Dire Wolf from the live album Reckoning by the Grateful Dead full transcription of intro, solo and outro played by Jerry Garcia. Timecodes listed below outline the lesson. A pdf is included with all transcriptions. For those interested in guitar lessons, my email is bobby@thehallsofmusic.com or bobhallguitar@gmail.com.
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PDF for Intro, Solo, and Outro
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PDF for chords and lyrics
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Timecodes
0:00 Performance backing track
1:50 is Jerry's Solo Recreated in performance
3:14 Reminder of PDF and explanation of right hand picking technique
I am using alternate picking similar to how blue grass players play
3:45 First motive of intro pickup measure and measure 1
4:43 Second motive of intro pickup into measure2 and measures 2
5:58 Third motive of intro measure 3 to measure 4
5:51 Fourth motive of intro measure 4 to measure 5
7:38 First and second motive together of intro pickup to measure 1 to measure 2
8:13 Second and third motive of intro measures 3 and 4
8:43 Last two motives measure 3, 4 and 5
9:09 Putting entire intro together
10:03 Talking about getting into the solo
10:25 First motive of solo measures 6, 7, and 8 on pdf
11:47 Second motive of solo measures pickup to 9 and measure 10 on pdf
13:13 Third motive of solo pickup into measure 11 and measure 11
14:57 Fourth motive of solo measure 12, 13, and 14
17:03 Fifth motive measures 15 and 16
18:51 Sixth motive measures 17 and 18
21:32 Seventh motive pickup into measure 19 and measure 19
22:45 Eighth motive of Jerry’s measure 20
24:04 My added motive to the solo in measure 21
25:04 Last motive of solo measure 22 to 23
25:53 Combining motives in measures 7 through 11
27:00 Combining motives in measures 12 through 16
27:54 Combining motives in measures 16 through 23
29:04 The entire solo with metronome
29:58 Rhythm guitar lesson for my arrangement
Be sure to use the pdf of chords and lyrics to follow along with the recording
I use gypsy jazz guitar techniques with a percussive rhythmic sound
This sound emphasizes beats 2 and 4 with a punchy, percussive sound
Adding extra, cool rhythmic ideas is something that Jerry does, so I do it too