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Thanks Davvy totally not one sided brah. Love from Minnesota man thanks for making my acoustic guiteer more than a decorative feature of my living room. Come by anytime for a joint and a jam!
Thanks for the awesome vid! The song is in B Mixolydian (key of E major). B Major Pentatonic and B Mixo sound great, use your flat 7 and use the chord tones. Awesome song! B minor pentatonic too for the blues feel.
Great vibe man. I especially like how you play with your own style and interpretation. Your lessons have been a nice find in this bizzaro world we are currently living in so thank you. Be well.
came for the dead. stayed for the dead. great teaching style and simple explanations. looking forward to other videos, I will even check out your channel due to the positive impression your vids give. thanks for the great content.
new guitar player who has never been much of a Dead fan, but the algorithm sent me to this song and I'm diggin' it
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Welcome to the most wonderful rabbit hole! We're all mad down here... Have a cup of tea and stay a while. And as they say, "If you get confused, listen to the music play!"
Great lesson and easy to follow. All the RU-vid lessons should be this good. You also obviously know the tune, can play guitar and really lay it out well. The dead sound is captured perfectly.
Great lesson Davy and you crack me up every time I watch one of your videos. It is fun to see someone who doesn’t take himself too seriously but who is a great musician with his own twist.
That was great, definitely got me to subscribe. I look forward to your future videos and will share them - my one request would be if you could end or begin lessons with a complete playthrough of the song! Really helps me when I'm learning to try and play along with that after I've have gotten the pieces down.
I don't think Hunter said the song was about a stripper. He said it was about a criminal, that someone else that is a criminal is associated with. The criminal was perhaps a pimp, not a stripper. Hunter said "The song, as I imagined it, is addressed to a pimp". The wagon is the paddy wagon. Maybe I meet you on the run, is on the run from the law. Don't tell them (the law) that you know me, is don't be a snitch. Robert Hunter himself revealed the meaning of “Sugaree” in the liner notes for the All Good Things box set released in 2004. Hunter said the phrase ‘just don’t tell them that you know me’ was prompted by something said by an associate in his pre-Dead days when his destitute circumstances found him fraternizing with a gang of criminals. The line "When they come to take you down, When they bring that wagon ’round, When they come to call on you, And drag your poor body down" Is referring to when they come to arrest you and take you away. "Shake it, shake it, Sugaree" is referring to shaking the charges. The line "You thought you was the cool fool, And never could do no wrong, You had everything sewed up tight, How come you lay awake all night long?, refers to the criminal being brazen and never thinking they would get caught. This verse " Well, in spite of all you gained, You still had to stand out in the pouring rain, One last voice is calling you, And I guess it’s time you go" Is showing the life of crime in the end is not prosperous, and in the end it is time to go to jail. Next line: Well shake it up now, Sugaree, I’ll meet you at the Jubilee, If that Jubilee don’t come, Maybe I’ll meet you on the run. It is a farewell to this friend, telling them that they will meet again when or if they are released from prison, or when the charges are dropped (shaken) and they get off. The use of “Jubilee” is a reference to the Old Testament - a time when slaves and prisoners are freed, and debts are forgiven. (Hunter often used biblical references). And if they never have the moment of Jubilee, they may meet somewhere down the line, when one or the other is on the run from the law.
Love your channel, playing my favorite songs has never been easier! However, I can't figure out the fingering for the A chord you're using in the pre-chorus :( Any help?
Hey Davvy! My name is DaveE. I just found your channel and I can't thank you enough for what your doing man! My guitar playing has been dead for awhile now. No pun intended. Picking it up and playing the same old shit. Your lessons are straightforward and easy to understand...and frickin hilarious. Looking forward to every one of them and becoming a better player
Thank you so much for a great lesson! You are funny and engaging, and by being so, convey the necessary information in a seamless manner that makes it easy to understand. You are a great teacher, a great guitarist! Have you taught "Friend Of the Devil"? That would be an awesome lesson. Thanks again!
Thanks for the kind words! Below I’ll put the link to my Jerry Garcia Rig Rundown video where I go over my pedals and setup a bit. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bihku0aG6lw.html
hey man, new to the channel, definitely picking up what you're putting down, appreciate the knowledge. Where's toby, or is it like a superman thing? love the lesson, thanks!! nice to have one friend at least...
Welcome to the fam! Davvy teaches Dead lessons and does the live jam on fridays. Toby hosts Loose Beats and he and Davvy do a Monday stream together and a podcast called A Drink & A Joint. Explore the channel a bit and get to know us!
hello davy, i have an acoustic guitar with the same design on the headstock. i was told it was made to the specs of a martin. i know little about the company. do you know anything about the brand?
Sadly I'm not a deadhead...but my long lost lost love is...and In our intermingling...this became our song...the one that got away leaves a stain on your brain...played this one time just chords for her...but I got I got better and wanted something for an open mic
OK -- don't know that much Dead "lore". But how do we know Sugaree was a stripper? Is it the "shake it" line? I'm just wondering if there's something else in the song itself that suggests this.
I like your videos. Thanks. B mixo not B maj (therefore E maj) . Also the song is not necessarily about a stripper. It starts talking about a hanging, and he asking her to cover up his involvement in a crime.
Bill Joel , no the song is not in C# m , although the chords fit, it is B maj mixo... starts on Bmaj and that is the key centre... the parent is usually referred to as Emaj ... which the same chords as C#m
@@davidoo12345 I don't think the key is "B maj mixo" as you say, because one of the chords in the song is A Maj, and the A chord in the key of B maj is A#. Isn't the key in E maj, as all of the chords in the song, including the A chord fall into the key?
