Every song presents a unique challenge when you try to arrange it for solo guitar. For Phish's Silent in the Morning, the hurdle is that Mike and Trey don't strum typical chords throughout the song. Rather, they played intricate harmonized riffs throughout the entire form. (They use a similar technique on the verse of Theme [...]
The Horse by Phish always symbolized the end of a journey to me, not just because it happens to be the second to last tune on Rift. The song is always played & sung solo by Trey, which reinforces its lonely, haunting vibe. PDF of The Horse by Phish, arranged for solo/fingerstyle guitar [...]
There's so much to love about Phish's Say it to me S.A.N.T.O.S., I loved it from the first time I heard it. Here's my attempt at doing a little chord melody version of this tune. Gear used: Guitar Reverb Generator PDF of Say it to me SANTOS for solo guitar Desktop users: [...]
I love arranging tunes into solo guitar chord melodies because it's like putting together a little musical jigsaw puzzle. It's a process of rearranging the pieces and trying different voicings, chords, or ideas, until you discover what fits and what doesn't. Here's the B section of The Landlady, written by Trey Anastasio and debuted [...]
Ween performed Roses are Free three times in the summer of 1997, until Phish covered the song in Rochester, New York later that winter. Dean and Gene were initially so disgusted, that they shelved the song for over two years. But on April 3rd, 1998 Phish performed a groundbreaking 27 minute version of Roses [...]
I grew up watching All In the Family and it remains one of my favorite shows to this day. Not too long ago, I played a jazz gig and someone in the audience requested "Those Were The Days," the classic theme song from All In the Family, written by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams. [...]
Jerry Garcia was one of the most iconic musicians of the 20th century. He was a multifaceted professional: a singer, songwriter, pedal steel player, 5 string banjoist. Jerry is most well known as a guitar player who blended rock, folk, blues, county, bluegrass and countless other influences into a style that was all his [...]
I love it when a band or artist drastically changes the vibe and structure of a song when they're covering it. Soulive's cover of the Beatles' Taxman is a perfect example of that. As mentioned in Wikipedia about George Harrison's inspiration for writing Taxman: 'Taxman' was when I first realized that even though we [...]
Get Out Of My Life, Woman has got to be one of my favorite soul tunes. It was written by the brilliant Allen Toussaint in 1966 and made famous by Lee Dorsey on The New Lee Dorsey. Of course, it was also a staple in the Jerry Garcia Band's live rotation. Here's a version [...]
What up guys this is Amar from amarguitar.com, in this video I'll give you some tips on improvising over They Love Each Other, one of my favorite 3 chord Grateful Dead tunes. A lot of guitar players complain that when they improvise, it sounds like they're playing scales. One of the most effective steps [...]
