Tony Rice’s jazzgrass waltz “Old Gray Coat” is one of his most memorable melodies. The melody of the first four bars, in the key of E minor, is the meat of the tune, and this four bars is followed by four bars of chords. With a basic AABA structure, in which the B part repeats this melody in D minor and then C minor. This could be a simple tune to learn, but Tony has arranged the tune with different length interludes and chord progressions. In addition to learning the melody of the entire arrangement, you’ll learn the chord voicings Tony uses to accompany the melody of “Old Gray Coat,” voicings that he uses a lot in his jazzgrass work with David Grisman and his own Tony Rice Unit. Scott starts by showing you the single-note melody to the first four bars and the chords to the second four bars. The A part is 16 bars long, and the second eight bars starts with a repeat of the first four bars and ends with a new four-bar melody over some A and Asus4 chords. After you learn the whole 16-bar A part, Scott shows you Tony’s two-bar intro to the tune, as well as the four-bar interlude (a repeat of the melody of the last four bars of the A part an octave higher) that is played before the bridge.
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"Old Gray Coat" (Available to subscribers)
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