Style For The Grateful Dead's "Estimated Prophet"

[Michael Trigoboff]

Here's a style for the Grateful Dead song Estimated Prophet, which is in 7/4 time.

Main A is the verse: 12 bars

Main B is the rest of the song. It consists of 3 parts (named according to lyrics that occur in them):
    California: 8 bars
    Fire Wheel: 8 bars
    Thunder: 12 bars

Main D is the first two bars of the verse, which repeat over and over so you can jam to them.

OTS 1 has two instruments I like to use with the style.

To play this song in proper sequence, you would start Intro I with Main A selected. At the end of the 12 bars of Main A, you would switch to Main B for 8 bars (just the California part). Then back to Main A for 12 bars, followed by all 28 bars of Main B and then a repeat of its first 8 bars (California), followed by Main A and then Main D for as long as you want to jam.

Since I don't need to play chords with my left hand for this style, I set up the keyboard so that the entire range of keys can be played with whatever Right voice I select. As far as I can tell, there is no way to set this up within a style.

I hope some of you have fun with this. Learning to play in 7/4 time is a real challenge! Listening to the Grateful Dead do it is really helpful, if you don't allow yourself to be discouraged by how you will never be able to play as well as they do (speaking only for myself here).

[Michael Trigoboff]

I just made a few tweaks to it, so if you already downloaded it you might want to download it again.