Church Street Blues lesson Tony Rice version broken down and explained briefly

FINALLY this is a lesson on my version of Tony Rice's version of Church Street Blues, it's not exactly note for note like Rice's but pretty close I think.

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[shankarank]

Nice video! I had tried to figure out what Tony did and failed at hitting it exactly on the money. His sweep crosspicking technique threw me for a loop, so I combined it with the original version by Norman Blake to make my own. I'm definitely gonna go take another stab at the Tony version with the aid of this vid. Thanks pretourious!

[pretourious]

@shankarank Thank you Shankarank! I hope this vid helps! It's a fun little tune to play but one of the hardest I ever learned!

[joeshea1010]

working the last fortnight on CS blues, and this I found to be a great piece of teaching very natural, non-pedantic, loose enough to leave something for the imagination, very nice once again.

[pretourious]

@joeshea1010 Thank you Joe, I hope it helped in some way, hard little tune to play.

[tonyrice199]

what's that at 2:57



[pretourious]

@tonyrice199 Referring to the capo as the nut, I'm noting the 5th string at the second fret and the second string at the third fret and playing strings in the order of 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and first. It's partially a "G" major chord just not playing all the notes.

[pretourious]

@altadena57 I hope I'm referring to the right chord, it's a C sharp, you only want to hit strings 4,3 and 2 bared at the 6th fret, Tony hits this with a downward stroke with the pick, hitting them upwards produces a different sound. He uses this chord once in his video instruction tape, but he seem to use it twice on live performances in the second and third verses only.

I love that chord too! using it to enter the g sharp in any song has a cool sound. :)

[altadena57]

What's the chord at 7:50, right after the G, in the verse?? And does Tony put that in every time?

Thanks VERY MUCH; I love that chord; I want to get it right.

[pretourious]

@qoquaq Thank you qoquaq, I'm glad it helped, this is a tough little tune to pull off and I need to practice at it more myself.

[qoquaq]

Certainly took me a while to get this down, and play it at the right tempo, but I’m finally there.

Thank you very much, your lesson was invaluable.