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"Casey Jones" by The Grateful Dead

Riff Rundown

Difficulty: Easy - Intermediate

Composer - Garcia / Hunter

Where to find this song - Workingman's Dead track # 8

Release Date - June 1970

Throughout most of three decades, this band was the object of love for popular music's most celebrated fan following -- the Deadheads. Their numbers and devotion were legendary in their own right -- The Grateful Dead were the ultimate cult band, and a great deal of popular bands get their stylings from this band.

To learn the first verse to this song, click here.

Chorus 1

The Chorus has 3 different parts. Two rhythm guitar parts and a bouncing bass line (we'll learn the 1st rhythm guitar part tommorrow). Here's what they all sound like together:

Guitar 1

Guitar 2

There are a couple of new chord forms presented here that were not in the 1st verse. Here they are:

F

G (type 2)

E7

 

Bass Guitar

Many of you guitar players will probablly try to skip over this part, but I think you should try to learn it anyway. You don't even need a bass guitar. You can learn to play it on your 6 string guitar. The 4 strings on the bass guitar are the same as the bottom 4 strings on the guitar: E,A,D,G.

Click Here For Part 3

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