HOMESPUNTaught By Tony Rice.
Level 4
60-minute DVD or VHS, Includes music + tab book
This archival video lesson, originally recorded in 1984, brings the fabulous Tony Rice picking style up close and personal so you can clearly see what he’s doing. Tony has chosen six songs and instrumentals to demonstrate a variety of styles and techniques, and he breaks them down carefully for the learning player.
Throughout this 60-minute lesson you’ll be able to watch the exact movement of both his fretting fingers and his right-hand flatpicking through our split-screen video technique and close-up camera work. In addition, Tony’s beautifully rendered performances of the songs and instrumentals he teaches make his tape a joy to watch even when you aren’t picking along with him.
Here are just some of the things you’ll see on his lesson:
• A detailed, slowed-down look at three hard-driving flatpick instrumentals: "Gold Rush," "Blackberry Blossom" and Tony’s dynamic kick-off to "Muleskinner Blues."
• The intros and accompaniments to "Church Street Blues" and "Cold On The Shoulder."
• A jazz chord arrangement to "Georgia On My Mind."
• Special tips on holding the flatpick and the use of the capo. Tony also
details the exact set-up of his 1935 D28, formerly owned by Clarence White.
Tony Rice is perhaps the greatest innovator in acoustic flat-picked
guitar playing today. His output spans the range from straight-ahead bluegrass
to jazz-inflected "new acoustic" music. Over the course of his career
he has played and recorded with virtually every luminary in bluegrass, including
J.D. Crowe and the New South, The David Grisman Quintet, Norman Blake, Ricky
Skaggs, his brothers Larry and Wyatt Rice and the supergroup known as the Bluegrass
Album Band. His many solo albums and those with his cutting-edge group, The Tony
Rice Unit, have created new standards for the acoustic guitar. Today, Tony Rice
remains one of bluegrass' top instrumentalists, bringing originality, vitality
and mind-boggling virtuosity to everything he plays.