Part 4 of a 12 part course on how to play Jerry Garcia's awesome solo from the 7-4-89 Deal with the Grateful Dead. For the free & printable tab of this whole solo, keep scrolling down.

In this lesson, you will learn the guitar techniques that Jerry Garcia uses when improvising. You'll also learn the music theory behind why his licks sound so good.

Jerry Garcia's 7-4-89 Deal Solo with the Grateful Dead – Lick 4 of 12

Lick 4

  • To start off this lick we’re in the D#dim chord and Jerry plays right up the D#dim arpeggio.  Then he does this cool little move where he connects the C note to C#, which is the 3rd of A (14th fret b String).

  • After that we have another lick that similar to the pedal steel phrase we talked about in lick 3, based on the A shape of the A Chord.

  • Over the G and D chords, Jerry targets the A note (which our ears have been accustomed to) and the pivots up towards the 3rd of G(the B note, 12th fret of B string), and goes back down to the A, and then chromatically connects that to the 3rd of D (11th fret G string, F# note), before ultimately landing on the root of D.

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