Grateful Dead · 1967 Debut Studio Album
| # | Song | Key | Chords | Numbers | Bass | Sources |
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| 1 | The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) | D | D, C6, G, F, C | 1, b7, 4, b3, b7 | Dedicated fingerstyle bass part rated 5/5 — the hardest bass rating of any song on the first three albums. Songsterr |
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| 2 | Beat It on Down the Line | C | C, F, G, A, D, C7 | 1, 4, 5, VI, II, 1(7) | Transcribed as an acoustic bass track rather than electric, reflecting the tune's Jesse Fuller country-blues origin. Songsterr |
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| 3 | Good Morning, Little School Girl | A | A7, D, E | 1(7), 4, 5 | Five-track transcription with a separate fingerstyle bass part (4/5). Songsterr |
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| 4 | Cold Rain and Snow | A | D, E | 4, 5 | Notated as pick bass (4/5); a separate Songsterr bass-cover transcription is the most-viewed for this tune. Songsterr |
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| 5 | Sitting on Top of the World | A | A, D, E, C, F7, G, A7 | 1, 4, 5, b3, bVI7, b7, 1(7) | Drumless transcription with the bass part rated 4/5. Songsterr |
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| 6 | Cream Puff War | A | A, G, D, C, Em, E | 1, b7, 4, b3, 5m, 5 | Centers on A through G and D as a root-and-fifth riff, then breaks into high-register playing (12th–22nd frets) with hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides in the solo. Big Bass Tabs |
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| 7 | Morning Dew | D | D, C, G, F, Em | 1, b7, 4, b3, 2m | The UG transcription of this line is very simple — a few open and fretted notes — making the underlying scale easy to read off it. Songsterr |
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| 8 | New, New Minglewood Blues | G | G, F, D, A | 1, b7, 5, II | Repeated riff landing on E, with Phil walking around the chord and transitioning up to the A; rated 3/5, the easiest of the era. Songsterr |
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| 9 | Viola Lee Blues | G | G, C, F | 1, 4, b7 | Spare three-track transcription — the trio texture leaves the bass carrying much of the harmonic motion through the long jam. Songsterr |
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