Grateful Dead Tabs

Fans of Jerry Garcia and his band take great interest in finding Grateful Dead tabs. In order to be able to learn to play the great songs from this '60s and '70s guitar super-group, tabs are usually required. The Grateful Dead are one of the most legendary guitar bands of all time, and have had hit album after hit album, including Grateful Dead, American Beauty and Europe ‘72, to name but a few. Famous for their Wall of Sound, the Grateful Dead were at the forefront of Psychedelic Rock with other bands such as Jefferson Airplane, The Doors and more. They had an unusual line-up in that the band contained two drummers, an innovation that contributed to the unique sound that made the Grateful Dead famous.

The band had many individual songs that have become staples in the repertoire of serious electric guitar players, and guitarists seeking to learn these songs are always on the lookout for good sources of Grateful Dead Tabs.

Dark Star is one of the most famous Grateful Dead singles. Although its original running time clocks in at a mere two minutes and forty seconds, in a live setting it has been known to have been expanded to as long as 25 minutes. As a live piece, it was used as a basis for long and experimental instrumental jams, allowing the band members to showcase their musical talents. Resources with Grateful Dead tabs are usually found to have one or more versions of this song. Due to the fact that the Grateful Dead allowed fans to tape their shows, there are a many different live versions of Dark Star, and therefore a lot of tabbed versions abound.

Tabs for this song can be found at a selection of sites:

• 911 Tabs: This guitar tab site has 32 separate tabs for the song. The tabs come in straight text versions and also include tabs for the bass guitar parts.
• Ultimate Guitar: Ultimate Guitar has a number of different versions of Dark Star tabs, including short tabs that focus on specific passages in the song itself, rather than the entire song.

Truckin’ is a track from the album American Beauty. It is one of the most popular songs in the Grateful Dead catalog. Written in 12/8 time, it is an entertaining piece to play, rhythmically, and has one of the most popular lyrics in any Grateful Dead song –What a long, strange trip it's been. There are plenty of places to go on the Internet in order to find tabs for this particular song.

Some examples include the following:

• RUKind.org: RUKind is a fan site that has a list of songs by the Grateful Dead, including Truckin’. This site gives the chords of the song and tabs both the intro and the outro riffs of the song.
• Darks Grateful Dead Tabs: This website has a good representation of the song, tying phrases and passages to the lyrics for clarity of reading. The tabs themselves are clearly laid out with chord letters placed at relevant positions, and an indication of the scale used, in this case E Dorian.

There are many other Internet sources of Grateful Dead tablature to be utilized by guitar players looking to learn their songs. There also a number of tab books available, both offline and online, to help guitarists master their favorite Grateful Dead Tunes.

Interstate Music is one website that has Grateful Dead tab books for sale at affordable prices. The tab book Grateful Dead Favorites to Strum and Sing is also available at Amazon.com for those looking to jump straight into the songs they know and love from this seminal band.

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