5 Grateful Dead Riffs for Beginners

[@GabrielBergman95]

Thanks for having me guys! Dream come true to make a video for Premier Guitar...maybe one day we do a 'Rig Rundown"?

[@weis1869]

Your delight and enthusiasm (plus technical chops) is damn encouraging!

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Gabriel has a great ear and touch for capturing the Jerry sound.

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@@weis1869 Thanks man!!

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Grats Gabe! Been following you for years now

[@colintmcc]

SO SICK! THIS DUDE SLAPS! Great smile and he shreds... incredible!

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😃 haha thanks Colin!

[@JustinJeske]

Gabe was the PERFECT person to do this video! 🔥🎸💀

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Thanks so much Justin!!

[@xianshep]

Help On The Way is awesome. Along with New Potato Caboose, Dead at their Progiest.

[@Mossb3rg206]

Blues for Allah is my favorite studio album they did. Workingman's and AB are close but Help>slip>frank, crazy fingers, Music never stopped.... 🎉

[@felipebeliz4546]

Amazing riffs!! Gabriel is a great teacher too, I really recommend him! I took lessons with him for two years prior getting admitted into Berklee

[@GabrielBergman95]

thanks homie!!

[@andrewpappas9311]

The first riffs I remember learning from the Dead were Casey Jones, Alabama Getaway and Scarlet Begonias, which are all awesome riffs and fun as hell to play

[@GabrielBergman95]

those are all great!!

[@andrewpappas9311]

@@GabrielBergman95 I was surprised they weren't included to be honest but this was still a great video, man, you're an awesome player

[@GabrielBergman95]

@@andrewpappas9311 maybe next one!! Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@andrewpappas9311]

@@GabrielBergman95 Cool, and it was great. Solid job, man

[@Mossb3rg206]

32 teeth in a jawbone....

[@rumy6871]

Great job. This video was fun, instructive, and inspires me to look again at these classics.

[@GabrielBergman95]

Really glad you enjoyed it!

[@afterjoe3042]

Amazing video! Played to perfection

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ahh, thanks Joey!!

[@Bhh-j2s]

Really cool. Thanks man!!

[@GabrielBergman95]

Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@averymac289]

Such a great video, loved your Friend of the Devil riff!

[@GabrielBergman95]

Thanks !! One of my favorites!

[@g.e.5723]

Your smile put one on my face.

[@GabrielBergman95]

ahh thanks man!!

[@dgmisal1979]

Great vids man. I love to go back and little further amd tag in St. Stephen and Turn On Your Lovelight.

[@GabrielBergman95]

Thanks man, glad you enjoyed the video!

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Gabriel always delivering the goods!

[@GabrielBergman95]

thanks man!!

[@johnsantiago3887]

Look out, John! This guy’s challenging your hair. Awesome video. Makes me want to pull out my albums and get to work!

[@GabrielBergman95]

haha!!

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Woohoo!!! 🎉🎉

[@juancruzleon]

Cant believe a dead head fan of BOCA JRS ARGENTINA??? Cheers from an another Dead Head from Argentina!

[@rebmoti1]

This is a great video but I’m not sure it’s “for beginners”

[@GabrielBergman95]

You can for sure break all these riffs down into much smaller forms

[@EdGloss]

If Shakedown doesn't put a smile on your face then are you really living?

[@GabrielBergman95]

Right!! It’s such a fun song!

[@EdGloss]

@@GabrielBergman95 MSG, October 15, 1994. They opened with Shakedown. It was actually the best part of that show.

[@GabrielBergman95]

@@EdGloss Ill check that one out!

[@EdGloss]

@@GabrielBergman95 Not the best version. I was just there. 😉

[@t.l.h.7704]

I remember Casey Jones and touch of grey when I was little but they didn't get much airplay.After seeing this I wish they would have and that we had more guitarists like this to be influencers.I wonder if David Gilmore or Mark knopfler were influenced by or vice versa Jerry Garcia?

[@xianshep]

China Cat ain't nuthin' without the Weir part (although THAT is hardly "for beginners").

[@tiberiusgracchus7328]

China Cat is the song that really brought me in as a Deadhead. If I want to show somebody what the Dead are all about, that's what I play for them.

[@sebapasta]

De qué jugador es la camiseta de boca juniors? Saludos desde Lanus, Buenos Aires, argentina

[@GabrielBergman95]

Morel Rodriguez, 09/10 jersey. Even has Riquelme's signature!

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Gabriel!!

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Ahhhh thats me!!!

[@nathanielvargas3863]

@@GabrielBergman95 that’s so cool seeing you featured in a Guitar World video! I hope this brings lot’s of new viewers your way

[@xianshep]

Never could stand the slow, dreary Friend Of The Devil that devolved from the sublime American Beauty version...

[@tiberiusgracchus7328]

Great stuff, but the title is kind of click bait. For beginners? Really? I'm not exactly a beginner anymore, but I thought this was about learning these riffs. It wasn't. However, I will be checking out more of these videos, because he has really got that Garcia sound. But please, no more click bait.

[@markmnorcal]

Now what does Robert do?

[@GabrielBergman95]

Bobby? loves triads!

[@psandvik]

10 seconds in and I thing we should hang out.

[@GabrielBergman95]

Lets hang out!!

[@andymandiak603]

Anyone wanting a deeper dive into Grateful Dead guitar parts needs to search for Mickey Toop

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Mickey is great!

[@stratonut]

Haven't bat danced in decades although it looks like I am while getting out of bed in the morning.

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Amazing!!!

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Esa remera de Boca Junior!!! Vamos boquita

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haha yes Boca!!

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Fluminense F.C

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WTF is this link spozed to be for? Gets a 404/Not found. And the boox on the BCM site aren't free evidently...

[@whitex4652]

I always thought that Grateful Dead was the shittiest band on the planet. I still think exactly that. :-(

[@psandvik]

You're robbing yourself.

[@GreenmanWood]

Get to a doctor, your ears are obviously totally stuffed with wax or probably something worse.

[@SugaryCoyote]

You just don't understand it so you lash out in ignorance. Have a nice life.

[@ardiris2715]

I am not a fan either, but these riffs sound great through a maxed distortion pedal. (:

[@cactaceous]

When I was an idiot in my youth that had not absorbed enough diverse music I didn’t get the Dead. In college I was exposed to and absorbed African music, electronic music, jazz, psychedelic music of the 60’s, funk, Brazilian music of the 60’s and 70’s… then one day I was riding in a car with a friend that had some concert playing as he picked me up. When the conversation died down I heard some crazy, elaborate solo that I immediately loved and asked who it was. Grateful Dead. He told me to listen to 3 different concert albums. I did. Years later I can say the Dead are one of my favorite bands ever.