Grateful Dead Guitar Lesson – How To Play Deal for Beginners

In this video, I’ll show you how to play Deal, by the Grateful Dead. I studied the 7-4-89 version from Buffalo, NY and I want to teach you the chords and rhythms that Jerry Garcia uses in this version. This video is broken in to four parts - we’ll learn: The intro Lick How [...]

By |2017-05-20T11:26:45-04:00May 20th, 2017|Song Studies, Tune Breakdowns|

Phish Waste Guitar Tab – The Bittersweet Motel Solo

Trey Anastasio's 12-11-97 Waste solo was immortalized in Bittersweet Motel, Todd Phillips' 2000 documentary about Phish.  This minute and a half piece of musical perfection has singlehandedly spurred an entire generation of Phish fans to either pick up the guitar, or to at least take their current playing more seriously. I was one of [...]

By |2017-05-12T12:07:14-04:00May 12th, 2017|Song Studies, Tune Breakdowns|

Phish Waste Guitar Tab – Acoustic Lesson for Beginners

In this Phish guitar tutorial, I'll show you how to play the song "Waste." From the song's conception in 1996, the band performed this song live in the key of C, and etched it into stone on Billy Breathes in the same key. Rather than demonstrate this pre-1997 version of this song, I'll show [...]

By |2017-05-04T16:04:42-04:00May 4th, 2017|Song Studies|
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