Jacksnax: Big Railroad Blues Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia Solo & Lesson

[@gregjudd1944]

Great lesson for one of my all time favorite Grateful Dead jams. Thank you!

[@ChrisVecchiolla]

This is an excellent, deep dive into a classic Jerry power jam. Thank you. 🎉🎉

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

@@ChrisVecchiolla you’re welcome

[@hebrewuser]

came back to this lesson... minute 15:00 -- Jacksnax FEELIN' IT!!! -- you can see his body move into the groove and then 15:21 he shows us the ROCK-N-ROLL forever sign... just awesome.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

@@hebrewuser couldn’t be helped!

[@Neslo-1028]

@15:25 "energized, electrified, acid-brain"... "absolutely crackling with energy"... AGREED. Love the enthusiasm after you finish the solo run over the jam track. Infectious... Just a fantastic lesson.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Easy to teach what you love! Glad you’re having fun and learning😊 Thanks for the comment and for supporting the channel!

[@danielr8932]

Wow, what a terrific lesson. And taught by an excellent guitar player who gets it. Thank you!

[@judwillmont4856]

Love this stuff

[@smith8281]

Thanks. Needed a refresher

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Great tune… so ballsy

[@michaelreh3038]

Subscribed! Excellent lesson thank you.

[@walkingtal4157]

You're right, Skull n' Roses is where its at. I'm wonderin' if Jerry was playing an SG on this.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

I think it’s “the peanut”: 2 PAFs, a neck from an SG custom with an extended fretboard and a walnut body in an oddly shaped body. Look for pix on the net…

[@jordanrobinson8030]

Perfect lesson, thank you

[@walkingtal4157]

Fantastic!

[@patemcdaniel3625]

Going down the road feeling bad next plz thanks for the great lesson

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Already did one…check out the GD playlist. Lots of stuff in there. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqaVkqSnZcR9qaM

[@drewcunningham2]

I really admire your talent and love to watch you play - I am basically an intermediate player coming back to guitar after many years of absence - I realize you channel basically is geared to more advanced electric players, though I can usually pick up the jist of a specific tune but find the lessons move much too quickly - love it if you would offer tabs???

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Wish I could…I just don’t do that. I don’t know how to do it and have never used them.

[@drewcunningham2]

@@jacksnax4guitar460 no worries mate - I've still learned so much from you - I really enjoy your lessons and am blown away by how well you play and how much you sound like Jerry... BTW - I am now 60 years old and retired, thus I do have a lot of time on my hands - and much more patience than I had as a young teen, trying to figure out GD tunes by listening to a tune over and over picking up the needle on my turntable to try and figure out specific parts - a hard way learn to be sure - no KZbin way back then - anyway, fantastic channel - I truly enjoy your work and listen to you most every day - cheers!!!

[@rab50t]

Another excellent video. How can I contact you about private lessons?

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

[e-mail]

[@Billytwoshedssheds]

Great lesson, from a great album! Any chance of you working through Me and Bobby McGee from the same source?!?

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Yeah…I did that one! Look at the GD playlist

[@RobData]

Do you or would you share that Kemper profile on the Kemper Rig Exchange? It's a great sound you have there, and the lesson, as always, is on the money

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

I would…but to be honest, I’ve never hooked it up to the internet, updated it or anything! I’m a techno dummy but would be happy to share. Email me and we’ll set up a zoom?

[@RobData]

@@jacksnax4guitar460 That's strange, I replied yesterday but the reply doesn't show. I'd said that uploading is easy, because there's an "upload to rig exchange" in the rig manager software, but it does mean you have to register for an account with Kemper - worth doing. Right, that said, I'd be happy to email and set up a zoom but can't find you email anywhere, can you see my email so you need to blurt yours out to the whole internet?

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

@@RobData it’s at the end of the video I think?…but here you go. I’ll just clean this up later…and thanks for the offer to zoom, I’m terrible at all this stuff! [e-mail]

[@philipbailey627]

This site is the best site I've found for playing the Dead. Please excuse my beginning question, but what happens at the E chord. Where are my fingers?

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Hi Philip, Welcome aboard! No need to apologize for having questions…that’s what it’s all about! That said, your question is very, very open ended! A good starting point is learning a lot of chord shapes. Those shapes are called “voicings” often. Learn a lot of those. And lots of songs. The notes in those shapes, when played at once form chords. When played individually it’s called an arpeggio. My take on soloing is that it’s best seen as an extension of rhythm guitar. After learning how to play chords in time single notes (arpeggios) come into play along with scales and licks. These elements ultimately form a vocabulary that each player uses while soloing and is constantly (hopefully😉) evolving. So “where are my fingers on the E chord?” could be a very basic or very advanced question…But probably there’s going to be some notes from the E chord involved. Maybe a note that’s causes tension? It’s hard to say. All that aside…if you have specific questions about what is going on at a particular time in the video I’m happy to share! Take care and don’t stop! Let your curiosity inspire you😊

[@ramblinwes7853]

OMG! What is at 2:37 right after that you go to the first fret before the D

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Not sure what you mean… just playing the riff.

[@ramblinwes7853]

@@jacksnax4guitar460 Thanks for the response! You bend the F# on 6 and then play something before sliding into D and no matter how many times I watch it in slow motion I don't get it.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

@@ramblinwes7853 it’s the B note on the A string