"Jessica." Duane Betts Higher Harmony per Dickey Betts YouTube Lesson.

Our band is working on this song right now. Since it's difficult to get together all the time to practice, I thought this would be a cool way to send to the other guitar player in order to practice or follow up with ideas how to approach or change this song.

Dickey Betts has a lesson video here on YouTube that shows him breaking down the "Jessica" harmony solos. I think it's his live version of the song since I can't find his "harmony" solo in the original recording. My guitar parts in this video are the Duane Betts upper harmony parts to Dickey's main melody riff and ending middle solo. I probably should have slowed down the "Falling Leaves" triplet ending prior to moving into the ending chorus riff up to the ending of the song. Maybe in a few weeks.

This is an Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plus Top in Honey Burst finish. Pickups are Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbuckers, but I've polished up a bit with some automotive metal polish wadding. The pickups are shiny only because I've made them look that way. I thought polished looked a little better next to my newer looking guitar. .022 mfd Bumble Bee tonecapacitors too (both tone caps have the same value).

Amplifier is a 2002 Fender Hot Rod Deluxe LTD blonde tolex amp using KCA NOS tubes in order to get a better Drive/More Drive tone. No other effects were used in this clip, just the "More Drive" amp channel set at about #10 gain. Guitar cable is a Fender Oxblood tweed cable, not the best but I normally use Monster Pro cables.

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[butterdrums]

Duane did play on Jessica. The recordings were finished before he died and the album was released with his parts posthumously. The album was named "Eat A Peach" in honor of him; he was killed in a collision with a peach truck.

[Stewmade64]

@butterdrums Thanks for clearing that up butterdrums.

[Akhunslet]

Duane Allman didn't play on Jessica, he died before the album that Jessica features on was cut. Duane Betts, (Dickey's son) plays in his farther's band and is featured on the lesson video that Stewmade64 refers to. Great playing, what amp you using?

[Stewmade64]

Well there you go, they're referring to Duane Betts.

Amp is a LTD blonde Fender Hot Rod Deluxe.

[FingerNoise]

Duane didn't play on Jessica

[Stewmade64]

@FingerNoise Was it just the keyboard harmony? On the Dickey Betts Jessica instruction video, they state Duane harmony part. Maybe a different Duane?

[magikbee]

Stewmade -- great stuff. have had fun playing along with you! Check out my version of Jessica (both solos) on my website. We should play together via Skype!

[gamemasterzoomzoomom]

Top Gear!!!! haha i love this song. learning it on guitar right now.

[hiitsmehi]

one part of that sounded exactly like the start of top gear ! hahaha

[TheLedGuitarist]

nice amp

[Akhunslet]

Don't worry, just read caption :-)

[FingerNoise]

no i think its Les Dudek , Duane died in 1971 and the album Brothers and Sisters came out 1973 The group's first album recorded completely after the death of Duane Allman