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AHHH please help me! i am so ready to just drop playing guitar, i hit these learning curves all the time and im stuck at one again, and i have been for a month plus now... it sounds like my playing has become worse. So, my question.. jerry does that thing when hes soloing, its like a really fast repition of three notes asceding up the scale, like duhduhduh,duhduhduh,duhduhduh,duhduhduh, doooooo. faster and faster as he goes then finally peaks on some amazing note, most likely the root, but anyone who can explain what hes doing and anyone else who can play what im thinking of please post a vid or atleast a tab!!!please!

He's playing triplets of scale tones, moving one scale down for each triplet. He also does the reverse, ie descending triplets. In scale tone degrees for the mixolydian scale it would be something as followed. Each triplet set is in ()

(1 2 3) (2 3 4) (3 4 5) (4 5 6) (5 6 7b) (6 7b 1) (7b 1 2) (1 2 3) 4

I'm sure others on this site can provide a better explanation and tabs if needed

umm I think I might know what youre talking about, can you give us a certain song where he does it?

tons of them... i hear it in the closing of winterland in a couple tunes

yeeesssss. found it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5seCugLrhOM

the first lick of the solo!!!!please help!!!

A quick listen and I hear something like this

(/) Slide Up () Slide Down (h) Hammer On (p) Pull Off (b) Bend (r) Release (v) Vibrato

E|-----------------------------------------------------15------13------12---------
B|-------------------------------------12--13--14--15------15------15------13-----
G|-----------------------------12--14---------------------------------------------
D|-----------------12--13--14-----------------------------------------------------
A|--10/12--13--14-----------------------------------------------------------------
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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ill try that and let ya know... thanks

WOW! did you have a guitar in hand too, cuz thats amazing. thanks

once youve been playing a while you get used to certain sounds and something like that lick is not too hard to figure out. dont get discouraged if youve only been playing a month and cant figure out something like that

GratefulPat wrote:WOW! did you have a guitar in hand too, cuz thats amazing. thanks

Yes I did. You're welcome.

no ive been playing like 3 years but i just cant hear notes when theyre played so fast,normally figuring a lick out isnt to hard, but lines like that kill me

thanks all