Triads!!

Good to see Michael on here. I think Garcia is a much more important figure than many in the guitar community give him credit for. Which you guys would do more lesson videos too.

Listening to Dead for a year.... that puts you at about 4 songs all the way through

This literally just happened to me. Spent my whole life playing bluesy in the same key, riff oriented. Got into the Grateful Dead and boom, opened up the whole fretboard. Great video.

Michael is the greatest. He does such a great job of breaking things down so it’s much easier to understand. His channel is so great, and full of tons of stuff like this.

Great lesson Michael! I will not soon forget to “be a third hunter.”

Great lesson - one of the most concise deconstructions of JG’s playing I’ve seen.

Brilliant! So much cool content coming out with regards to the Dead’s music. Wish I could have my 10,000 hours back when I was a bored teenager.

Thanks so much for this video. I have overlooked Garcia all these years and you have finally opened my eyes.

KZfaq guitar lessons are creating a wealth of knowledge and exposure to incredible teaching styles. I am in the process of signing up in a rotational process with you Tomo and Paul. So thankful for your enthusiasm and open mindedness to so many musicians, and helping so many of us find our tone by first learning the essentials that make us better musicians.

So cool to see you on here! Keep it up man, we all appreciate what you do

Thanks for what you do brother! The enthusiasm, appreciation and execution you bring is infectious!

The future generation is so blessed to have you puttng out this knowledge so that the grand legacy can continue on. Not to mention when we all get old/er we will have people still playing the best tunes that ever were.

Hey! I LOVE the Dead and Garcia. Until exactly a year ago...I been playing the same ole same ole RnB phrases in a few bands for a while feelin a lil flat...until I stumbled across Dead vids on YT - Mayer and Garcia. It was Bertha and I was floored - a jazz approach in RnRoll - playing through the changes. Singing melodies and a crystalline flowing flute - like guitar tone over great grooves. And...the lyrics are often about the great joys and sorrows of life amidst the chaos of everything. I have been woodshedding for moths now utterly inspired. Thank you Michael :))) You are a gifted dude. BTW I ALSO woodshedded on Bluegrass too and utilise many runs in tunes such as Franklin's Tower.

Thank You for this and we all think about scales UNFORTUNATELY. This was a great lesson and we will never know Jerry’s magic

This guy is the easiest to learn off on the internet this is the easiest way to get into improvising you can sound good straight off the bat what a great teacher

This might be the most important lesson I've watched on youtube! Time will tell. Thanks

I love how you break this down! Awesome video lesson!

I've been playing guitar for a long while and mostly learned through listening to The Dead. I mostly have no idea what notes i'm playing but everything you said makes total sense and might throw me down the rabbit hole of actually "learning" the fret board. Thank a ton for the awesome video and giving Jerry and the dead the credit on their talents as they deserve.

Great stuff Michael. Congrats on your premier guitar lesson for Premier Guitar.

Great lesson, loved this, can't wait to see more.

I am a tough critic and I am sorry for that, I will just thank you for giving lessons and insights whilst keeping us all (your audience) smiling and thinking about the good times. cheers Michael!

Great video! When I was first learning guitar fifty years ago I accidentally found myself sounding a bit like Garcia but didn't know why. This helps a lot because I was focusing on the third and the sixth. There's a lot of Dicky Betts in this too!

Congratulations on your premier guitar lesson! Thanks. Great into!

Thank you so much, Michael!!

Great info here! Especially loud outdoor concert soloing. Pied Piper loud. Bringing the people towards you - jam band! Also...(Very Dickey Betts major pentatonic). I also love Gerry's outside psychedelic soling which taps into his latin rhythm's (right hand phrasing) while playing all the notes of the tonic - but the one! He implies the tonic so amazingly! and you're right, lands on the third a lot! Thanks for this great lesson. Enjoy going outside further this year if you want? Gerry ! ! !

That is an absol STUNNING lesson! Many thanks.

Really great lesson. I'm embarrassed to say after many years of playing I didn't see this thanks!

Awesome! So glad Michael is with PG!

I so love this dude!

Congrats Michael you're an official Dead Head. You've been touched by the magic that would appear from time to time.

great lesson! love your energy!

FANTASTIC premier performance, Michael! Great tutorial, LOVE The Dead, mostly the guitar style of Garcia (I know, I'm the ONLY one!). ;D Thanks for breaking it down.

Keep bringing the Michael Palmisano videos, this guy is the Shizzle!

How did I not see this video until now? MOAR PALMISANO + DEAD!

He flies all over the fretboard then says "look for thirds." Awesome vid. Totally explained. I can quit my job now because I can solo just like Jerry now.

Great lesson! I'd love to see more along these lines. Very well done :)

I saw Jerry Garcia play live 65 times... Good stuff..

Deadhead 4EVER! Love them...especially Anthem of the sun album..and listening to Box of Rain in some of my personally darkest days absolutely changed my life. . .Some people just hear a band playing country music.But it is sooo much more . Not everybody gets it.But those who do REALLY get it!! Nice to see you spreading the word....Great stuff!! Really enjoyed this.Thanks!

I was so happy when I saw your face on the thumbnail and then, Premier Guitar? Good for you man! Well deserved, and amazing lesson. 🤟🏻

best lesson i saw on youtube!

Congrats on the new gig

I have been learning from Jerry, Phil, and Bobby since the late 1960's. There were always some side tracking adventures here and there. By the time "Captain Trips" was released I was already well acquainted with the British Invasion guitarists. I also found Gary Duncan to be an excellent improvisor but what really opened my eyes to Jerry's soloing approach was listening to Clarence White's bluegrass solos.

Very insightful! Thanks.

About 5 years ago I realized that I needed to really play the changes. I felt like I could't even play guitar for about 2 years... lol. But it was well worth it. I agree 3rd hunting for sure. I also found it very useful to learn my scales up and down the neck in 3rd and 6th intervals. Another very useful thing I learned was say it was an A, D, Em, D progression, I would think A major pentatonic, D major pentatonic, and E minor pentatonic, over each chord

Jery does a lot of 3 fret walkups within the scale range. So instead of going 5 to 7, he will quickly walk up and throw the 6 fret in. Just like Altheas opening, only faster...nice lesson. Thanks sir

What a great insight! thanks Michael, I will try this

Great lesson. Did not expect to hear the word ‘behooves’- an added bonus.

Preaching the gospel brother

Awesome 👏 More of this ..⚡️🎸⚡️

Great Video! Thanks so much!

Love the sound! Unfortunately there will never be another Jerry Garcia he’s one of the few guitarists you can tell just by his sound

Michael is the best. Everyone should subscribe to his channel. An unexpected benefit to being a subscriber is that I have discovered tons of unbelievable artists I’ve never heard of before thanks to his channel.

You've been playing for so long and you "just" discovered Garcia "about a year ago"??!! I'm not sure whether to slap you or hug you. Congratz. Your universe of endless creativity just opened.

Very cool, thanks! I never thought of it this way before. I subscribed.

man, love those inlays.

Thank you

Great lesson!

Hey!! That's my guitar teacher!! Guitar gate for life!!!

This video is exactly what I was looking for but I spent the entire thing mesmerized by the quality that guitar. The sound. The look of it. Those damn bird inlays. Jeeeez. Ok now I go back and pay attention lol

Thank you for the lesson. Improvising is like talking to a woman..,you know what you want to say, but through bravery and chance, the words you end up saying are not always what you expected, but sometimes end up better than you thought.

Great info and a KEY reason, the solos were never the same. And the same song, had a different feel every night. You could listen to 10 Althea's and ALL are different.

great stuff

Michael ... I think it’s about time you had some of those “Third Hunter” Tee Shirts made up!

wow great lesson

Great lesson! For Franklin’s Tower on the album version from Blues for Allah, Jerry actually plays mostly the A Pentatonic scale with chromatics and some arpeggios.. but I took your course on Jamplay and think this is an awesome approach and I am getting much better as a result so thanks!

Just for using the word “behooves”, subscribed!

Fantastic video and playing! Always glad to hear great players giving Jerry some love. I also hear a bit of that other jamband icon from Vermont in your playing... have any videos on him?

Another cool trick they both do in Althea is play with that third of e by by bending from the minor third G to G# especially going into the chromatic movement to the Bm.

I was hating the other day but this lessons rocks.

I'm stuck in riffland. So frustrating! I'm moving to third hunter land. Thank you for the video.

Beautiful guitar, got my eye on it only found one online rest sold out.

i heard rick beato mention jerry once (not that i watch his channel that much) but when he mentioned him he called jerry "the legend of legends", people who know about jerry know...he is maybe the most misunderstood guitar legend

great playing.

11:11 Don't worry, Jerry's done it too. Love this lesson, come back to it often when I need a little more discipline with the changes...

Nice work

That's pretty good. Way to keep Jerry alive

BRILLIANT lesson. ps. I would kill for these backing tracks.

I love how you are understanding the Grateful Dead. I know it's a process. The community is amazing. So I thank you!

Reminds me of a story I like to tell. I think it was Guitar World magazine, someone had this contest for best shred solo. The winner got to tour and play with these guys. I'm sure it included some kind of recording deal too. The winner was awesome. Fast. Dude could play right? But then I saw him jamming with this band and, dude couldn't jam. He's this pro guitarist but he can't jam. Everything was like "Lick number 1, Lick number 2. ..." He could write solos. He could play tricky stuff but he couldn't jam. If I ever taught guitar, I'd teach people how to jam.

Garcia was a super duper melodic genius-

"How to play like Trey Anastasio playing a grateful dead song" Fixed that for you

Very Warren Haynes ish.. And ABB as well. Right up my alley

I check in here because I am not a music sophisticate in terms of correct descriptive language. I more or less let it wash over me but the playing...the playing is the demonstration of everything theoretical & all the sequences are tasteful & have that "I wish I could PLAY that quality!"

GOAT

MichaelPalmisano you and I are two peas in a pod🙌The main key of "Althea" key is A Major. You would TECHNICALLY use B Dorian, as the song starts on the ii. There is a great song lineage for this trick, a famous one of which is Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance." If you listen to live versions of "Althea," Jerry in particular was very fond of climbing A Major in his famous slurred sequences. Great lesson, and a fantastic example of using key centered and chord tone soloing.

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Just found your channel Subscribed

would love to see you break down some of the phrasing and rhythmic stuff as well, thats one thing thats super hard to cop

So much back and forth between GD and ABB I know they played together a few times and Dickie wrote “Ramblin’ Man” after listening to Franklin’s Tower I believe?

I love how this grateful dead soloing style video leads off with a non grateful dead or anywhere close to jerry solo style on franklins

No matter what level you are at playing, whether beginner or advanced, the level of enjoyment and accomplishment can be the same.

Love this. Once you know where the "3rds" are, how do you determine the rest of the notes that fit? I.E. is it a scale, or just hunt and peck and figure out what notes work (with each chord)?

Fucking A brother ❤ I could listen to that intro forever

David gilmour next 🤩

Just wanted to say I'm taking Michael's Jerry Garcia course on guitargate.com. If this was too fast for you, he really takes it in small steps in the course. $10... You can't go wrong!

Vamp Michael, Vamp...great lesson...have a ball - use your ear.

The chord connection makes sense to me and I think I do this while playing naturally, but damn it’s hard to process this while you play. Do you have any practice techniques for this? I’m thinking maybe creating a roadmap ahead of time of the notes and try to come up with riffs that connect them synchronized with the chord changes.

Man!!! You explained and expressed exactly what I’ve been feeling about my guitar playing as far as playing for “taste”. Because I come from that “riff shit background” and it’s grown “tiresome” So I bought some Grateful Dead books just to inspire me. Thanks

I need to learn some riffs.