Dan Crary Flatpicking Medley

[rdeb1210]

wow i`m a piano kinda guy, But this is amazing!

[71NAVY]

He has more talent in this pointer finger than I do in both hands!



[TheDaddyNaggins]

Amazing !!!!!!!!!

[fngrpkn06]

Dan is fantastic saw him shreddin' at Winfield a few years back, never forget it.

[krazyguitarpicker]

Great tone! I really like how the chords just blend in with the melody. I wish I were that good. I'll work on it! :)

[jaapblack]

Mind blowing!

[methodinsane]

Anyone know what pickup system he's using? I see an internal mic for starters.

[peterpun1]

A Martin? Why? He plays his signature model Taylor.

[lostcowhand]

@peterpun1

You just answered the question. A Taylor is nothing but name.

[gimpyjwilliams]

@lostcowhand so is martin thats all opinion

[lostcowhand]

@gimpyjwilliams

Except Martin has nearly 100 years of experience with flattops and many other stringed instruments. Taylors are fine guitars for the most part, but they can't justify the several-hundred-dollar price difference from an equivalent Martin.

[artiscrap]

his right hand looks bizzarre - he holds the pick with two fingers almost. look at 1:57. proof that textbook technique is not always neccessary to being a shit hot flatpicker!!

[FenceThis]

it´s a bit annoying witnessing how a fairly skilled guitarist seem to moreorless denying his perfectly functional and pretty long 4th finger permission to participate in the action most of the time.

[Nashvilleagain]

. . . great to hear Dan again - superior ! Please check my Dan Crary video with Groundspeed in Germany ! ! !

[489177]

Imagine how good this would sound on a Martin Guitar.

[NeilFraudstrong]

I am playing on a Martin guitar now.

[wgtroutman34]

@489177

Taylor took what martin suggested and perfected it. that's why he's playing a taylor and not a martin.

[maggottilleternity]

@489177

Yeah? Why so?



[Godsfaithfulservant]

2:44 Bonaparte's retreat?

[41452124]

What tuning is this? It sounds different.

[MrDJoers]

it is a baritone guitar

[flatpikinguitar]

@MrDJoers its not a baritone. its just a regular guitar in regular tuning. if anything just drop the low e down to a d

[MrDJoers]

@flatpikinguitar I don't think you're right. Look at the scale length of his guitar. A baritone needs the extra neck length so the lower tuned strings have enough string tension. Also, he is capoed up a couple frets and it sounds like a regular scale acoustic with a drop d, so therefore he has to be tuned lower, i.e. baritone guitar.

[flatpikinguitar]

@MrDJoers ive played this guitar before. its his custom taylor

[MrDJoers]

@flatpikinguitar I will not be drawn into an internet fight. Pause the video at 0:37 and see how long the neck is; it looks like it is the length of his leg. There is absolutely no way that isn't a baritone guitar. "It's his custom taylor" I'm sure he has many custom guitars, and if you did play one, how can you be sure it was that exact one? There, I'm done. I am not convinced your right, you have no proof to your statements.

[GenericAnonymous]

I went to a Workshop/Demo he put on for Taylor Guitars, its a regular guitar, he has Taylor build him regular guitars with 16 frets before the body. If you stop the video and count the frets

you'll see that the marking that usualy marks the 12th is on the 14th. Its a Taylor DCSM Long Neck, its on his site "dancrary.com/guitars.html"

[bt7358]

@41452124 He's tuned down a whole step, with drop D on the top string

[reddstewart]

Wow! Beautiful! Very moving!

[oddiomio1]

1:36 - 2:32 .....Wonderful....

[lanerant]

if the music is in you, and you need to get it out then whatever technique you pursue will work fo ryou. Just look at PAt Metheny's technique in both hands. technically wrong on every level but oh so right because it allows him to make the music he does.

Agreed that it seems improbable, David Grier as well, but they can do it because they HEAR it!

[mornar75]

Lanerant,great comment !! :)) Have you read "the music Lesson" Judging from your deep comment, I yould say that you have if not you might want to give it a shot ! P.S. I have no clue why I wanted to respond to your comment, grabbed me I guess :)) book is by Victor L WOOTEN.

[lanerant]

thanks for the tip, mornar75, i will check it out.

I teach music for a living and have been a professional musician for 20 years. did a masters in music theory blah blah blah, I love every minute of it and I'm glad that what I said grabbed you! means a lot!

cheers,

la

[littlemac85r]

Fuckin bad ass, also he looks like nick nolte lol.

[RandyHaddock]

Awesome stuff.

[chesshirecat2]

niice

[budster525]

AMAZING!!!!

[stevesprinceofsteaks]

Dan has always been one of my favorites. And that is high praise from a fiddler.

[jteran29]

This is what gets me out of bed every morning. I have never heard of this guy. Next stop.. Itunes!

[wesmantodd1974]

Big Dan is a prof at some university in Ca. I met the guy, and spoke to him on different occasions-this looks like it's in Winfield Ks., at the Walnut Valley Festival; but I could be wrong. Dan's been one of the more prominent flatpickers for 30 years or so.

[Galacticplane]

EXCELLENT!

[mattgutzler001]

Wow! This is my kind of music right here! I love it to death! Bluegrass is definitely one of my favorites of all time. And what a fantastic guitarist. Every time I listen to this guy play I get chills. Long live Bluegrass!

[KevGobProductions]

you are g a y

[tantoonie0]

I interview Dan last week for our newspaper, and he's even nicer as a person than he is good as a guitarist. Phenomenal.

[pretourious]

Sweet! The man definitely has what it takes and THEN some!

[rtep5]

I couldn't hold a pick like that either but hey, it works for him, don't it?!!! and I'd say what ever works, dude!!!

[flatpikinguitar]

i dont see how david grier can hold the pick and control it like he does, but HE DOES.

[konnfusius]

well played. but he hands the pick like a pencil. i would use another (in my opinion) better technic by leading it with just 2 fingers!

[awol465]

How does your playing with your "better technique" compare? :-) BTW Dan's friend Beppe Gambetta is using this technique now.

[jteran29]

This does not sound lacking in technique.

[srv779]

the tunning is dropped d, capo on 2' fret. im sure about this

[popoaggie]

Dude, watch the video. He's capo'd on 4th fret.

[srv779]

your right but its a bariton guitar. what i ment to sat is that if you want to play this tune at the same scale as dan, thats what you should do.

[temriver]

Absolutely stunning. Dan Crary is one of the masters! Thanks for posting.

[zaketjulie4ever]

waaahhwwouuu !!!!!♥

[dreadnought45]

Thanks, beatlish.

[papercup32]

If u all think this guy is good....go check TONY RICE...whoops this guy's ass!!

[Baulrog]

nah, this guys' pickin'

Rice uses a pick and his fingers, amazing, absoluteley, but different technique

[villagodzilla]

Baulro- Rice uses only a pick and not his fingers

[letebaguere]

tony rice? check out church street blues or shenandoah on youtube- he most definetly fingure picking as well as flatpicking

[Tycho114]

@letebaguere You can also see it in the version of "Shenandoah" that's on YouTube. In his 2007 interview in Acoustic Guitar mag, Tony says there are difficulties in using that technique in a live context.

By the way, I think the genesis of that technique for flatpickers is Clarence White; he started hybrid-picking when he was playing electric with the Byrds, and by all reports he had incorporated it into his acoustic style at the time he died.

[beatlish]

Oh please...Tony and Dan are equally fine players with different approaches to flatpicking. Tony has a nice bag of trademark licks which he regularly throws into the mix, while Dan tends to work variations directly form the melody most of the time.

[jevoshawke13]

Nice assessment!

[trawickjtt]

lol! dan crary rocks, but he cracks me up sometimes! haha!

[jamsmi174]

Dan played in Tulsa @ the Dust Bowl in 1964

and while I was a new learning player .. I was amazed at what he did and how powerful a player he was ...and he is......

the best flat top man in the Biz.

J Smith

Tulsa

[dreadnought45]

I think it's a very low tuning down a whole step with a dropped D from E on the sixth string with the capo on the 4th fret which make it sound like he's playing in the Key of E. Hope it's not too confusing.

[Mmmyess]

Not sure about the tuning, but he's playing a baritone guitar, which would also explain why it's tuned down and then capoed back up.

[beatlish]

It looks like standard tuning to me, though Dan does like to use dropped D when playing in D, as that low D gives him somewhere to go when he paints himself into a corner, and it gives a nice drome in Celtic material.

[beatlish]

Apologies dreadnought45. I just capoed up and followed a few of the phrases and I think he is a whole step low.

[srv779]

what tunning is this?

[murrmac]

excellent, fluid clean flatpicking from one of the all time greats.

thanks for putting up all these great videos, Stefan.