Jerry Garcia Guitar Lesson #1: Don't Ease Me In, Lead Guitar

A nice, tight solo by Jerry from this 07/01/79 show in Seattle, WA. Heard it in the car one day, ended up transposing the whole thing. Some great Jerry vocabulary in this solo.

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[eitel10]

Do you have any tabs of these? This is really amazing stuff.

[sparkomatic]

@eitel10 Thanks man. No I don't have any tabs. I encourage you to work your way through the walkthrough section. I think you can pick up the licks, and the key to it all is really getting to understand where the licks are coming from. If you do that, you won't need any tabs. Dig in and enjoy! Lots of cool licks in this solo.

[C0smicHighway]

One of the best Jerry tutorials I've seen. Really appreciate your approach. I learned more then just licks, kinda put me in Jerry's head space. Great stuff!

[sparkomatic]

@C0smicHighway Really appreciate that. Thanks.

[ptboy1030]

Amazing, You just blew me away. Please do more.

[sparkomatic]

@ptboy1030 Thanks. More coming soon. 

[jihadgranny]

Dude thanks for this video its great. I never really realized how much those licks (and many many others) are based off the chords in the song. I gotta fucking learn more chords up the neck

[slipyourhips]

@C0smicHighway I was going to comment but Cosmic hit it Dead on. Thanks sparkomatic

[eitel10]

Thanks a lot. I feel ya on working through that. I'm out in California for baseball w/out a guitar so I'm dying now. I'm gonna pick one up eventually and work on these. I jammed with a guy recently and we did Woman Smarter (Iko a step up) I'm gonna work on the iko licks and nail it. Any new dead bids coming out? Your Cumberland and Begonias are a Godsend. Keep it up brother.

[jdavis77777]

Dude, you could play with the Grateful Dead and no one would know that Jerry is no longer with us, except you couldn't play a different solo 300 times per year that was that good... Anyway, for us mortals you are the $%!t! Thanks, and keep 'em coming.

[Tennesseejedi22]

Thanks for sharing - This is the best instructional Dead vid ever. I learn something new every time I watch ....

Happy New Year Dude !

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[chinacat63]

sounds good slowed down too!

[wattsboogie]

Nicely done. You really have Jerry's feel/phrasing down.

[Tennesseejedi22]

Thanks for the licks !

I love how you break down the solo's.

I went to a jam this weekend and used a bunch of your licks ...

Thanks man !

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