Grateful Dead Guitar Lesson - Deal Harmonic Analysis & Jerry Garcia Solos with Tab (7/4/89 Buffalo)

In this lesson, we'll look at Jerry Garcia's first two solos from Deal, from July 4, 1989. I'll provide an analysis of the chords in the song, and we'll discuss the melodic techniques that Jerry uses in his licks. We'll talk about what makes Deal so challenging to play over, and how Jerry Garcia was able to overcome those challenges so easily.

This version of Deal is featured on the Grateful Dead's Truckin' Up to Buffalo Official Release.

Free Printable TAB of Jerry's guitar solo is available http://amarguitar.com/dealsolo

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► Chapter Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
0:51 - 7/4/89 Deal Solo Performance with Guitar Tab
2:05 - Why Deal is so challenging to solo over
3:46 - Why Jerry Garcia can overcome the challenges in Deal
4:42 - Jerry's melodic technique in the opening licks of the solo
5:19 - The three relationships a soloist must balance
5:43 - Exploring dynamics between the band & Jerry Garcia
7:58 - How guitar players can easily learn this solo via tutorial

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About this video:

In July 1988, Jerry Garcia sat down with Guitar Player magazine to share some secrets behind his approach -

“You need to have enough access to the fingerboard that you’re not hung up about what where you are. In other words ‘What Key am I in? What scale interval am I at?’ You need to be able to let that go past you. I’m just getting into being able to get a good sound, regardless of the structure or mathematics. So much of the guitar is patterns. But if you look at it right, patterns start to melt into each other; pretty soon you can hit anything from anywhere.”