Dude, this is a badass lesson. So generous of you to do these.

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for saying that!

This video has been a revelation for me!! I've been having trouble with the mixo mode just like you described it. You can easily get playing mixo all the time without really thinking what chord goes underneath your playing. I really like how you explained it and I see how this aproach makes you play with intention and really think what are you trying to say with each chord. Thanks for the lesson!

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

That’s great!

I had a backstage pass one night in Oakland and heard Jerry ripping 8 tone dominant patterns to warm-up

Great lesson. First time I've heard Garcia's approach explained in this way and it makes perfect sense. 100% bluegrass inspired.

@drogba4evah672

3 ай бұрын

Do you give lessons in Brooklyn?

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 ай бұрын

@@drogba4evah672 yes as well as on zoom

@gam1471

21 күн бұрын

Agreed re. the bluegrass influence. Garcia was also an excellent banjoist - I imagine you might have heard him, but in case not, here he is playing some great licks on banjo in a bluegrass context - a classic album, well regarded by the fans: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a593lrWxXbrbfqg.html

Beautifully done! Thank you!

I remember when I figured this out, it ruined my guitar playing for about a year because I had to rethink my whole approach. But I sure am glad I did

Great way to look at things. First time I've heard it, too. Thanks, man.

Brother you are such a beast of a player and an absolute gem of a teacher. Thanks so much for these! 🎸🤘✌️

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I really appreciate the feedback

I’m watching all of your lessons, thank you for the free content, seriously 😊

Very well explained -- awesome stuff. Thank you for sharing.

Great lesson. I've watched it multiple times. True of several of your lessons tbh. This gets at such a crucial aspect of soloing well that I am continuing to work towards. The concepts your teaching are consistent with both bluegrass and country guitar lessons Ive taken. Thanks for all you do!

This is the most faithful Jerry-style playing I have heard from anyone and I have been searching for answers high and low. 👏👏👏👏👏

@jacksnax4guitar460

19 күн бұрын

@@amoblahblah thanks…oddly enough there aren’t any actual Jerry licks here. It’s just what I hear as his approach from 69-72 which is some of my favorite stuff. More sophisticated/chromatic ideas by 73-78 and then on it’s full a blown combo platter.

@amoblahblah

13 күн бұрын

@@jacksnax4guitar460 Yeah, that’s what I’ve been looking for. You understand his style like no one else.

Respect for using the middle pickup position on your Strat. The least talked about position, but frequently the "Goldilocks" position of round and glassy (neck) and bright attack (bridge)!

@jacksnax4guitar460

3 ай бұрын

Agreed…overlooked it myself for many moons! Thanks for the comment🎸🎸🎸

@JohnRampino

Ай бұрын

Yeah, but there's nothing better than neck pickup

This spoke to me and will help me break out of the overlay gravy in my playing. Thank you.

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

I had no idea how many folks would latch onto the “gravy” metaphor!

What a great approach to not getting lost in the sauce and a tether to the chord tones....so you can explore without missing the changes ❤️

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly the point👍😊✌️ Happy you found this useful!

Awesome. Thx Very clearly communicated and helpful.

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you thought so…I get all spun up on coffee and then I’m prone to a good babble. Glad it didn’t go off the rails!😉

Choosing your lessons on here to learn soloing and improvising was one of the best choices I've ever made. It was intimidating at first and i had no idea what you were talking about for a while, but trying to keep up and not taking the easy route has made all the difference in my playing now. And you're so right about tabs being a waste of time, which is something i probably would've used as opposed to figuring things out on my own. Thanks for everything.

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 ай бұрын

Hey…I read this earlier today, but had a few things to knock out. Really wonderful to read comments such as yours. I’m so happy to think of players out there putting things together that eluded them in the past with some help from these lessons. Keep going!

thank you for making this one!

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Of course

Hit it out of the park yet again Jack! I remember the rather scant times Garcia was ever covered or "taught" in Guitar Mags throughout the 80s and 90s, this same overly generalized and flat-out lazy miss-the-mark concept of distilling Garcia's style to just play the Mixolydian mode was trotted out over and over. Talk about taking players down a proverbial dark hollow to flailing aimless noodling. The sculptor of sound that was Jerry G, had the flawless ability to thread phrases together by playing the changes, or that is how I see it and that is what I hear here in your fine approach to breaking down his style of soloing. Truthfully, not only here but in pretty well all your Garcia focussed soloing videos and really beyond. The approach is much like the thinking in jazz and bluegrass, both styles of which Garcia was clearly an erudite student. Now perhaps the Dead repertoire did not always plumb the depths of the sophistication of changes like a Lush Life, Giant Steps or All the Things You Are etc. on the bulk of their tunes. Nonetheless, the thinking of how to approach a Bertha or Estimated Prophet jam was fairly similar to how jazzers and obviously bluegrass musicians do the same. Each chord of let's say a longer duration is treated as a change and deserves its own scale/tailored pool of notes. Slap together some chromatic passing tones you are well on your way to threading the needle to what it was Jerry was up to much more than just play the Mixolydian mode. In essence, mi amigo Jack, what you have done again so well in highlighting here and thankfully putting another nail in the Garcia soloing = Myxolidian myth. To your credit, you have successfully done this over and over as demonstrated in a slew of your videos on both the perhaps simpler 2 and 3-chord jams and moreover on the advanced tunes like Crazy Fingers. I mean even looking at the Garcia Chuck Berry interpretations (which I absolutely loved, and I never could really wrap my head around what he was up to until I saw your excellent detailed take on the style despite the CB tunes being just mostly I IV Vs), Advancing on of course and as much of your material highlights time and again each chord major, minor, dominant or diminished is its own universe and the key is to cull your lines from what best fits each chord and threads to the next in the changes of the song. This lesson is superb in providing a simple 2-chord jump-off for the beginner to the intermediate players to wrap their heads around. I have been playing for 30-plus years this music and I also got something out of it and moreover being reminded of how misguided the Garcia = Myxolidian myth used to be and all too frequently lazily brandished about. Again I cannot thank you enough Jack for your superb content. One of these days when I muster up a thought on what it is I want to learn from you beyond your 100s of videos I will ask you for a lesson. In the meantime, I hope you are enjoying Delaware, absolutely love your videos coming from there and overall in general this is my favourite channel to learn this style of music. Keep up the great and very generous work. Many thanks again, from the fires on the mountains of Spain. Paco

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

What an incredible comment! I love Spain… heading to San Sebastián in August.

GREAT lesson man. Easily one of the best breakdowns of Garcia's approach. Thanks.

wow - thanks, Jack - pretty simple concept once someone explains it as clearly as you did...super helpful ! I'm just getting "good" enough to start exploring some of these soloing ideas and you described me to a tee - smothering stuff with mixo throughout and it just never really sounding like that sweet spot mix of organized yet improvised... your idea observations of tension / resolution really describes the missing pieces so often for me... So appreciate your awesome Dead lessons !

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

That’s really what I’m hoping to do!!! 😊

Thank you for an excellent lesson - the major pentatonic add b3 is a great color to add one’s pallet ⚡️🎸🎶 super choice of Bertha as an example of its application 💀🌹

Appreciate your insights my man!

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Really great lesson!

Wow, okay the buck stops right here. This is exactly what I've been looking for after wading through countless videos and opinions which have been so far off it's absurd. Thank you so much for the clarity.

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Hey! Thanks for the comment. I hope it helps you on your journey.

@TheCandyman75

Жыл бұрын

@@jacksnax4guitar460 It really has, thanks again

I learned how to think/play this way you are describing when I learned to play country lead guitar 25 years ago….alot of country is very very similar in thinking…. COOl!!!!

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

100 %

I was just going to request a lesson of this nature: "playing the changes" in songs less complex than finger-busting jazz standards. Now I don't have to. Fabulous!

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

I have a bunch of those on a playlist called “Making The Changes”

What a great lesson.

Thank you, you are an excellent teacher. I appreciate ya a lot. Garcia followed Clarence White a lot in the early days… he just loved Bluegrass. So it makes perfect sense that he evolved improvisational lines the way you’ve described in this lesson.

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Doug!

you’ve earned my sub! great lesson sir. I was just thinking this week how i have only really ever pour the G Mixo gravy on the whole thing, particularly pentatonic at the 12th. Always comes out sounding lost. Going to shed this one again. This really helped, thanks dude! Love the sweet and salty metaphor too

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching… and for the comment. That’s what I was hoping would happen.

The pro's always make it understandably simple to understand, then harder to play. I guess that's why man created practice!? Great channel, great teacher!

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

Great lesson thank you sir very nice

This was a really cool lesson! I got a total perspective shift. I found myself using the flat 3rd to orient me when going up and down the scale.

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for this! You had me at gravy.....

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the laugh. I appreciate a good sense of humor.

sounds very happy Piano like...no one plays like this anymore....almost a bygone era......thanks for the video

Nice lesson. Jerry's solo for Bertha on Skull and Roses is one of my favorites.

@jacksnax4guitar460

3 ай бұрын

Yes…so if you’d like to see more of that, look up my Bertha lesson very connected to that solo

Hey Jack, great lesson. Certainly applicable to us Allman fanatics too.

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! To some extent it’s just a color…it doesn’t belong to any one player. But I do think it’s more heavily favored by JG and to some extend the Allmans. Hope you’re well! J

Hi Jack. Thanks for your tutorials. I stumbled across your site after watching A Long Strange Trip. I’ve always been confused by a I IV vamp and as to which is the correct key. Mixo in C or G did not produce the sound I wanted to hear. Now, your tonal centres clears that up. I’m using your tutorials to inform my Emando playing (after learning some violin as a kid I couldn’t get a grip on the guitar fret board). I’m grateful that you refer to notes and not only fret positions (which are useless to me)? Garcia’s playing and the major pentatonic including a b3 is very much a part of Niles Hokkanen’s bluegrass teaching which you now affirm and show how Jerry uses it. Thanks again.

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Hey! Thanks a ton for the feedback…good to know it’s making an impact. I’m happy to hear my approach is making sense and isn’t too out to lunch.

Or image being wonderfuly wisked away too Deleware ??? , HI I'm in Deleware ..... just kidding I'm super greatful for your tasty Snacks !!! They are absolutely Divine , Jack thanks so much for this and tons of love ❤ from Philadelphia!!!

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice comment! Please check out the other lessons in the playlist…all kinds of stuff here.👍👍👍

@jamesjones-rp6cl

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacksnax4guitar460 Thank you sir !!! You are my go to channel for Dead /Garcia playing style !!!! Hey could you do a lesson on playing in the pocket ??

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesjones-rp6cl Hi James…we’ll, that’s not something you can really teach. You can work on your time, inner clock and time feel a lot with a metronome and a looper. I for one love getting lost in playing a groove or figure for 5-10 minutes without changing a thing. Just keep playing it over and over while focusing on NOT changing any elements, only deepening your commitment to the tempo. Once you can consistently do it like that you’ll know when your playing is out of the groove. Then it’s just a matter of staying dialed into the rhythm. Move your body, a little physical connection is required in my experience…and simplify what you’re playing until you can lock into the groove.

Favorite teacher alert! Love the food/flavor theme.. mixolydian gravy

@BlackMath69

2 жыл бұрын

Think sometimes it’s referred to as “country blues scale”

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlackMath69 I guess someone may use that term. Either way, it’s a really essential part of the Garcia playbook. Thanks for your supportive comment! Very kind.✌️😊👍

This is great. as someone newer to improvisation, painting some song with mixo makes it harder for me to think about the building blocks of being melodic, which is really just using the pentatonic scale. I’m more focused on just playing the “correct” notes in the scale or mode. This is a great way to think about it and as you become an expert in this approach I bet you have a much better understanding of when to add those extensions.

@jacksnax4guitar460

10 ай бұрын

Yes…100% my thought.

great stuff, i was beginning to come to this realization. its really about the notes in the chords themselves, you dont need anything else ahahaha. its so hard to see the notes when jamming, i can see how it takes years to get good at this hahahah.

Great lesson, Jack! It sometimes seems like Garcia rarely played a major third without approaching it from a half step below, though that is probably overstating it a bit. Interesting thought about his tendency originating from the bluegrass G-run. Never quite made that connection, but it totally makes sense.

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

Right? Seems like it could be that…just kind of an understood modification he knew could take place

Really great lesson. It's helping me push forward from feeling stuck. I've gotten around to changing over chords and not just playing in a mode, but I was using triads and chord shapes (nothing wrong with that but I was feeling stuck on it). Thinking of the major pentatonic with a flat third just really nailed it for me. I have heard that all over Garcia's playing and just thought of it as chromaticism. That opened things up for me, but it felt kind of wild. Thinking of hunting the flat third has clicked with me. Funny thing is learned to play too many notes by practicing modes. Now I have to undo the muscle memory and try and drop the four and seven more, right? Not sure I got that right. Anyway, when I do, it sounds much more musical. Thanks for the help!

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Basically yes…ditch the b7 and to some extent the 4th degree of the scale.

Bingo! That with a bit of chromatics and that is one sweet sauce.

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ian! Thanks man.

Strong opinion is fine, the sounds I'm hearing in this lesson fit a perfect JG GD performance.

That's some spicy honey. Thank you!

@jacksnax4guitar460

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

The rip at 4:24 was sick

Let us not overlook the fine Bertha vocals.

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Yeo the Skull n Roses version is really great...not sure how much studio work was done afterward.

I've been digging your videos. You've given me a bunch of different ideas of how to approach soloing. It never comes off as good as you, but it gives me a strong platform to start from. I'm curious what rig you have that strat plugged into? Sounds really nice! I love your playing man, keep posting videos

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! That’s a Kemper stage profiler

The Dead have a good amount of chord progressions that center around the 5 chord which is why everyone defaults to mixo. Bertha is not a song centered around the 5 chord. Mixo works to solo on some of their songs but it is not a 1 size fits all approach. Focusing on chord tones/intervals is always going to sound better no matter what the chord progression is. I like your approach to add in some tension with the flat third. It sounds good!

@jacksnax4guitar460

22 күн бұрын

Agreed Donny

Hey would you do a one-on-one lesson with this material? Would love to see fingerings for the scale in a few different positions to be able to play up and down the neck

Just became the 8k sub

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 ай бұрын

Wow! That’s cool…had no idea that’s how many folks are here. Thanks!!!

👉 Jacksnax is the best 👍👍👍

So good! And great playing as well! Great discussion. Now how do I learn to play the scales that way?

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Try slowing it down using the speed control on YT until it becomes easy.

Tremendous video, Jack. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Are you available for remote lessons?

@jacksnax4guitar460

3 ай бұрын

Yes Jack_devine@hotmail.com

Hi Jack, your guitar sounds great, you are a gifted player, but I can't stop staring at the bridge on your guitar Haha!and wondering about the intonation, it sounds spot on, is it? It sounds good to me, you have Garcia down on an exceptional level, very high level, remarkable

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Seems ok to me and my tech

"why would I put that in my stew"

man your rig sounds great. How are you micing your amp for this video?

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

My phone! I’m about 2 feet from the speaker at very moderate volume…just a little louder than my voice

Can you link to the other Bertha lesson? I am also interested in Althea (and as I think of it, Cassidy...maybe you could create a GD women playlist haha). Mainly want the prior Bertha lesson to link up the ideas in this lesson. Sorry about the tangent

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

It’s fine! There’s a GD lessons playlist here. But here’s a link to the Bertha kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZXd5mNijZdeop6w.html

Dude thanks for the food analogies....my brain just clicks with your teaching style. How can I get more involved in your lessons? got a patreon with stuff i can download?

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

For now I just teach privately

NICE GUITAR

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

Hi G Thanks amigo…I picked it up a little while back and had I tweaked to my specs.

Great lesson. Am I correct in understanding this to mean playing major blues scale off of each major chords root?

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t call it major blues scale. Major pentatonic w/an approach tone into the 3rd.

@jasonvergnano1218

Жыл бұрын

@@jacksnax4guitar460 so like an enclosure mindset? Downstairs neighbor.

Great lesson. Jerry does this a lot with the chord changes in Franklin's Tower. Is the b3 from a country blues scale?

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think of it in those terms. Just an approach tone. It gives a nice bluesy sound, a little tension…before the release.

Hey, I heard ya say you’re in Bethany beach at the end there & was wondering if ya wanna try an jam sometime & I might be interested in learning some scale idea’s from ya too. I been playing for 30 years now but never took a lesson, learned theory or learned all those scales. I more or less will usually get chords to a song & kinda play it my own way & as far as leads go, I learned a blues scale watch a “learn to play guitar overnight” VHS vid for 5 min once. Then one night sleeping out for Pink Floyd tix in ‘94, someone taught me on the B & the high E some scales with minor’s/half step patterns (just on those 2 stings) & the rest I took on my own from there. I mostly play in the same kinda pattern area on different parts of the neck to get a blues or country sound depending on the song. I’d like to learn a lot more & have some original’s if ya wanna hear “Ride or Die” & “Read between the Lies” on my channel. Those vids are the first time ever playing the songs at 4am, after I just finished writing them that night. Not sure how to message ya my number but lemme know if ya wanna try to get together one of these days. My mom lives at Bethany. I’m in California but moving back any day now. ✌️🤡☝🏼❤️

@jacksnax4guitar460

5 күн бұрын

@@hustlaron Hey! I’m not in Bethany this summer…sorry!!!

This is a really great video. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to filter through the modal conversation with this soloing approach. Just to clarify, you are saying you would play the major Pentatonix scale over each cord, with the exception of the third being flattened. Right?

@jacksnax4guitar460

6 ай бұрын

No…I’d ADD the b3 (of the root note)to the 5 notes of the pentatonic scale. So that’s 1,2,b3,3,5,6….

@jasonmlakar16

6 ай бұрын

@@jacksnax4guitar460 so for example. chord playing is Cmajor. You solo with 5 notes of cmajor pentatonic scale. C-D-Eb-G-A

@jacksnax4guitar460

6 ай бұрын

@@jasonmlakar16 No add E natural as well

Jammie Pants? Aren't those illegal in Delaware? Thanks Jack. Great lesson!!

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

They’re beach pants! But I do occasionally sleep in them.

another great lesson. In hindsight you could have started with the lester runs. No doubt getting comfortable with that sound is quite key to the approach you are suggesting.

@jacksnax4guitar460

6 ай бұрын

I suppose…thanks

the maj pent plus the minor pent is th mixolidian minus th flat 3rd

@jacksnax4guitar460

5 ай бұрын

What’s your point exactly?

Question: if the chord is minor, does the same logic apply but using the minor pentatonic instead?

@jacksnax4guitar460

25 күн бұрын

Not really

Good stuff cuz “don’t sound like Garcia”

"third seeking" behavior

How do you get that tone

@jacksnax4guitar460

5 ай бұрын

Strat Middle pickup Thick pick Lots of treble Not too much bass A little overdrive Lots of reverb (with little bass content) A little analog delay

Where is the bertha lesson you mentioned?

@MrGroot-nh2ny

2 жыл бұрын

Nevermind me. Found it. Email will come for a lesson lol

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrGroot-nh2ny Glad you found it… was about to leave this here kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZXd5mNijZdeop6w.html

Are you using the flat third as a passing note? Seems like Garcia doesn't dwell on it.

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

Yep…just passing through. Use it instead of the 2 when heading towards the 3rd. Conversely on the way to the root use the b3 then 2nd.

What kind of strat is that?

@jacksnax4guitar460

Жыл бұрын

It’s a partscaster Warmoth neck Clapton profile. MJT ash body…distressed.

I feel like I understand exactly what you're saying but what I think is interesting is I would use every single lick you play for Bertha to show someone how to play like Trey To me the note that you're hammering on and trying to teach here really makes that Vermont jam band sound, and I always felt that Jerry didn't fall into that category of that simple let's add this note lesson Wow I don't think it's as simple as mixolydian either I certainly don't think Jerry was living on this note you keep bringing up Over the years certainly you can hear that that note doesn't matter at all to him I mean the later years he got pretty lazy but you definitely have a certain year down pat but I would not put it on the overall lesson until people realized it was necessary to play like somebody else, Because really that is just a handful of Trey licks over and over

@lemmedoodis1296

3 ай бұрын

I don't mean it disrespectfully at all I just mean that if I kept doing what you're doing I wouldn't be in a grateful Dead cover band I would be in a phish band, because it doesn't matter that you're doing it on a Stratocaster it really is that lesson I think you should relabel this video for that it sounds like everything tray does in one lesson at least that lesson to sound like that particular version of Trey but I think that's in the back of the mind of a decent Jerry player LOL No ill will I'm just saying from my point of view

@jacksnax4guitar460

3 ай бұрын

@@lemmedoodis1296 Agree to disagree

@lemmedoodis1296

3 ай бұрын

@@jacksnax4guitar460 be that as it may I will be applying this lesson to how to play Caspian a little bit better.. and I don't mean that in a bad way I'm wrong about a lot of things, but like I said even on that strat I hear some of the ginger

@lemmedoodis1296

3 ай бұрын

I'm just saying if I put that up when I was jamming I would have lead into the something that was going to link something with something else and had nothing to do with the dead. This is where you tell me a date to listen to

@jacksnax4guitar460

3 ай бұрын

@@lemmedoodis1296 early 70s

I think you wouldnt use the G mixolydian any way. Isnt the song in G ?

@jacksnax4guitar460

6 ай бұрын

No it’s in C actually.:.just starts on G (V chord)

@jacksnax4guitar460

6 ай бұрын

No it’s in C actually.:.just starts on G (V chord)

@bmoon12

6 ай бұрын

But the chords in the song are D C G Am a chords in G major. The beginnig chords a GG CC G GG CC. Then the verse goes into C which is the 4 it resolves to the G which is the one, or at least thats how I here it.

@bmoon12

6 ай бұрын

kzread.infoostGWdWFths?feature=shared

Dude

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

I think that’s a compliment…right?

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

If so… thank you👍

@jsl9265

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah man. These lessons are amazing. Clarifies stuff that seemed mysterious.

Modes are not the way to play over chords, because following changes means taking away notes from the key that are irrelevant to the shifting tonal centre. Modes contain all the notes of the key and all the ear hears is "key of c" or whatever. It sounds bland and unmusical. Less is more

@jacksnax4guitar460

Ай бұрын

Agreed!

Do you ever find it frustrating to teach guitar players who have little knowledge of music theory?

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

Not really…it’s a bit more of a challenge because we have an extra step of developing a way of communicating the ideas and sounds. So that’s what theory is good for, establishing a vocabulary that helps us specify what we’re discussing. Once that nomenclature exists…if the player is doing their part things fall into place quickly. I tend to use theory as a way of explaining WHY something sounds the way it does rather than using it to guide me towards a sound or series of notes. That stuff I try to feel and hear rather than think my way through.

@alexchng

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacksnax4guitar460 I appreciate the response. I'm self-taught and only played the blues for a while. Don't know much music theory, but when I watch your videos, there are moments where I piece together what I do know with what you're articulating. You are a brilliant teacher and brilliant guitar player. 🎸⚡🤘😎

@jacksnax4guitar460

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexchng Hey! Thanks Alex. There are plenty of great players that don’t do the theory thing. It’s helpful though.