How to Play - Jerry Garcia Guitar Solo - "Bertha"- 1971- Grateful Dead - Skull/Roses w/ TAB

here is a note for note guitar lesson on how to play Jerry Garcia's
(totally awesome!) guitar solo from "Bertha", on the Grateful Dead's
"Skull of Roses" live album! ... from 1971 at Fillmore East ...

running time = 1:01:42

track listing ...

0:00 - carlo plays it 3 times along to the record

3:55 ... carlo plays it 4 times acapella, with no backing track ...

8:40 ... the lesson starts (teaching each lick in slow motion)

8:56 - Lick 1 (descending fast riff)

16:50 - Lick 1- part 2 (slide up to 14th fret & do bends)

21:25 - Lick 2 - (country type lick ascending lick to 3 high bends)

31:15 - Lick 3 = (long series of bends with triplet bends)

41:15- Lick 4- (slide up country type lick w bends, ending in
G-F-C bar chords)

43:20 - Lick 5 - (subtle, catty lick, with a bend on the 6th .. ends
with descending fast rock lick)

48:00- Lick 6 - (Ascending rock lick w slides and syncopation)

49:30 - Lick 7 - (slinky, thin, clean mellow lick, ending w 1st finger
slide down on B string)

50:15 - Lick 8 - (7th note slide up to root, then descending lick
ending in slide back down

57:00 ... play through the whole solo in slow motion ...

58:45 ... play through whole solo normal speed acapella