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Shake it, shake it, Jerry G
Today I’m serving up a transcription of a solo from Jerry Garcia, playing his tune “Sugaree” with the Dead at Hartford in 1977; it covers the portion from 1:30-4:00 from the 19-minute video below. This is some of my favorite playing from Garcia: it’s an endless stream of beautiful melodies that fit the song perfectly,…
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Charlie Christian Nationalism
Today a little transcription of Charlie Christian jamming with the Benny Goodman crew on “Waiting for Benny,” from this recording: I have nothing to say about Charlie Christian that hasn’t been said a million times; for that, go check out Stan Ayeroff’s book, or plenty of other resources. He’s just unbelievably great. Oh, and fuck…
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Eddie Freeloader
Since I’m not a weird recipe site, as always I’m frontloading the point: help yourself to this transcription of a nice performance of Miles Davis’ blues tune “Freddie Freeloader” by guitarist Wolf Marshall. If you feel like it, below the video there is some analysis of the tune and the solos, along with a bit…
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His Majesty
Today I have a very short transcription, the solo from the studio version of Wax Fang’s “Majestic.” It’s a simple and beautiful little song. And I know I’m not alone in having first encountered it in a funny setting: I haven’t consumed tons of other work from Wax Fang, and don’t know much about their…
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D’s so Heavy
Today’s transcription is from Umphrey’s McGee’s performance of the Beatles’ classic “I Want You (She’s So Heavy),” with Jake Cinninger’s solo from the ending coda in D minor. As always, just go make use of the transcription if you like, or read below if you want to hear me yammer on about it. And of…