lostinanart
Verified buyer
09/05/24
Great course, but short
Garcia and Weir are pillars of pop guitar. Truefire needs more courses that deeply explore and pay homage to their musicianship.
Style of Grateful Dead (JamPlay)
Learn How to Play Guitar Like the Grateful Dead
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About this course
Immerse yourself in the psychedelic soundscape of one of the most influential bands in rock history with the "Style of Grateful Dead" course, brought to you by JamPlay and available exclusively on TrueFire. This course captures the essence of the Grateful Dead’s eclectic style, offering a comprehensive exploration of their innovative guitar techniques and musical approach.
Dive into the unique elements that define the Grateful Dead’s sound, including their signature improvisational style, complex chord progressions, and melodic lead playing. With detailed instruction and practical demonstrations, you'll learn how to replicate the intricate interplay between rhythm and lead that characterized the band's performances. The course also covers the use of effects and gear to achieve the authentic Grateful Dead tone.
Each lesson is meticulously designed to help you incorporate these techniques into your own playing. Follow along with precise tabs and notation, and practice with custom jam tracks that emulate the Grateful Dead’s live jam sessions. By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of how to create rich, dynamic guitar parts that resonate with the spirit of the Grateful Dead.
Join the "Style of Grateful Dead" course today and embark on a musical journey through the sounds of one of rock's most iconic bands. Elevate your playing and tap into the free-spirited, improvisational nature of the Grateful Dead, guided by TrueFire and JamPlay.
Dive into the unique elements that define the Grateful Dead’s sound, including their signature improvisational style, complex chord progressions, and melodic lead playing. With detailed instruction and practical demonstrations, you'll learn how to replicate the intricate interplay between rhythm and lead that characterized the band's performances. The course also covers the use of effects and gear to achieve the authentic Grateful Dead tone.
Each lesson is meticulously designed to help you incorporate these techniques into your own playing. Follow along with precise tabs and notation, and practice with custom jam tracks that emulate the Grateful Dead’s live jam sessions. By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of how to create rich, dynamic guitar parts that resonate with the spirit of the Grateful Dead.
Join the "Style of Grateful Dead" course today and embark on a musical journey through the sounds of one of rock's most iconic bands. Elevate your playing and tap into the free-spirited, improvisational nature of the Grateful Dead, guided by TrueFire and JamPlay.
What you'll learn
- Apply proper picking patterns for shuffle feels with syncopated sixteenths
- Play Jerry Garcia-style counterpoint melody lines with proper attack and articulation
- Execute Bob Weir-style rhythm counterpoint parts
- Voice and move diminished 7th chords down the neck through inversions
- Coordinate staccato articulation using both left and right hand muting
Release date: 05/08/2018 • 4h 02m runtime
Sample lessons
Melody Concept, Garcia and the Major Pentatonic
Playing Example
Rhythm Concept, Polyryhthm
Playing Example
Melody Concept, Rhythm Groups
Playing Example
Rhythm Concept, Floating the One
Playing Example
What's included
36 lessons • 18 charts • 18 Jam Tracks
Series Introduction
Series Introduction to "The Style of Grateful Dead"
Rhythm Concept, Bob Weir Chord Voices
In this lesson we will take our first look into Bob Weir's approach to rhythm and voicings.
Melody Concept, Garcia and the Major Pentatonic
In this Lesson we will take a look at Jerry Garcia's use of the pentatonic scale and ways you can pull melodic ideas out of this scale. You will play over A, G, an E chords and gain an understanding on how Garcia fit them into his guitar playing.
Melody Concept, Garcia and the Major Pentatonic
In this Lesson we will take a look at Jerry Garcia's use of the pentatonic scale and ways you can pull melodic ideas out of this scale. You will play over A, G, an E chords and gain an understanding on how Garcia fit them into his guitar playing.
Melody Concept, Counterpoint
In this lesson we will take our first look into how The Dead would put different melody guitar parts together, to create counterpoints. Dave will guide you through different techniques on how to accomplish this.
Melody Concept, Counterpoint
In this lesson we will take our first look into how The Dead would put different melody guitar parts together, to create counterpoints. Dave will guide you through different techniques on how to accomplish this.
Melody Concept, Bob Weir Counterpoint
In this lesson we will take a look at a counterpoint part that can go along with the lower register melody we looked at in Lesson 4.
+ 29 more lessons
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Osokin
Verified buyer
12/10/23
Enlightening!
Dave isaacs has done a great job of diving deep into the guitar styles of Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, to produce a course that is both thorough and enlightening. Lots of great ideas and examples to enrich your own playing.
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