical & all the sequences are tasteful & have that "I wish I could PLAY that quality!"
When connecting chord tones and connecting 3rds of chords you're playing "outside" the Key Center and Scale?
So much back and forth between GD and ABB I know they played together a few times and Dickie wrote “Ramblin’ Man” after listening to Franklin’s Tower I believe?
I need to learn some riffs.
Very Warren Haynes ish..
And ABB as well. Right up my alley
The chord connection makes sense to me and I think I do this while playing naturally, but damn it’s hard to process this while you play. Do you have any practice techniques for this? I’m thinking maybe creating a roadmap ahead of time of the notes and try to come up with riffs that connect them synchronized with the chord changes.
I love how this grateful dead soloing style video leads off with a non grateful dead or anywhere close to jerry solo style on franklins
Correct, can't find Jerry anywhere...sad!
"How to play like Trey Anastasio playing a grateful dead song"
Fixed that for you
Hey Michael, you going to have some Jerry patterns in there?
Fucking A brother ❤ I could listen to that intro forever
So did I catch this correctly? The G# mention at the end, we would think G# because we are thinking in A major over the A chord rather than A Mixo scale in general?
Just wanted to say I'm taking Michael's Jerry Garcia course on guitargate.com. If this was too fast for you, he really takes it in small steps in the course. $10... You can't go wrong!
GOAT
Wait so you hit the third on the change of the chords? What about on the up beats cause I noticed Garcia starts on the up beat a lot of the time so is he using the third as a suggestion of the chord?
David gilmour next 🤩
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