HOW TO PLAY ST.STEPHEN | Grateful Dead Lesson | Play Dead 

You, your playing, your teaching, this entire video, makes me wish RU-vid had a LOVE button. Thank you!

Word of encouragement for any newbies out there. I've been playing guitar for a long time, but I pretty much played rhythm the whole time. I would write or play simple licks at times, but never really tried lead. I decided I wanted to expand a bit and this song is one of my favorites. I was frustrated at first, but being an old bastard I know how these things work. I broke down the parts that gave me trouble and repeated them slowly and correctly until I felt I could speed it up. Honestly it took me a couple of days just repeating those parts and slowly integrating into the parts that didn't give me any trouble. I played those parts slowly and smoothly, slowing down and speeding up as I saw appropriate anytime I was on my couch hands free. I actually hadn't picked up the guitar in a few months, so my fingers were sore the first two days. I keep thinking of a phrase I learned from a friend I used to martial arts with, slow is smooth and smooth is fast

I rented that movie back in the 90’s and dosed over a weekend. That guy at the beginning made us laugh for hrs!

there is soooo much value in this play dead series. fucking love it!!

I love the intro scene. “St.Stephen!!” Thank you for this video and time spent to it. Woot! God Bless you.

Finally. One of mayer’s best tunes 😉

Thank you Davvy Its Diwali in india and this the best gift i received. I wish health and vitality for everybody. I had scrolled youtube for hours for a st.stephen lesson but never found any. Thank you for bringing this to life. Take care brother

'live dead' was the soundtrack for senior year high school (70/71) ... those songs are 'chemically' etched into the dna .. and what a splendid dissection down to the sequenced strands .. and darn funny too ..

“Just do this” followed by an absolutely face melting solo 😂 That was beautiful and inspiring man

Probably my favourite Dead song ,played with love and dedication.Thanks man you've just made my day and given me weeks of playing to get this one down.

The one and only St. Stephen. Thanks Davvy, There is nothing like playing St. Stephen. Enjoyed the lesson brother.

St. Stephen! Looking forward to this one. Thanks for the series! Love these videos.

Been waiting for this since the first Play Dead episode! Thanks a lot, stellar work here, Davvy

Dude! You shredded that solo!!🎸🌹☠️⚡️♓️☮️

Thanks for posting this lesson. Great run through!

davvy! you’re the man!! thank u + sending love your way ☮️

I love this song. Thanks. You're a great teacher and love the humor. One of my favorite versions is Oakland Show in October 1976. I think it was a Dick's Picks like 33 or something. Jerry starts with Alfred Hitchcock theme then the band flows into St. Stephen, then the flows into Not Fade Away where Jerry just tares it up and takes everyone on the adventure.

Thanks you so much for this! Love this song; dropping 5 in the bucket next live stream.

Oh boy! I've been waiting for this one. Thanks my dude. Love you Davvy!

Thanks for another great lesson, Davvy !

One of my favorites! Thanks man great lesson ✌🏼

Great lesson - thanks Davvy ! Gotta say I love the part where you finish first part of intro and say "it's not too bad...well...it took me all day..." HAHAHAHA. That's when I knew I was in trouble ✌

That was an awesome lesson, dude!

Holy shit, that solo in the end left me breathless

I JUST GOT THE NOTI, IM HOING HOME AND LEWRNING THISSSS

Amazing stuff man thank you!

Thanks Brother Davvy

This is a Beast, Thank you Dave-O

excellent 42 minutes of davvy.. i'm exhausted too LSD flashback to 80s starting at 25:44

This is so exciting, thanks man!

This is the best thing on the internet today

Yeahhh! Brother thank you for this masterpice

How about some acoustic gweetar lessons?

I love this series! thank you so much! May I make a request/suggestion? How about cosmic charlie?

Thanks buddy...I was actually able to absorb that and play it... Thanks for struggling thru that with us...

Thank you Davvy! 💀⚡️

thanks!!

All time favorite Dead song!

Awesome. thanks again Davvy! Funny shit at around the 7 minute mark reminds me of that guy from beetlejuice with the shrunk head lmao 🤣

Great job! … and patience.

Thanks man totally appreciate the time you put into that. Great lesson. NFA! (but seriously, can you do NFA)

You are a legend

Finnaly my tune!

Yessssss finally

The beginning with the guys arguing about the movie was so funny

Davvy, thanks for the lessons! When you strum chords in a GD song, what method do you use to work in muted strums? Is it with the drum rhythm, just how you feel with no particular structure, or what?

Back in the 70's when there was no internet and no Davvy, we had to sit in front of an old stereo and play St. Stephen track over and over to try to figure out the chords. Never got them right. Did I add we only had pitch pipes to tune our guitars?

ST. STEPHENNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!

Is that THE John Williams, composer extraordinaire for movies!

Right on. I gotta find someone to jam with

Fantastic. Thank you. ⚡✌💥🐢🧸🌈❤🌍🌞🙏

I love your new guitar Birdy! However, for these lessons it would cool if you could use a guitar with inlays so it’s easier to watch where your fingers are. I know you have dots on the side, so it doesn’t matter from your perspective. Either way, thanks for lessons!

Any chance you could do Jerry band version of Lay Down Sally?

Yup time go rewatch the movie

Another awesome vid, but needs more reverb!

Without inlays, it's slightly harder to follow things on the neck. Yes, tabs are ok but visual support on how teacher moves, mental shapes and stuff, is also important. That guitar is absolutely gorgeous but maybe for these kinds of lessons would it be a bit better with the wolf?

The intro are getting better loll

Nice

Country garden? Isn’t it “country *garland* in the wind and the rain”?

Great tutorial! However I think moving forward you should have the chords charted out on the video with the specific fingering, it would make it much easier to follow along. Thank you!

But for real if you read this comment can you hit the like button? This one was a big one y’all!

Did u go to Hollywood Bowl21 Davey?

EPIC!

anyone know what specific phred model that guitar is? Is it a custom or something? I can't find it anywhere, it's a cool body shape

Help on the way/slipknot! Next?

New subscriber - can you tell me more about the guitar you are playing??

How have not done Sugar Magnolia

I was starting to wonder what shaggy was up to nowadays, how's scoob?

“St. Stepheeeeeeen!”

I love that sexy guitar bro.

fucking best RU-vid channel !!

Has anyone seen the bridge

It was written about Phil Lesh’s Saint Bernard. Frfr

Also Stephen Gaskin…..

Next, can you teach me that the stove is hot?

As much as I love the Dead - and as much as I love the Live Dead version of St. Stephen (and the Eleven) - your sarcastic contributions are a bit on the "too much" side.

Somebody stole his inlays

And sweet guitar. wtf is that thing?

15 minutes in and my finger tips are already telling me to fuck off. At some point this will stop being an issue I hope 🤞

This fickin giy rips

Greatful Dead suck. Lame elevator music.