Jerry Garcia's Slipknot! solo

My Summer of Jerry continues

A while back, I learned how to play the Dead's epic suite of "Help On The Way" into "Slipknot!" into "Franklin's Tower". However, I skipped the jam, because I wanted to focus on the composed parts. But since this is apparently the Summer of Jerry for me, I thought it was time to work out his solo on "Slipknot!" too. I decided to do the version from Blues for Allah because it's short, concise and punchy. I think it's one of Jerry's finest solos on record. It starts at 4:18.

There are three sections to the solo, which I call A, B and C. The A section is the first 28 bars of the solo, about a minute and ten seconds long. The B section is the four-bar passage when Jerry lays out and Bobby and Keith play an ascending riff that the Grateful Dead Guide calls "Slipcord" (the idea being that they are pulling the ripcord to signal the end of the jam.) Finally, the C section is Jerry's last ten bars of solo before they go back into the written part.