Mix ye a major, mix ye a minor, be left in awe of the MAN - Jimmy Herring :)

Herring’s best friend at music school was Jeff Buckley. Jeff was 17, Jimmy in early 20s. He says of Buckley in an interview: I’ll tell you something about him: That cat had the best ear of anybody I have ever been around. This was before the days of being able to digitally slow down Coltrane solos.This cat transcribed all these Coltrane solos, all this stuff from Steve Vai’s Flex-able album, Dregs stuff, Alan Holdsworth solos-you name it. It was inspirational. I was trying to do the same thing, but he was the first guy I met who was as into it as I was-but he was much further along.

The drummer is Jeff Sipe, he’s an absolute monster and has played with literally everyone

I toured with Jimmy in Aquarium Rescue Unit 1995-1996 . Jeff Sipe was the original drummer in that band. Jimmy knows his instrument so well.. He wrote the syllabus for the guitar course at Atlanta Institute of Music.i was very impressed with your ear. A great lesson as I’m an accomplished guitarist as drums are my main instrument .i think its fascinating that someone like yourself can break down harmony as quick and pretty accurate..👍

Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit? Jimmy Herring, Jeff Sipe(AptQ258), Oteil Burbridge, and Matt Mundy(Mandolin)!!! The Original Force of Nature, I promise you!! Check it out and spread the word!

Jimmy is above most of our pay grades. The bands he puts together are always top notch musicians. They have to be to pull it off. Check out Jimmy and John McLaughlin together on John's farewell tour of the US. Those were mind blowing shows. I was lucky to catch one.

Awesome pick! 'Jazz is dead' was one of my favorite bands in the late 90's!! Jimmy was lead I'm pretty sure. They had some great stuff!!

Widespread Panic - "Red Hot Mama" ft. Andy, Jake, & Joel of UM - Charleston, SC - 10.05.2013 guitar dual after 7:00

Will never forget seeing Jimmy when he was with ARU. Never saw him before at the time (maybe circa 1996) live at the covered dish in Gainesville, Fl. This was a a very intimate place and I was literally right in front of him the whole time. I just knew he was on his way to special things along with the rest of the band. That was an amazing performance that night alongside Oteil and the rest of the band. He had a lit cigarette hanging from his mouth the whole show without taking a drag with his fingers which was quite impressive! Great content here as usual.

Don't quit pausing!! That is when we learn. You have a great ear and catch things not all of us can, when you stop and figure things out, even if not note for note, it helps us learn! It is very helpful to hear you explain what your hearing, the approach you think the guitarist is taking, etc. Also, the more you stop and start it, the more you are probably interested in it, so I say have at it!!

Jimmy Herring IS the man! Just love his playing.

You should check out Jeff Sipe with Shawn Lane and Jonas Helborg. Crazy

A little note about the drummer, Jeff Sipe. I had the honor of meeting him once. This well connected friend of mine had a party and invited a bunch of bands to play. My band played before the Jeff Sipe Trio. We weren't very good at the time. Just a garage band really. But Jeff gave us lots of really nice compliments. He has a huge heart. A very humble and kind person. Then his band took the stage and Tore It Up!!! They proceeded to play for about 5 hours without taking a break. Amazing!!

gone to see over 150 shows with Jimmy Herring! He is an absolute guitar genius. Depending on the style of music he is playing he plays the perfect scales. He is known for his fast picking parts, great tone, technically perfect, and all around hell of an awesome guy that everyone loves playing with.

I was wondering when you'd get around to finding Jimmy Herring. Go check out some old Aquarium Rescue Unit performances - with Colonel Bruce Hampton. Amazing stuff.

Yes! Jimmy is a legend. Please do a Widespread Panic with Mikey the original guitarist as well. So different and unique. Love the content. Keep them coming 👍

I went to high school with Jimmy. He was always nice. So glad to see his dream come true.

You have done Derek, Jimmy, now you need to keep in the "family" and do Warren Haynes. Hardest working guitarist in show business. Lots of good Mule songs. Also, if you do more Herring, Panic and ARU are good, but in my opinion Jazz is Dead is one of the best bands every assembled. Unfortunately the videos on youtube for them aren't the best quality (Jimmy was part of the original lineup which was the best, it has changed in last few years).

You gotta check out moe. Dual guitars. Moth, Rebubla, or Four are good places to start.

Lets hear the Ride me high with panic in Charleston 2013. He has a great solo in the beginning jam and uses his twang bar slide technique

Matt Slocum has been playing with Railroad Earth and is Killing IT!!! Nice tune MATT...it IS Funky!!!

Sipe is a god on the kit. Jimmy. What the hell, dude? Not in three lifetimes could I be that good.

Studied guitar perfomance at umass. Love your videos. Great quick analysis and explanations without any sort of condescending demeanor. Stumbled upon this channel because of the Dead videos and its great to see you taking the commenters' suggetions and checking out stuff you've not heard before, diving in at the deep end.

That dude is so good and way underrated

Wow a guitar teacher reacting to another guitar player!! Christ almighty I need more of this. Where has youtube been all my life?

“Way above my pay grade.” Ha, ha! Love it! It’s above my pay grade as well, brother! Killer content as always!🎸🇺🇸🗽🦅🇺🇸

Nice...I've always really liked this jam!

Quick history: Col Bruce Hampton & Aquarium Rescue Unit were crazy players in Atlanta in late 80's early 90's. Jimmy Herring, Jeff Sipe (drummer in this video), Oteil Burbridge, Matt Mundy and Col. Bruce. The band was too out there for main stream, but the talent was undeniable. Derek Trucks opened for them when he was like 13 and met Jimmy. Over the years, as each players chops became better known, they moved on to different things and Jimmy played in one of the post Jerry versions of the Dead, played with the Allmans for a while with Warren Haynes and with Derek and took over for Widespread Panic after Hauser died. Oteil, similarly, played with the Allmans for years and now is the bass player for Dead and company. But the original band was possibly the most talented group of rock players to play, sort of Mahuvishnu Orchestra if the leader was carnival barker / alien / andy kaufman wrestler type. But that will tie together a lot of the players and bands - jimmy, warren, derek, oteil, alma's, dead, panic.

I would also add that while the Dominant 7 is opening him up to the use of major and minor, the 7#9 actually has implications of a fully diminished harmony because of the 5, flat7 and #9, which obscures the tonal palate even further, and by doing so, opens up what a skilled soloist can play and still make sound intentional.

And one of Jimmy Herring’s idols was Steve Morse. Would love to see some of his stuff on your channel!

Thanks for the Herring! My all tine fav since the ARU days. He Kills! Would really love to see you do Greg Koch. Now there's a MONSTER!!

C’mon! That’s the only jimmy song you can follow, not random lol.Matt from Dothan, Alabama, close to my old stomping grounds Troy. Glad to have seen this band at the ARU reunion, and John McLaughlin tour. You guys rock!

Sipe played in Aquarium Rescue Unit and Trey Anastasio Band for a bit. He's one of the absolute best out there, and an incredibly humble and nice guy.

Herring is a beast!! Sooooo good.

When you get to Widespread Panic, choose a song with Mike Houser, their original lead guitarist. Preferably Space Wrangler, Holden Oversoul, Walkin' (For Your Love).

: I used a B7 funk backtracking. I don’t know, perhaps because I’ve playing this for year, I don’t have problems to switch from b3 to 3 keeping the structure of the solo. I was basically doing what you suggested: 4 bars minor, 4 bars major, and then all mixed. I hear both intervals. I suppose it comes from years listening, for example, John Scofield.

Jimmy Herring can take it way out there.

Oh man, so glad this channel was suggested. Midnight in Harlem, Matt's Funk? You seldom ever see much commentary on Derek & Jimmy. Subscribed!

Great video thanks for breaking this one down and getting into it. Jimmy is definitely one of my favorite players

Saw Jimmy play on my bday in Savannah, GA. a few months ago. Killer player and everybody who meets him says he’s the nicest guy ever.

Guitargate. Jeff Sipe and Jimmy go way back. Both started out in Aquarium Rescue Unit along with Oteil Burbidge, under the leadership of Col. Bruce Hampton. Sipe is world renowned.

Grew up with Matt. So proud of him

This band is world class over, under, sideways, down! Jimmy on guitars, Jeff Sipe (AKA Apt Q258) drems, Matt Slocumb keys, my good friend Neil Fountain on bass. Every player is at the pinnacle of his craft.

That was so much fun to watch! Thank you! I'm so excited to see you take on Panic!

2:59 - 3:09 bit of outside nastiness is all B half-step/whole-step diminished scale with plenty of large intervallic leaps thrown in. Amazing how melodic he makes it sound.

Jazz Is Dead…Blue Light Rain… Billy cobham..Alphonso Johnson…T Lavitz…Herring….amazing…

I would love to see you do a video of Steve Kimock. Everyone in this lineup is insanely talented but Steve and the drummer, Rodney Holmes, are incredible. Most of his live songs are like 15+ minutes but this is a shorter one with some great solos by Steve. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/frBkaMuBv8WWm4k.html

Jimmys album Lifeboat is up there for all time Jazz Rock Fusion albums, he's another guy that does a lot with a volume pedal and a cranked amp. With this progression from Derek Trucks to Jimmy Herring you are getting into the upper echelon of players, I'm not sure who you tackle next, maybe Steve Morse or the mythical Allan Holdsworth?

That lick you said he uses “a flat 5 or two” is the B symmetric dominant scale

Wow. Glad I found this channel🙌🏻

Possibly the world's greatest living drummer in Jeff Sipe

Love your channel and I don't even play guitar! Your insight emotionally with regard to the music is refreshing. I was lucky enough to catch the tour with McLaughlin. Spectacular to say the least. That was the show which made me realize at a deeper level how insanely good Jimmy is. His work with the Allman Bros was stellar. Really enjoyed him with Phil Lesh and Friends also.

Love Jimmy! Roy Buchanan vid please!

@Guitargate - Your takeaway was cool with Jimmy's mixing of major and minor, I'd submit that this is something he got from the Allman Bros. I encourage you to dig a little deeper into his playing and you'll find that there's a ton more to the theory behind his playing. Here are some example to check out where I've broken down his amazing work with diminished ideas (from 14 years ago...glad to see such interest!): Guitar neck with A triad superimposed over E-flat triad - grahamspice.com/docs/herring_dec06_aim.gif (GIF 8K) Guitar neck displaying A diminished Half/Whole scale with notes in RED that are not part of the A triad superimposed over E-flat triad - grahamspice.com/docs/herring_dec06_aim_dim.gif (GIF 10K) - as suggested by Jimmy Herring in AIM Master Class from Dec. ’06 The ultimate tune he's written to showcase his diminished playing is called "Scapegoat Blues" from his first solo album Lifeboat. Find me another song that sits on diminished chords for 32 bars! :) You've got to check that one out. Herring and Oteil Burbridge (and Matt Mundy) mastered how to support that sound in ARU way back. Jeff Sipe is on drums on that album along with a ton of super hitters: Jimmy Herring (Guitar); Oteil Burbridge (Bass); Kofi Burbridge RIP (Piano, Keyboards); Jeff Sipe, aka APT Q-258 (Drums) Special Guests: Greg Osby (Sax); Matt Slocum (Keyboards); Derek Trucks (Slide Guitar); Bobby Lee Rodgers (Leslie and Rhythm Guitar); Ike Stubblefield (Hammond B3), Tyler Greenwell (Drums), Scott Kinsey (Organ)

That would be Jeff Sipe on drums, aka Apt. Q258 of ARU fame (also with Jimmy). One of the all time greats. If you really want your mind blown, you must check out some Hellborg Lane Sipe. (And if you're not familiar with Shawn Lane RIP, well, hold on tight). Temporal Analogues of Paradise is probably their best recording- two extended jams from a late 90s tour in Europe. Absolutely incendiary. Was a total game changer for me.

You are getting closer to Panic

FYI, he's mixing Blues with H/W Diminished! That's his thing.

I’m not sure if you saw any of my other comments but i would really enjoy a brewery session reaction or two of colter wall or some Tyler Childers Creek sessions they’re absolutely amazing

Saw him in '04 in New Orleans in small club with The Aquarium Rescue Unit. Changed my life...

Love to see some Khruangbin on your channel!

Gotta check out Wayne Krantz and Julian Lage. 2 Jazz virtuosos that have really paved their own unique style

You should get a footswitch to operate the video player! You could have basic controls... rewind (15 sec increments), play/pause, fast forward (15 sec increments).

Aquarium rescue unit ... Jimmy was so humble before he got noticedbeen a loyal fan as the man... love you Jimmy . been a loyal fan since the duck taped guitar days thank you. on another note could you take notice of the late great Rusty Burns from Point Blank ?(Thank you momma) or any such a great player (lefty and up side down)

being from Georgia and especially middle georgia.. i grew up on the Allman Bros. I watched Jimmy for years way before Panic... I saw Panic play their 2nd show ever .. Jimmy was way better before the panic days... Mikey Houser is Panics guitarist the rest that follow are all just stand ins by the way. Jimmy Herring with Jazz is Dead now that is good stuff.. i was there in middle GA in late 80-2000 ... i saw all these guys play dozens and dozens if not hundreds of times... you just had to be there it was Amazing times for music...Allgood Music Co. John Carter..and Matt.. Col. Bruce.. Kevin Kenny ..Edwin McCain.. The Black Crowes..Rick Richards and the Ga Satellites ..Cigar Store Indians .. .not too mention REM and the whole Athens thing

I've seen panic about 10 times with Jimmy and have never heard him fuck up

Widespread Panic - "Ride Me High" - Charleston, SC - 10.04.2013 the jam after 9:00 Jimmy starts throwing down serious shit!! His ghostly volume swells, whammy dives, fast picking

Hi Michael I know there is almost no chance to react on tunes with like 1000 views. Anyway...this jazz rock trio FS3 from the Austrian guitarist Joe Doblhofer is simply mindblowing. By the way Doblhofer is also a sideman of the german Jazz/Metal/Funk band Panzerballett. But that´s a different story ;) Thanks for all the great stuff you do!

You getting well known in the jam band scene with these videos , seen you talked about in jam band FB groups

Jeff Sipe is such a good drummer! His music with Shawn Lane and Jonas Hjellborg is amazing! I recommend this video of that trio in Atlanta

These guys are fuckin awesome I listen to their stuff a lot.

I like what I am Herring!

These videos are just too cool. Keep em coming. Do a John Mayer Video (Non Dead and Co)

Check out Tosin Abasi - Song of Solomon Amazing Nigerian guitarist and one of the most respected progressive guitarists currently.

I was at that PRS event you speak of.

Apartment Q 258. Does anyone know how he got that nickname? Crazy good drummer. Played W Jimmy in Col and ARU

Check out "Col. Bruce Hampton & The Aquarium Rescue Unit" a band he was in with Jeff Sipe, Otiel Burbage & more. Mind melting stuff...

I remember years ago Jimmy was in a band called JAZZ IS DEAD. A jazzed up Grateful Dead cover thing. Very cool stuff! ✌💀🐉👽🎸🎶🎵🌌

Dude panic is mikey houser. Please understand and show respect for Michael houser. I loved mikey.

Jazz Is Dead was amazing.

Super tight!…if you want to push a wee bit further you gotta set your sights for Phil & Friends from the early 2000’s. Jimmy Herring and Warren Haynes (another giant to dedicate a show to) …talk about two guitar monsters! Do yourself a favor and at least snoop around for any material, you will not be disappointed. Love the show btw.

Thanks mike

You look like Scott Ackerman... I love watching the reaction. Love the videos!

The Apartment!! Jeff Sipe has been playing with Herring for decades. He was in the original Aquarian Rescue Unit lineup as "Apt. Q258" that band was so sick. Oteil and Sipe locked in was unstoppable...

I love Jimmy Herrring! There was nothing better than when he and Derek Trucks were playing in the Allman Bros. Or the Dead. Not sure which but they sounded fantastic together. I’d like to see Jimmy Herring and Walter Trout jam with Phish.

Admittedly, I haven't watched this...yet. I will. First I have to celebrate. JIMMY HERRING!

Check out Frogwings. Most talent probably ever assembled in one super group. You've got Herring, Derek, Butch Trucks, Marc Quinones, John Popper, Kofi Burbridge, and Oteil. Croakin' At Toad's is effing fantastic.

Beautiful PRS

Jeff SIpe and Neil Foutain Bass and Drums wonderful souls / good people to know

Warren Haynes!!!! I am finally seeing comments for Warren!!! I have linked the same tune in the comments for two weeks. love what you do!! This is not a forceful push just a friendly push cause I love how you break it down. Warren is my guy though!! Warren Haynes Fire in the kitchen... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9CRpLp4qtyteWg.html oh also the band in this one is on FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!

look up some Phil Lesh and friends...AKA...the quintet...late 90s, early 2000s. with jimmy herring and warren haynes on guitars

You hit it on the head with tasteful. Jimmy is one of the most tasteful players out there. Someone else on here said "you know he can Row Jimmy," and hell yes I would def check out the live version of Jazz is Dead doing that song on Laughing Water. The guitar duel between Herring and Derek Trucks on that recording is simply perfection.

Loving the react videos

Terrific!

the white wizard. How about some panic next time? ALSO would love a ween video

Check out some JGB. Jerry Garcia Band 88-91. Cats down under the stars, Run for the Roses. I love the way Melvin seals and Jerry connected well. John Kahn on Bass I think Kemper on drums. I’m sure you’ll like what you hear.

Oh man. Im sooo glad i found your page when i did! First video was Morning dew. Loved the Dead ones. And Umps. Your really getting at my heart now. You should also check out JRAD !!! And again would love your take on The Eleven m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtB4bLah1bi2npc.html

Jeff Sipe is Jimmy’s personal favorite drummer, I wonder why..

Wow man!! your ear is fantastic! Thanks for the hard work!

At 15:00 he briefly channels the Universal Knowing. He actually heard Jimmy.

Check out Scapegoat Blues by Jimmy Herring. That'll blow your mind for sure.