Learn to play guitar confidently, whether you are alone on your couch or in front of an audience. Anyone can learn to find their own voice on the guitar, but it helps to have solid guidance along the way. I've made my living in and around the Boston music scene for almost two decades. I've played with tons of bands across virtually every musical style (from reggae to country to funk to classical and so on) and have taught countless students of all ages and skill levels to achieve their musical aspirations, whatever they are.
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no better teacher than jeff when it comes to dead tunes and style! if any of you are pondering paying for lessons and you like this music it's a bargain.
Jeff,something about the way you presented the triads made it finally “ click” for me!!! I love that feeling❤ , I’m going to send this to my friends, thanks for all your hard work, you are a great teacher ,always interesting and fun!!
Billy Strings had his favorite lead guitarist, bass guitarist, and rhythm guitarist play at his wedding -- Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool, and ... Bob Weir.
Weir added so much movement to the music. That's why I really like the '70-72 era. WIth the single drummer, with Bill's light mostly snare rat-a-tat style and Keith's piano more restrained just adding little bits, you could really hear the interaction of Weir, Garcia, and Lesh. I love the later stuff too but as the piano got louder and the drums got really full, so many times Weir's subtlety got lost in the mix.
Who ? Oh right no I'm thick I'm from UK bud never heard of bob who what's his upbringing oh no straight to his style nice one DOH I'm going to investigate who this guy is and I'll be back to watch later
Very well played and presented, impressive its funny isn’t it, after years and countless hours of playing, we end up back where we started, play out of the chord shapes, play the melody, stick to the most fundamental elements you can, and one more thing, play like your life depends on it
After forty years of playing, I have wound up just relying on what my ear tells me, thinking intervalically, and in terms of how to construct melodic ideas. Chords and scales never *consciously* come to mind at all. The harmony of the moment tells the ears where the fingers need to go.
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This is a great video. I was working out how to move the C and G chords around the neck and figured I'd have to break them up into different pieces and fit them where they made sense just like you said. Thought to myself that I'm all screwed up and there's definitely a better way to do it but you reiterated exactly what I was thinking and figuring out which helped confirm that I'm on the right track, thank you.
This is EXACTLY why most of your local GD cover bands aren't fully "there." Every time I see a local GD cover band it's usually the Bobby guy who isn't quite taking the music into that special place. They just don't have the musical vocabulary to make it interesting and the secret sauce is weakened.
weir said that he decided to play the guitar the way mcoy tyner played the piano .. as both we backing up great solosists .. garcia and coltrane .. he listened to a lot of jazz records ...
After hearing him loop Bobby's part in isolation...I thought the exact same thing-just add some thin distortion and climb up chromatically on the B string, and you have STP's Plush!...also, their main riff from Interstate Love Song is almost an exact rip off of the cadence riff in Jim Croce's I Got A Name...check that out!
I don't really play much rock stuff, or think about rock much, though I love the Dead. I mostly play bluegrass (where the Dead came from!), celtic and a little bit of jazz. But this is a really good video, loaded with a lot of stuff. Quartal harmony even--good stuff! Bob Weir=McCoy Tyner is an interesting parallel that makes sense to me.
If you listen to the Hard to Handle recordings that's a great example of Bob's talent. Bob always took the first solo Jerry took the second. I hate to say this but when Brent joined the band Bob's playing changed imo. It made him play different just listen to the tapes.
Bobby McGee is definitely one of the best rhythm guitarists out there. Sometimes I wish he'd turn up his guitar a little more because he tends to get lost in the mix sometimes. What a great band, everybody understood their role perfectly. On certain nights it was as if they had all communicated telepathically to form one big collective consciousness. When you listen to stuff like that, it's easy to get lost in the sauce. Because that's really what it's all about. The sauce. It's a... 'space', so to speak. It's something that everybody is capable of tapping into. I guess some people call it the 'flow state', but I prefer 'lost in the sauce' ALSO, those chords you were explaining towards the beginning... Mind Left Body
Absolutely wonderful! That E maj over g# thing is an Inversion of the chord. It's a concept they teach music majors in college. First inversion is over the third, second inversion is over the fifth, third inversion is over the seventh, I think you get it. It goes with all that Bach and Beethoven stuff. But fits in with everything we're doing now.
Bob’s playing evolved into these as sweet as a blue raspberry jolly rancher licks circa ‘73 - ‘74. After he and Pigpen were “fired” from the band in 1969, Bob went to the woodshed and really developed this style which was the perfect fit. These licks fit right in between Jerry’s playing and Phil’s playing. Able to play these tasty licks without stepping on anyone else’s toes.
He doesn't just know about harmony moves, and chord grips in position, and some system to connect these - he knows the actual function of mentioned harmony in context. His fingers learned the dance how to pull the music out of his guitars by following his ears... listening is where it's at. Even just to oneself, for a start, lol
