Improvising Melodies | "Fire On The Mountain" | Grateful Dead Guitar Lesson

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  • Опубліковано 24 лис 2024

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  • @andrewhackney3718
    @andrewhackney3718 7 місяців тому +5

    Man…. Lightbulb moments all over this thing. Like a Christmas tree over here. I’m watching this 4 years later and look to see it have 39k views. More people need to see this. Bridging the gap of looking at things as a guitar player to looking at things musically. I’ll probably watch this video a dozen times.

  • @dewaynemizzell7009
    @dewaynemizzell7009 3 роки тому +30

    This man just did more on one string than I ever did on my whole ass guitar

  • @MrMusicM67
    @MrMusicM67 4 роки тому +51

    I am surprised you don't have more views. This is great content.

    • @fc7alibi
      @fc7alibi 4 роки тому

      Should seriously have more views. This is good stuff.

  • @JuanDaringMann
    @JuanDaringMann 4 роки тому +12

    You teach in a way that easily makes sense. I appreciate your efforts.

  • @davidkennedy9449
    @davidkennedy9449 4 роки тому +19

    Think as a horn player or a voice with one note at a time....not shapes. Outstanding advice! Thanks!

    • @konradgannon550
      @konradgannon550 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah Jerry thought of himself as a horn player.

    • @mikeherriman4600
      @mikeherriman4600 4 роки тому

      "Someone plays guitar that sounds like clarinet..."

    • @bak1386
      @bak1386 4 роки тому

      Agreed, it simplifies the fretboard in a way

    • @magicdaveable
      @magicdaveable 3 роки тому +1

      I learned to build solos by listening to Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Grover Washington, Harry James, et al. Mostly early bebop but big band blues too.

    • @magicdaveable
      @magicdaveable 3 роки тому +1

      @@mikeherriman4600 i have been accused of the clarinet thing lots of times back in the mid-70's. I was even recruited by a local big band while attending college. Yeah, I am an "old guy." 😀 The big band guy heard us jamming on Deep Purple "Lazy" and beat on the door until we heard him knocking 😀 He then asked where the Clarinet player went. It took another jam to concince him the "Clarinet" was the neck pickup of my guitar with the tone control rolled off about half way. Playing some bebop lines helped too. Thankfully I had been familiarizing myself with ii V I and searching for 3rds.

  • @ukuleleloveshack
    @ukuleleloveshack 5 місяців тому

    Superb lesson! I dig the intro jam to show where we are headed and excellent steps to get us there. Simple clear concise effective.

  • @laphil1969
    @laphil1969 4 роки тому +3

    I've never had instruction like this. This REALLY helped! I'm definitely checking out the rest of your lessons. Thanks! :)

  • @brendanmoore5456
    @brendanmoore5456 4 роки тому +1

    This is the best teacher I’ve ever seen

  • @yanks417
    @yanks417 4 роки тому +2

    One of my favorite Grateful Dead songs, took me a while to understand it was actually the 5 chord (B) and 4 chord (A) in the key of E, but once that breakthru happened this song got so much more fun to play over. thanks for the premium content

  • @danielmasterson3996
    @danielmasterson3996 3 роки тому +2

    Absolutely love this. Great method to breaking out of the plateau of playing scales. Really enjoying your lessons, man.

  • @woodyreece5588
    @woodyreece5588 2 роки тому

    This lesson completely changed my approach to solos ....thanks dude..

  • @AaronLS.
    @AaronLS. 4 роки тому +2

    Such a great lesson. Love the wrap up with a useful exercise we can all work on immediately.

  • @stoneglad
    @stoneglad Рік тому

    Thanks this is a great key and I can’t wait to start practicing it! I suspect after going through this exercise on each string I’ll soon be approaching my leads and looking at the fretboard differently and melodically!

  • @GiantSFaithfuL
    @GiantSFaithfuL 4 роки тому +2

    This is so $$$$! Watched the other 2 vids. Love the way you put these notes in perspective. And the linear challenge I accept. Been working on this song in particular so this is perfect. Can't wait to practice and master each string. Thanks bro!

  • @QBRX
    @QBRX Рік тому

    Wow, sounded so Grateful Dead...love it.

  • @bak1386
    @bak1386 4 роки тому

    This is an extremely valuable lesson. U are a great teacher by the way. This stuff is priceless

  • @relyt0011223344
    @relyt0011223344 4 роки тому

    Dude! I absolutely love that your channel targets passed the beginner level. This content is great and delivered in a way that keeps me listening rather than just getting distracted by my guitar like a typical annoying guitar student lol

  • @adityacalambur5198
    @adityacalambur5198 4 роки тому

    Love how you explain this concept

  • @cbwilson9312
    @cbwilson9312 Рік тому

    Always enjoy your lessons

  • @sanjeevio9944
    @sanjeevio9944 Рік тому

    love you bro! this just unlocked my playing level

  • @kadencas1
    @kadencas1 2 роки тому

    This video helped me SO much. Thank you very much my friend!!!!!

  • @PettiMusicStudios
    @PettiMusicStudios 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks for linking my track! Love your channel and your react videos. Great way of describing how to solo. Like a horn player or a singer.

    • @Guitargate
      @Guitargate  4 роки тому +1

      You make great stuff! Thanks!

    • @PettiMusicStudios
      @PettiMusicStudios 4 роки тому

      @@Guitargate thanks man. keep up the amazing lessons!

  • @jonathancollier6490
    @jonathancollier6490 4 роки тому

    Really enjoying the videos dude. Love love love the Dead. So grateful the music is still alive and going strong.

  • @justincumberland8544
    @justincumberland8544 4 роки тому

    i love your videos, man. They have helped me alot and ive passed your channel on to all my musician buddies.

  • @FlatlandMando
    @FlatlandMando 4 роки тому

    Super good content. I watch this when I want to hear good music & have my brain expanded

  • @laurahastings7157
    @laurahastings7157 3 роки тому

    I really like your teaching style,I will do lessons asap !thanks

  • @CryptoComet
    @CryptoComet 3 роки тому

    U deserve more subs/likes... just the one string at a time concept alone has gotten me farther in the last 10 mins than the last week

  • @hammerplumbing
    @hammerplumbing 3 роки тому

    Wow. Thanks for being so clear. This was helpful

  • @darrenschnabel
    @darrenschnabel 4 роки тому +1

    40 years of playing trumpet, 30 on guitar you just made me realize I play leads on guitar as a horn player.... on one string. Harder for me to see patterns. Interesting. Thanks for the video.

  • @goggleboy2464
    @goggleboy2464 4 роки тому +2

    R-3-5 = triad = arpeggios
    Awesome topic!

  • @hightimeproperties
    @hightimeproperties 4 роки тому

    This is a crazy good lesson. Thank you

  • @magicdaveable
    @magicdaveable 3 роки тому

    Great Lesson Michael !!! Should be very useful learning Jerry's approach to soloing. I wish you had been around in the late 1960's when I was literally wearing out Dead albums trying to learn guitar.

  • @littermonks
    @littermonks 4 роки тому

    I love this approach! I often wish I could limit my options (I've literally taken off strings to try and achieve this!)

  • @Loveserveremember77
    @Loveserveremember77 4 роки тому +1

    You're still the best dude, simple as that.

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley 4 роки тому

    Great lesson.

  • @PhishyBongwaters
    @PhishyBongwaters 4 роки тому +10

    Only a matter of time before you are posting "improvising melodies| phish" :D This is great.

    • @derickg1488
      @derickg1488 4 роки тому +2

      He did his first one , Free from the Brooklyn show in 04!!! It seems that he already got "Phish hooked", which he said numerous times during it. It was really neat watching his reaction too, to say that he was impressed, would be a huge understatement!!!! He made a comment near the end of the video saying something like " he sees what's going on with them, he's got a few things figured out!!". Lol. Little does he know what he doesnt know, yet. Definitely looking forward to more of these type of videos.

  • @joannm5682
    @joannm5682 2 роки тому

    wow..game changer TY

  • @MrDallman
    @MrDallman 3 роки тому

    Hi Micheal….how about a study of the great Alvin Lee’s “Bluest Blues” …the final solo by Alvin, is for me the greatest solo of all.
    My hero’s are Jimi, Rory, Alvin, Micheal Bloomfield, Peter Green, Freddie King, John McLaughlin.
    I love all your posts….the best.

  • @gabriel.vasquesd
    @gabriel.vasquesd 3 роки тому

    Great lesson

  • @jackh577
    @jackh577 4 роки тому

    Awesome!

  • @joshuablacher
    @joshuablacher Рік тому

    Omg what a lesson

  • @tclaffey
    @tclaffey 10 місяців тому

    Light bulb moment. Thanks man

  • @J-kn1or
    @J-kn1or 4 місяці тому

    Sweet!!!

  • @dkuda1
    @dkuda1 4 роки тому

    This is awesome

  • @EndoftheTownProductions
    @EndoftheTownProductions 4 роки тому +3

    You should do a video on Widespread Panic's "Driving Song" or "Hatfield".

    • @lyetts
      @lyetts 4 роки тому

      I've been trying to get him to do some Panic too 👍

  • @wooddog3000
    @wooddog3000 4 роки тому

    You're the David Blaine of guitar teachers. But seriously, GREAT LESSON!!!!!!!

  • @TheCatfishcheese
    @TheCatfishcheese 4 роки тому

    nice lesson. jus what I needed.
    💀⚘⚡❤⚡⚘💀

  • @jonathangrass1559
    @jonathangrass1559 5 місяців тому

    Here to say as a subscriber of GuitarGate. Sign up. You won't regret it.

  • @ChrisWhite-lh7mg
    @ChrisWhite-lh7mg 3 місяці тому

    Amazing tip.

  • @citrix99301
    @citrix99301 2 роки тому

    What's the Silver Sky playing through? I sold mine and went back to a Strat because the tone seemed flat. Would have kept it if it sounded like this. Thoughts?

  • @CurtisG94
    @CurtisG94 4 роки тому

    What is your pedal and amp setup, the tone you have on this so amazing! I know that PRS has a lot to do with it too though haha

  • @hmtaylor7
    @hmtaylor7 3 роки тому

    Gold

  • @Auxend
    @Auxend 4 роки тому +1

    Great episode! Dude I love you on a single coil! 😉how are you getting along with the neck?

    • @Guitargate
      @Guitargate  4 роки тому

      Auxend LOVE the singles! Thx!

  • @ojikumaa
    @ojikumaa 4 роки тому

    Ah! Wishful thinking to expect a Vreid song

  • @victorjohnston1529
    @victorjohnston1529 Рік тому

    I saw the title and thought of Charlie Daniels and The Marshall Tucker Band.

  • @sjk254
    @sjk254 3 роки тому +1

    I would treat it as a I-VII progression in B.

    • @marcsullivan7987
      @marcsullivan7987 3 роки тому

      Well, that’s what it is,
      If you are considering it as “B mixolydian”
      But to a beginner, it helps to think of it in terms of its parent major scale (E major), and, in that sense, it’s the 5 and 4 chord

  • @moodswingy1973
    @moodswingy1973 4 роки тому

    It’s great content - a Deadhead guitarist’s dream. I’ll bet the view count would skyrocket with a different title. From a SEO standpoint Planning your attack” is a peculiar way of titling a Dead lesson. But like I said great content, and at any rate your videos get more views than mine!

    • @Guitargate
      @Guitargate  4 роки тому +1

      OK! I'll change it right now. Let me know if you think a specific title is better. I appreciate it!

    • @moodswingy1973
      @moodswingy1973 4 роки тому

      Wow yes - the new title has it all!

    • @moodswingy1973
      @moodswingy1973 4 роки тому +1

      Yep yep there are plenty of GD tutorials out there (Marty Schwartz does a ton of Dead) but Jerry Garcia's guitar playing is all about improvisation and NOBODY is teaching it but you. So yes, Grateful Dead - Guitar Lession - Improvising/improvisation are all great words to have in the title. Thank you!

    • @moodswingy1973
      @moodswingy1973 4 роки тому

      Lesson not lession lol.

  • @davidb7066
    @davidb7066 2 місяці тому

    Jam track link??

  • @flayvonmilord9237
    @flayvonmilord9237 4 роки тому

    Anyone know howd he get his strum pattern to sound like that?!?!

    • @jackowasabi4985
      @jackowasabi4985 4 роки тому

      He finger picked

    • @flayvonmilord9237
      @flayvonmilord9237 4 роки тому

      Yes actually he was hybrid picking. But is there like a tutorial on that pattern or something?

  • @aPHYSICALretawd
    @aPHYSICALretawd 4 роки тому +2

    You buy yourself a silversky? Or is that another loaner?

    • @Guitargate
      @Guitargate  4 роки тому +2

      Brad Johnson loaner, but I want to buy it!

    • @bflo5210
      @bflo5210 4 роки тому +3

      @@Guitargate dude I want that red one baaaaad! Might be getting a used one soon🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🎸🎸🎸🎸

    • @Five0Music
      @Five0Music 4 роки тому +1

      I’m waiting on one just like it! This video makes me look forward to it even more! 2 more days.

    • @bflo5210
      @bflo5210 4 роки тому

      @@Five0Music let me know your thoughts when you get it... I haven't even played one... I hear good & bad about the neck & especially the feet wires... I gotta test drive one before I order one online

    • @Five0Music
      @Five0Music 4 роки тому

      B Floyd Will do. It’s scheduled for delivery tomorrow, so I’ll know quickly. I’ve sold two of my three Strats, just keeping a David Gilmour “Black Strat” tribute I built up from a 1997 Strat Plus. All of my gigging guitars are PRS (513s or 594s) so it’s my hope that moving from those to the SS will be easier than it was transitioning to a stock Strat. We’ll soon see!

  • @Hayden-sp1ol
    @Hayden-sp1ol Рік тому

    ...CHeers

  • @curtiseverett1671
    @curtiseverett1671 4 роки тому

    did you just say "scaleierly"?

  • @hanskung3278
    @hanskung3278 3 роки тому

    I really like these reaction videos but why are most of the bands so "off the wall?"

  • @derickg1488
    @derickg1488 4 роки тому +1

    So why aren't you playing Mayer's licks if you're playing his PRS then lol?

    • @MrMusicM67
      @MrMusicM67 4 роки тому +2

      Just cause you have an artist's guitar doesn't mean you gotta play like the artist all the time.

    • @derickg1488
      @derickg1488 4 роки тому

      @@MrMusicM67 I'm aware of that. My attempt at humor failed. I thought it was kind of neat that he's using a Grateful Dead Jam, for this lesson, while playing a John Mayer SS PRS. Tis all.

    • @ArienDH11
      @ArienDH11 4 роки тому

      @@derickg1488 PRS's have a fitting tone for GD

    • @derickg1488
      @derickg1488 4 роки тому

      @@ArienDH11 yeah, I did know that. My comment was meant as a joke, which it failed at coming across as one. The irony of playing Jerry's licks on a John Mayer SS PRS. Thats all I meant.

    • @chucklemuchuckle2170
      @chucklemuchuckle2170 4 роки тому +1

      @@derickg1488 heres a joke:
      John Mayer