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 [...]
Mike Gordon has to be one of the most criminally underrated bass players in rock history. His style is so enigmatic, and when you watch and listen to him play, it's undeniable that he has a tangible mastery of the instrument. In this video, you're going to learn each of Mike's bass parts in [...]
So many artists spend their lives toiling on the road and in the studio, working their fingers to the bone and leaving their personal lives in ruin as they become a victim of their own success. That's the reason why Phish, one of the hardest working acts of our time, took an eight hundred [...]
In this video, we'll break down bars 69-92 of Trey Anastasio's guitar solo from the Went Gin with Phish, which is the 8-17-97 Bathtub Gin. We'll discuss techniques that Trey uses when improvising a solo, such as switching between a chord-tone based approach versus focusing on a blues-based approach. Full PDF of Trey [...]
In today's lesson, we'll break down bars 45-68 of Trey Anastasio's 8-17-97 Bathtub Gin guitar solo from the Great went with Phish, and discuss techniques that Trey uses when improvising a solo. For example, we'll see how he improvises static melodies that work over several moving chords. You'll also learn how Trey uses the [...]
Hi, I'm Amar from amarguitar.com! In part 1 of this series, we talked about the foundational essence of what makes the 8-17-97 Bathtub Gin by Phish so good. In part 2, we broke down bars 5-28 of Trey Anastasio's guitar solo. In this lesson, we'll break down bars 29-44 and discuss techniques that [...]
