What Jerry Garcia’s Acoustic Playing Can Teach You 

i take it :P

Good job

Really would look at more as a b5, the blue note. The flatted 5th is used all throughout the blues

Really would look at more as a b5, the blue note. The flatted 5th is used all throughout the blues

Really would look at more as a b5, the blue note. The flatted 5th is used all throughout the blues

Really would look at more as a b5, the blue note. The flatted 5th is used all throughout the blues

Really would look at more as a b5, the blue note. The flatted 5th is used all throughout the blues

No prob, glad it was helpful.

That was pedal steel right?

​@@Alcookeverybody On Workingman's, yep.

Bro I was there Oct 30 1980. I was a senior in highschool . My posse and I all wore black suits. Great night!

So jealous of you!

I can't believe it! I really neglected my channel last year to focus on free and paid courses but this year will be different. Also been taking a ton of different courses myself so now it's time to implement and put it out there!

I actually made one myself! The Weight » Acoustic Guitar Lesson » The Band: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m8Q4m4ADeqc.html And a backing tracks too, The Weight » Backing Track (Acoustic Guitar) » The Band: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zN2UA2r8qD8.html

Not slide.guitar. Pedal steel (at which he was exponentially better than slide).

Thanks. The live songs are in this order: 1. ripple 2. it must have been the roses 3. friend of the devil 4. bird song

I've grown to prefer most chords on my acoustic as less than a full barre.

That's mostly Jerry on Cowboy Movie. (I don't even hear Stills there, although that certainly doesn't mean he wasn't.)

Play the chord changes

Great topic. He definitely used mixolydian the most then dorian, the major and minor scales, pentanics etc... threw in lots of notes in between. But above all I say he focused on the the melody and yeah, the chord changes for sure.

@@JeffWilliamsGuitar Yes he would keep Recycling the vocal melody and paraphrasing it but the hard part I'm talking about is how do you use the Mixolydian scale to "make it sound like jerry garcia" because he has his trademark habits. Make a video lesson about the TOP 10 Jerry Garcia scalar habits

@@waynegram8907 "TOP 10 Jerry Garcia scalar habits" that's a great idea!

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That's a great question. I'm no expert on the physics of sounds waves so I can't really tell you. To my ears it sounds so much more harmonically rich but can't really explain it. There are limitations to open strings though, like less techniques that can be applied.

Possible theory here... A capo isn't going to mute vibrations from traveling down the neck to the headstock, not like playing a bar chord does. More sound comes if all parts of the guitar can be excited and in turn vibrate, which is lessened by a) not allowing the strings to vibrate all the way to the nut, so essentially fingering at higher frets, and b) the grip you exert over the back of the neck as you bar a bar chord. If you get a tuner that clamps to the headstock, you might be able to try some different tests with capos vs a bar style chord. I've not done this, but I don't have that kind of tuner.

It's all standard tuning. I didn't use to believe it either

That type of flat flat picking involves hours and hours of practice in order to be able to facilitate like the way you hear most bluegrass flatpickers do and in my opinion Jerry Garcia was too lazy for that type of playing. Don't get me wrong Jerry was a natural musician who was lucky enough to find others that were similar to him in his Outlook with music and life and like he himself says his limitations brought him to the electric guitar. Jerry and his cohorts were not interested in spending 6 hours every day alone in their room practicing technique so they could be a great jazz player or bluegrass player but what they did is just as valid

I'd say Ship of Fools

It must have been the roses

Haha!

So did you hear it from Jerry or Bill?

@@xianshep someone that was there at bill Monroe’s place. He was the caretaker while Bill was on tour. He said Jerry showed up while bill was on the road and asked if he could camp out until Bill returned. He told him he could and then when Bill got back he auditioned. Bill told him to keep working at it and come back and try again.

Ah, you're either the same guy who wrote an excoriating letter to Guitar Player about 30 years.ago, or you stole that line from him. Regardless of his debatable skills on the guitar, he was unquestionably a fine songwriter, banjo player, and had an astonishing aptitude for the pedal steel - also a sparkling intellect and fine human being.

A 4-Hour grateful Dead concert is 3 1/2 hours of pretty mediocre meandering type of music for just 20 to 30 minutes of a convergence of the musicians and the audience. Those few moments of musical Bliss is what attracted The grateful Dead Jerry Garcia crowd to put up with 3 1/2 hours of what amounted to pretty boring music

Uh what? Jerry could play circles around willie on any stringed instrument, let alone guitar.

Willie’s cool but I don’t get what you are getting at.

Unless you're a jazz player. If you're not familiar with jazz guitar players like Joe pass or West Montgomery or the new guys like Peter Bernstein you could always Google jazz guitar or I guess you could type in jazz guitar players on RU-vid probably get the same results

Well maybe you feel better for saying that but it really shows you don't understand what they meant by limitations because even the greatest of the classical musicians and jazz musicians will also tell you the same thing about limitations. Why don't you just be honest and say you're not wild about Jerry's guitar playing.. Jerry was a natural musician who unfortunately was too lazy and his friends that he surrounded himself with were also in that mindset of getting high was the priority and music was the way

Okay, here's one: The solo on Live/Dead's "Death Don't Have No Mercy." If he'd played like THAT more often, he'd have been far more deserving of the accolades.