Enjoying this lesson on Christmas Eve, Gabriel. Would love a return to the staircase as this was a great window into the patterns of Jerry's playing. Happy Holidays from Michigan!
I really am interested in learning some of what you do but you never answered my email. Well I'll keep watching/learning from here. I appreciate your work and contributions to all of us.
Your a great player. I always enjoy your insight. You have some unique ideas on Garcia technique. Others I enjoy are Jacksnax and Mickbeth music and Carlo Zakers among others such as weeping willow guitar for that Jerry sound. Amarguitar is also good.
I enjoy your great playing and your very clear teaching style, but I think you are mistaken here, as far as music theory goes, in how you label the B and E chords as the I and IV chord of Sugaree. I would say that it's important to think of the mixolydian as always corresponding to the 5 (V) chord of the key of the song. We know that the I chord is the 1,3,5 of major scale and the V chord is the 5,7,2 of the major scale (though it's convenient to think of any chord's notes as starting with it's own 1 note, it's place relative to the major scale of the actual key still matters). B mixolydian is the same scale notes as E major (except we are counting from 5 note to the 5 note of the E major scale), which makes the B the V chord and the E the I chord and the I chord is always the key of the song. The 3 note chords of any given key, written as their place in the major scale of the key, are as follows (using Roman numerals like the old jazz sheets do): I: 1,3,5, IIm: 2,4,6, IIIm: 3,5,7, IV: 4,6,1, V: 5,7,2, VIm: 6,1,3, VIIdim: 7,2,4. The chords can be extended to 4 notes by continuing the same 'skip a note' pattern, thus for example the 4 notes of the V chord are 5,7,2,4. And notice that here the 4 note is the b7 note of the V chord relative to itself (by relative to itself I mean starting with B note as the 1 for the B7 chord) which is why the V7 chord is a dominant 7 and not major 7 chord. Any chords used in a song that are outside of the 'in key' chords are 'mixed harmony' or 'out of key' chords and of course they are used in many great songs including by Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead, and sometimes there's enough mixed harmony that a song's key can be thought of in different ways or as changing key in parts. 'Sugaree' however uses only the 'in key' chords of E major (aka the key of E), for example the chorus goes from F#m (IIm: 2,4,6 notes of E major) to C#m (VIm: 6,1,3 notes of E major) to A (IV: 4,6,1 notes of E major) etc. The fact that the F# chord is minor is an indicator that the song is in E, because if the song was in B (and B the I chord) then the F# would be the V chord and a major/dominant7 chord. Because 'Sugaree' is in the key of E, the B chord is the V chord. And it's helpful to have the E major scale in mind as a home base when playing over all the different chords of Sugaree, even the chromatic and out of scale notes can still be thought of relative to E major.
The correct term is chromatic BELOW approach notes, not staircase. Jerry Garcia would use chromatic BELOW approach notes and ABOVE approach notes often in his CAGED shapes. You should listen to a lot of GD live albums to get more examples of garcia using these below and above approaches notes to make a video lesson about using them
These videos about Jerry tech and ideas are my favorite and the most useful to me on the internet. Thank you!!!
Glad you like them!
Thank you my friend, loving this lesson 🙏
Thank you for watching!
Enjoying this lesson on Christmas Eve, Gabriel. Would love a return to the staircase as this was a great window into the patterns of Jerry's playing. Happy Holidays from Michigan!
Thanks man, hope you have a great Christmas and New Years!
I really am interested in learning some of what you do but you never answered my email. Well I'll keep watching/learning from here. I appreciate your work and contributions to all of us.
Gabriel, absolutely love your passion. It really shows. Inspiring.
Thanks homie!!
Wonderful video! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
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Beautiful lesson. Thank you
You are very welcome!
Excellent! Nice explanation.
Glad it was helpful!
Your a great player. I always enjoy your insight. You have some unique ideas on Garcia technique. Others I enjoy are Jacksnax and Mickbeth music and Carlo Zakers among others such as weeping willow guitar for that Jerry sound. Amarguitar is also good.
thanks so much David, glad you enjoy the videos! All those guys are great, Jack is a good friend, he's the man!
Great content Gabe
Thanks Kev!
Great stuff. Last week I was working on very similar ideas with the context being Morning Dew.
Thanks man! Love ‘Morning Dew’!!!
John Mayer does a great Sugaree. It's one of those songs where he approaches the sound of Jerry's playing more than some of the others.
Also, great playing man. You're a great teacher as well
He does! Thanks for watching and for that comment!
🤯I know the sound, but didn't know that's how it was done
Hope the video helped!
What amp and pedals might you be using im this demo
Hey man, thanks for watching! Gear wise, PRS Silver Sky, TC hall of fame mini into my Welagen ODS amp. Thats going into Luna recording software!
I enjoy your great playing and your very clear teaching style, but I think you are mistaken here, as far as music theory goes, in how you label the B and E chords as the I and IV chord of Sugaree.
I would say that it's important to think of the mixolydian as always corresponding to the 5 (V) chord of the key of the song. We know that the I chord is the 1,3,5 of major scale and the V chord is the 5,7,2 of the major scale (though it's convenient to think of any chord's notes as starting with it's own 1 note, it's place relative to the major scale of the actual key still matters). B mixolydian is the same scale notes as E major (except we are counting from 5 note to the 5 note of the E major scale), which makes the B the V chord and the E the I chord and the I chord is always the key of the song.
The 3 note chords of any given key, written as their place in the major scale of the key, are as follows (using Roman numerals like the old jazz sheets do):
I: 1,3,5, IIm: 2,4,6, IIIm: 3,5,7, IV: 4,6,1, V: 5,7,2, VIm: 6,1,3, VIIdim: 7,2,4.
The chords can be extended to 4 notes by continuing the same 'skip a note' pattern, thus for example the 4 notes of the V chord are 5,7,2,4. And notice that here the 4 note is the b7 note of the V chord relative to itself (by relative to itself I mean starting with B note as the 1 for the B7 chord) which is why the V7 chord is a dominant 7 and not major 7 chord.
Any chords used in a song that are outside of the 'in key' chords are 'mixed harmony' or 'out of key' chords and of course they are used in many great songs including by Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead, and sometimes there's enough mixed harmony that a song's key can be thought of in different ways or as changing key in parts. 'Sugaree' however uses only the 'in key' chords of E major (aka the key of E), for example the chorus goes from F#m (IIm: 2,4,6 notes of E major) to C#m (VIm: 6,1,3 notes of E major) to A (IV: 4,6,1 notes of E major) etc. The fact that the F# chord is minor is an indicator that the song is in E, because if the song was in B (and B the I chord) then the F# would be the V chord and a major/dominant7 chord. Because 'Sugaree' is in the key of E, the B chord is the V chord. And it's helpful to have the E major scale in mind as a home base when playing over all the different chords of Sugaree, even the chromatic and out of scale notes can still be thought of relative to E major.
The correct term is chromatic BELOW approach notes, not staircase. Jerry Garcia would use chromatic BELOW approach notes and ABOVE approach notes often in his CAGED shapes. You should listen to a lot of GD live albums to get more examples of garcia using these below and above approaches notes to make a video lesson about using them
haha, i call it staircase sorry! I listen to a lot of dead!