Trey Anastasio's 12-11-97 Waste solo was immortalized in Bittersweet Motel, Todd Phillips' 2000 documentary about Phish. This minute and a half piece of musical perfection has singlehandedly spurred an entire generation of Phish fans to either pick up the guitar, or to at least take their current playing more seriously. I was one of [...]
In this Phish guitar tutorial, I'll show you how to play the song "Waste." From the song's conception in 1996, the band performed this song live in the key of C, and etched it into stone on Billy Breathes in the same key. Rather than demonstrate this pre-1997 version of this song, I'll show [...]
Today, we're going to learn Jimmy Herring’s first solo from Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, from the AMAZING Jazz is Dead record, Laughing Water. In this lesson, you’re going to learn how to play this solo, which i’ve broken down into four licks. We’ll talk about how to play these licks, and why they sound so good. [...]
This was supposed to be a short 5 minute guitar lesson about one of Trey Anastasio's signature techniques called The Anchor Slide. I was just going to transcribe "a couple" measures of the 12-9-95 Albany YEM because it contains an exceptionally beautiful demonstration this technique. But every next phrase that I paid attention to just got cooler and cooler [...]
For this week's lesson, we'll study one of John Mayer's beautiful guitar solos from the 7-16-2016 version of Sugaree with Dead and Company, at Fenway Park in Boston, MA. I'll break down this solo into four digestible licks and we'll talk about how you can use Mayer's soulful techniques in your own playing. [...]
In this guitar lesson, I’ll put Trey Anastasio’s solo on Limb By Limb from Story of the Ghost under the microscope, and break it down into 11 different licks. We’ll study the concepts behind this masterful piece of work, and then figure out how you can use these concepts in your own playing. [Title [...]
In this lesson we’ll take both of Jerry Garcia’s solos on “Me & My Uncle” from 4-24-1978 with the Grateful Dead, and break them down into 13 different licks. You’ll learn why this solo sounds as good as it does, and more importantly, you’ll learn how you can use these ideas in your own solos! [...]
In the eyes of many fans, YEM is the quintessential Phish song. It encapsulates so many of the things we love about the band, from the intricate arpeggios, beautiful chord movements, shifting time signatures, to the explosive funk throwdown that leads into a masterful bass/drum battle between Gordo and Fish. This arrangement attempts to capture [...]
