Most Guitarists ignore this, but Jerry Garcia didn't!

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

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[@boomerdell]

Superb lesson, Jeff, and I am super-psyched to dive into the Dissecting The Dead course! Bought it as soon as you released it. 😊🌟👍🏽

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

@@boomerdell Thanks Boomer, glad you enjoyed it and hope you enjoy the course!

[@themichaelcantrellband1516]

Used to mow Joe Pass' yard when he moved into his Van Nuys home around 1971. Hung out at Dantes (jazz club) on Lankershim, and Monday was guitar nite, for two $1.75 drinks you could nurse them and stay all night. Ya, Lee Ritenhour used to play on Monday too, HE WAS THE BEST ROCK GUITAR PLAYER I EVER SAW. Mr. Pass had a heart of gold and was probably brought to this planet by aliens, his talent was completely off the charts and there's plenty of his work to show for it. I was the fly on the wall and never knew how lucky I was.

[@petervinella5545]

I went with Jerry to the Great American Music Hall in SF in 1972 to see Joe Pass and Howard Roberts. While he didn’t sound like a jazzer, he was really influenced by jazz which comes out in his arpeggios and chromatic runs. He loved all styles of music and loved to play. Great guitarist.

[@grant5603]

He definitely did in those 74 jams

[@Galidi1969]

Jerry played using a lot of triad and dyads. The Allmans did this as well. Guitar players from Africa and others use similar techniques played in intervals of 3rds and 6ths.

[@austinknowlton1783]

I'm almost 50, been playing since I was 13 or 14 on and off. My early learning was the major "cowboy" chords, and when it came to playing lead I would try to pick notes out of these chords into some sort of passable melody. Used to think I was being stupid until I started learning some scales and saw how the two correlate. Now I'm still not a great guitar player by any means but I'm glad I didn't ignore this aspect of lead playing and still lean on it sometimes. Thank you for pointing out that Jerry didn't either. Great playing btw, and nice Strat.

[@JayRiemenschneider]

Well done. On one of Dicks Picks from 76 Jerry plays Minglewoods solo with chords predominantly one night and through individual notes the next. Interesting to hear the difference, what a great player.

[@erikhendrickson59]

Man you REALLY nailed Jerry's sound. He and Bob Weir have long been underrated and/or overlooked by many guitarists.

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Thanks Erik.

[@naturalfinish]

Excellent job breaking this down, one of my favorite aspects of Garcia’s playing…Mark Knopfler is quite adept at this chordal soloing approach as well…Garcia would break it out in fire and dew especially

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Hey thanks. Yeah, Mark Knopfler is someone I'm always thinking I gotta listen to more. I love his fingerstyle tone.

[@joefelice5062]

Try laying your index finger across the bottom three strings on the fourth fret.

[@musicofanatic]

As one who has played rocknrollelectricguitar for some 50 years at this point, my playing features more playing out of broken/partial chords in multiple inversions than the single-note wankery of my younger days...logical development, I reckon

[@cosmicrancher2169]

I miss Jerry, thanks brother.

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

No prob.

[@kerryc.7438]

I like Jeff , he takes the mystery out of playing guitar

[@jordanrobinson8030]

Excellent video. He does this in so many songs and I’ve never been able to figure out entirely what he’s doing. Thanks Jeff

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Thanks Jordan and no prob.

[@ShreddingTiger]

3/28/81 - Rockpalast. Althea and Shakedown are all-timers ⚡️

[@Mark-Ace-LaForce]

I got a chuckle regarding your comment about hearing a song while driving on Rt 290 in Worcester, Mass. since I grew up in Worcester and I remember as a kid Rt. 290 being built! :) I agree that it is unusual and appealing to hear a guitarist using chords to make a solo. It makes for a fuller and more unique sound.

[@untroubledwaters2137]

I live outside of Worcester, and I was driving on 290 west an hour ago LOL!!

[@joepalooka2145]

I've been a Jerry fan for decades, ever since the days of the great "Festival Express" video featuring the Dead and many other bands. He was always a great creative musician and artist from the very beginning. Don't forget Jerry's excellent pedal steel playing--- he was outstanding!

[@JimmyGambiniEsquire]

👊💥😎New Riders of the Purple Sage

[@Shivaho]

Just read an article about Elizabeth Cotton who moved to Syracuse in 1978... The Dead would always visit her when they came to town. Jerry would do a few of her songs & reference her as a big influence on him.

[@artysanmobile]

Jimi Hendrix did this masterfully and often. It satisfied his need to tell a story in his soloing and his facility on the instrument was no obstacle at all.

[@thesaneparty4079]

Alex Lifeson certainly in the Grace Under Pressure era was all over soloing with chord shapes.

[@joshuacumming4132]

5/19/77 sugaree. From the 11:30 mark on. Please break it down.

[@jeffreycarpenter1864]

Fantastic idea for a video to actually add tools for soloing. Very fresh and 100% something that most guitarists don’t think of (my case for sure). Thanks!

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Glad it was helpful!

[@przybyla420]

Harder they Come as a great example of this. I like how he plays a solo with building intensity and then often breaks out the chord solo after you can’t imagine it going on any longer. It doesn’t work as well if you have too much distortion too, or too little. Enough to get some crunch but not so much that you lose the sound of the individual strings.

[@marcus_starr]

Bobby comes in for the slide fill. Great. video. Love soloing with triads.

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Thanks Marcus.

[@BobSperber]

So fundamental and simple, from triads to double stops

[@haldonaldson4455]

Cosmic J.G.Deep Space Jazz Rules !!! Good job man. Thank You!

[@stevensrp2music985]

Bro you’re always killing it and sharing some amazing info. Joe was the first I heard and honestly thought it was at least 2 guitarist. Jerry always played great inversions. Bob did as well.

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Yeah, I remember the first time hearing Joe Pass and also thinking it had to be 2 guitarist.

[@JESL_TheOnlyOne]

Bobby still does.

[@righturnclide]

i highly recommend checking out the barry harris method on guitar. barry was a jazz GOD his approach is not easy to dive into but well worth the effort

[@zzzsydneyhom1379]

Love your channel Jeff! Thanks for passing on the good vibes...

[@martinh1277]

The first 2 tones of this solo are single note. This is the signal for the audience to listen on the melody. Chords follow. The audience now recognize the melody in the chords.

[@AlbPerNil]

Nice vid, I'm going utilise this tomorrow when I play

[@adirondacktrekking1972]

This is exactly why I listen ,you genuinely want to help us get better ,thanks brother 🙏

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

No prob man!

[@rbull7777]

I've never been able to figure out what he's playing when he does this in Eyes of the World. I guess I don't know enough inversions of Emaj7.

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Yup, basically the same stuff but with different chords.

[@SteveCutlerLive]

Bobbys chord inversion and leading chord tones are like the matched book ends to Jerrys. Bobbys brilliant chording is Often over looked in that sense.

[@robinjones6999]

The thing is Jerry was just very good at it

[@ray67guitar]

Thank you for breaking down Jerry´s incredible playfulness.

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

No prob.

[@ray67guitar]

Jeff have you got Dear Prudence ( Garcia Band) Backing track just to sing and play guitar solo along? I love your BT accuracy and high sound quality.

[@alexmicheletti9598]

Just what ive been looking for thnx jeff

[@waynegram8907]

JEFF WILLIAMS, Listen to the boxset 1974 winterland because Garcia uses scale note sequencings running up and down scales. Make a video lesson about his scale sequencing notes running up and down scales because he uses certain patterns of note orders

[@gregchurch7001]

I'm not a musician but doesn't Jerry do this on the bridge of "One More Saturday Night"? I'm thinking of the KZbin Winterland 12-31-77 starting at about 3:15.

[@ocpblo]

Great lesson and very well said Jeff!! Love your channel bro, I learn a lot

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Thanks glad it's helpful.

[@mountain_girl]

wow....the youtube algorithm really gets it right sometimes. And the intro had me choking on my coffee laughing....also been there, almost literally as I grew up in RI but went to college in VT, drove among others a white vdub (71 westfalia with pancake engine) but instead of Pass (I would learn about him eventually, just wasn't my first wow moment with jazz and improv) it was Pat Metheney, Jaco and Weather Report. Pat M is another great example of soloing w chords, of course he was influence by Pas for sure. I wonder how many kids I used to kick around the parking lot scenes at Dead shows are here on youtube making great content like this? Anyway, awsome to have found this channel this AM, really cool discussion too.

[@MrYatesj1]

Wonderful Lesson Jeff, Mind Opening!! Thanks Brother!!

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Thanks and no prob!

[@biganation9128]

That was awesome! How well do you think Mayor is taking on Jerry's roll?

[@tomwipf9637]

Awesome and so informs always

[@edwhite7475]

Im thinking this will dovetail in with my tele B and G bender....its very similar but with country flavoring

[@dannystrat]

Chording truly adds texture to soloing. And, yes, I forgot about this.......! Thanks for this video! Gonna break out my guitar now. (And I'm a diehard DeadHead!)

[@lukewarren7857]

Namaste, glad I subscribed

[@robertdingleton1929]

check out Jack Straw from 4-16-78 for another example of this.

[@bobcoleman9045]

That's my favorite Althea!!

[@joeb564]

I definitely like that. Thanks 🙏

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

You’re welcome 😊

[@untroubledwaters2137]

Long Live Wista MA!!!! Wicked cool.

[@DodsonDodsworth]

Wow great video. Learned alot

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Thanks glad it was helpful

[@DrunkenRhinoceros]

Bobby was the chord maestro in the dead.

[@arifq123]

Nice triads lesson.

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Thanks.

[@robp7035]

Where is slide at 3:10

[@FlyGuy2000]

St. Stephen sneakin' in the mix. :)

[@joshbrown4506]

Ayy I’m from RI, didn’t know you were right over there

[@LittleGuitarConcert]

Haha right? Always a bonus to hear “Worcester” pronounced correctly!

[@jerry-st7rc]

Jerry was so out on tar heroin on this show, check the backstage footage. Major speed ball. Heroin and coke. The dark years. Obviously wows people who aren't familiar w his playing by far not his best. Lik3 Bob weir said Jerry was the hottest in the late 80s 87-89. 77 too w Bean and wolf.

[@dustylense]

forgot to leave a like, so I came back and gave it a like.

[@tomwipf9637]

Thanks

[@Dang...]

Frank Zappa talks about Jerry: cool!

[@mito88]

did john fahey play the same style?

[@kenkoellner9421]

Checkout the lead in the middle of Eyes of the World 9/3/77.

[@gxtmfa]

Lots of country guys use double stops and triadic pairs

[@mh4zd]

It's what you do when you're compensating for Bob Wier.

[@soggynachos3396]

Phil video soon? :)

[@bonanzatime]

Roll Away!,.. The Dew!😃😄

[@mito88]

long live jerry garcia

[@untroubledwaters2137]

Jerry Heals

[@Paul-dw2cl]

I recognize those Worcester mountains, right around the corner is a Dunkin Donuts and New England Roast Beef. Sounds good but the guitar sounds slightly out of tune

[@christophernuzzolo5977]

Forgerty was the king of chord solos, basically on all of his songs.

[@bsheelflip]

The thumbnail would suggest their volume knob

[@docwill184]

This was John Fogerty's secret lead sauce in CCR...not as complex but same principle....

[@fatamorgana4318]

I hear Althea, I sub...that's how it works!

[@jerrytaliercio9087]

My head is now dead 🎶

[@andrewborus9599]

Worcester represent!!

[@andrewborus9599]

probably heard it on WICN!!

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

It was! And luckily after the song was over DJ said who it was. I immediately went to Newbury Comics in Shrewsbury and even though Joe Pass had tons of albums and they only had about 3, one of them was the one I just heard!

[@frama7545]

Maybe head to AL Bums for some vinyl

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

@@frama7545 I used to love buying cd's at that store!

[@stevenkono]

In a nutshell, Jerry would often play the vocal melody as part of his leads..

[@anthonynicholson5523]

Lol...the faces in the bus

[@ScavbandPA]

Love this fuckin channel!

[@williardbillmore5713]

Triad inversions of the basic chord progression. This is guitar accompaniment 101. Keith Richards was doing this in 1965 on his song, "The Last Time".

[@ghostdance56]

I know, there's nothing unique about playing this way. If anyone led the way on this it was Keith.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

Well, a better example would be Jimi Hendrix on tunes like Little wing. The first thing you played may not qualify as playing solo and rhythm together, because solo meaning alone, or single implies one note at a time, and just two notes at the same time (AKA double stops or dyads), makes it a chord. Playing one chord at a time, changing any number of notes even one of a chord, still gives you a chord. If done often with keeping the roots of chords intact, it does add a melody line, but it's way more effective and interesting when the melody line has more fractions than the the base chords of the rhythm. On the other hand I don't think there is an official word for it. So, "Simultaneous rhythm and melody" is more to the point and explanatory. If there is an official musical term for it, and someone knows it, then reply with it, so more of us can know it.

[@stefanososio8546]

Robert I think that generally speaking in rock pop jazz (and so on) music culture a "solo" is when a player in the band does some written part, or improvisation, or reprise of the melody, or a virtuoso part, i.e. he or she attracts the audience attention, while the rest of the band continues the accompainment and works for him or her. So I think that Jeff is to the point because he focuses in how many ways that player may do the job. In my humble opinion soloing it's not a question of one, two notes, single, alone, tryads, chords. Soloing is emphasizing and concentrating the material of a song while coming out in front to the audience, and you may do this even playing chords. But I may also have misunderstood your comment because I'm italian and I may have not got your point right! In this case I apologize

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Well said Stefano!

[@stefanososio8546]

@@JeffWilliamsGuitar thank you, I think your recent videos about Bob and Jerry are very well done! Thank you!

[@MikeFlatow]

the way you opened the vid with a simple explanation of what Jerry was doing hit me like a ton of bricks. It never occurred to me.

[@theroguetomato5362]

Apparently you've never listened to Wes Montgomery.

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

He's the soloing with chords master.

[@patrickreilly7256]

Please don't pull the curtains back on the mighty OZ...!!!

[@dukegreened]

that's great, but that's the bob weir part not jerry's

[@MrAsh1952]

george harrison? and many more

[@taurenchoinski]

Welcome to Worcester. $1.25, Pop.

[@JeffWilliamsGuitar]

Haha!

[@gearcoll8709]

Wish these guys would GET that it would be helpful to stop using camera angles that send the headstock off into the upper-right corner. we waste SO f_ckin much time trying to decipher fingerings that aren't straigh-shot on . At least Haugen is more useful that way.

[@theworldisavampire3346]

HUGE dead fan here. he had to. did you ever really listen to Bobby play? the isolated videos showed how lacking he was. dude barely played. Jerry did most of the melody

[@danielmurphy8201]

Dragged out to long stop talking