Music Revolution

Hope is a difficult thing to maintain. It is easy to become hopeless, especially in this age of intentional disconnection. The age of connection has ended by force and the social networks are being ripped apart, quite literally, by bombs and tanks and the incessant vicious morons that pilot them.
It’s easy to give in. Maintaining hope requires resources, it requires fuel like any other living thing, but the funny thing about hope is that it’s shared. You don’t need your own fuel to use it, as sometimes all it takes to ignite that spark of hope is the knowledge that someone else out there has it.

Jesse Wells may seem to have popped out of nowhere like the angered ghost of Jim Morrison, but he actually has a well stocked backlog of tracks under the name of his band Welles, but it’s only on his newly created youtube channel where Jesse performs original masterfully written guitar ballads almost daily. It’s creation at a level and speed previously unseen or unheard of on the platform.

His piece War isn’t Murder is especially notable for attracting new listeners to his channel due to it’s bitingly sarcastic commentary on the Israelli Genocide of the Palestinians.

In an age of AI music where anyone can create a radio-ready song in seconds the only bastion left for humans is true expression, and I mean that in the driest and most clinical way possible, as in the expression of the will of the people. It’s easy to lose hope when you lack a voice but someone shouting what you want to say from the rooftops is essentially the same thing as speaking. Musicians can give people a voice by expressing their perspectives and desires, in a way that politicians should but never do.

We tend to think about music as a creative artform where musicians can just do whatever they want, but to really be effective they must be responsive like a tire responds to a road. Just like farmers react to supply and demand, so must a musician write the songs that voice the people's spirits.

After seeing this song performed by Jesse the first time I had to learn it. I’m an avid musician and when I see someone play something I can’t I feel the need to learn it, so I’ve made a couple videos of me performing it.

It’s a good way to spread the message to people who do not know of Jesse Welles yet, just be sure to credit him.


Here are the chords and a description of how to play them:

C (hold for a long time, move finger to play G bass note)Amin,
G walk up to G7

Fmaj7 ...Dead people...
(there is one bar here that is only 2 beats, pay attention to the strumming which occurs on the 1st and 3rd beats)
...Dead people... F9

C, walk down to A7,
D7, G
walk up to C ,A7,
D7, G

Fmaj7, Fminor7 , C
(Minor Plagal Cadence, really beautiful)

walk down to A7 again to end the verse.

On the second verse there is an extra bar where he says "have nice trip" and that is just a quick D7, G, C,
which is a 2-5-1,
the most common Jazz Cadence.

The picking pattern is
- 2 - 3 4 - 1 3 - 6 5 -
where - is the beginning of the beat and the numbers are the strings.

You must play the base string 1, 2, and 3 with a pick, and the rest with your fingers.

You can think of it as a bass pattern that goes:

- 2 - 3 - 1- 3 -
except the last note is sped up
so it's
- 2 - 3 - 1 3 - -

Then add the remain notes with your fingers like
- - 4 - - 6 5 -

This is the pattern for C and A, but of course for D and G and F the base notes change, and for that you will have to figure it out yourself.
I usually just go from the Root note to the fifth and back again instead of a tri-alternating pattern.