Dude! At the beginning, you are staring at the same light Trey does! NICE! :) :) :) I remember years ago at a show in Missoula, they were playing chess with the crowd, and to make the move that night, the audience member who got to "make the chess move" had to guess what all the songs played had in common. Key of D was the answer. I flashed to that. Thanks for posting all these.
When I tell my friends about "stitch method", I reference the power of five video and now this. It moves the jam if you can implement the method. Trey is my influence and I am sticking with you for all of your knowledge on guitar. Love all your vids. "Heavy Things" your doing.
My dad hung out with Page McConnell in high school，so whenever you mention phish，I always think “huh my dad knows those people” anyway great lesson， love your channel.
I'm here for the Blues lessons and the GD lessons, but there are great nuggets in every lesson. Thanks for your lessons they are quite good! You explain things very well.
I showed up here for the Dead & Phish (so don't forget us!). but is have stayed because the lessons are great and I am learning new stuff - thanks Stich!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This is the second lesson of yours I've watched and as some of the others have touched on, you're awesome. I always listen to the New years 93 Hood in absolute awe. Sure I can mess around over the chord progression but it sounds nothing like Trey. Finally someone can at least give me the bare-bones on what makes him sound so mystifying! Thank you for doing what you do
Man Ian , I can't wait to get home and dive into this, i am really excited!!! I've got a good grasp on the the 5 pentatonic positions and was wanting to get into the major scale What a great way to study the major scale . Thank you . I feel good !!!
I have been asking my teachers for years for this! You taught the power of 5's so easy, that I think they hate Phish and won't teach it to me. "Play modally" they say.
thank you for this... me and my son both are loving watching your videos ... and yes... never forget your phish fans once you get famous :) what pedal do you use for your backing? boomerang?
Can you pleeeeeeasee do a lesson on trey "cow funk" chords(double stops) style. When he sits back and lays the groove and plays rhythm is the best. Please please please!!!
Hey Ian could you do an in the mind of Dickie Betts/Duane Allman video? Allman bros is my favorite and I try to sit and go through it all myself but I still struggle. I know they hop between major/minor pentatonic and mixolydian stuff all the time over the top of chord changes. If you broke something down like Jessica or something it would be very helpful.
May I recommend a "In the Mind of Trey Anastasio - Rhythm Concepts" video? I always enjoyed Trey's rhythmic sensibility, particularly his brand of funk that he incorporates into a lot of Phish songs/jams.
I need help with the 5/4ish on the proper instruments while Fish is 4/4ing on the drums. That jumpy jerky part in the middle. I dont know that any of that time sig busines is what I said it is. I dunno shit.
So, Stich, I find that when soloing over a faster chord progression and trying to hit the root notes of each chord as the chords are played, that there is not much creativity there. I find most of the notes in my solo are just the same 3 or 4 notes with slight variations and octave shifts. Any advice to get a better solo filled with feeling rather than the mechanical playing of the root notes? Love ya, man!
Stitch, in this video you talk about using the E-shape major scale as a connector - wouldn't we also need to use the D shape hub that we use in the first Neverlost minor pentatonic video?
StichMethod Guitar Awesome! And I just realized I think I meant C-shape hub. Well, whatever the equivalent of the form 3 pentatonic hub is. You knew what I meant ;)
StichMethod Guitar This is really interesting and I've been wondering the same thing about your picking style. I'm reading two things here: up/downstrokes depending on timing (down for 1/4 and 1/8th notes, up for 16th notes ), and up/downstrokes depending on the direction of the next note. These seem like two independent concepts. Kind of a "Hybrid Economy" or "Double Economy" picking since I thought Economy referred strictly to choice of stroke based on direction like sweeping. This seems like something I've never seen explained before and I like it! It kind of looks like from your videos, it's usually a downstroke unless it's a 16th note on the same or higher (towards low E) string. There may be an exception to that rule for the high E string whereby you may do an upstroke on 1/4 or 1/8th since you will likely be going back up. Does that sound right to you Stitch? Would a 16th note on a lower (towards high E) string be an upstroke or a downstroke for you if the next note was also towards high E. You'd essentially sweep the first two notes, right? And the third 16th note would either be up or down depending on where the next note was? It's a tricky two dimensional equation!
