Old Home Place, Part 1: Tony Rice’s Solo

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Learn the essential techniques of bluegrass flatpicking guitar through classic and lesser-known songs and tunes, from bluegrass blues to old-time fiddle tunes to country swing sounds.

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In Part 2 of the lesson on crosspicking, you'll learn the first part of Scott's arrangement of "Home Sweet Home," which mostly uses the traditional 3-3-2 roll. Since crosspicking is usually used to play song melodies, it's a good idea to learn the melody of a song before tackling a crosspicking arrangement, so Scott starts by making sure you know the melody to "Home Sweet Home" and then takes the arrangement apart phrase by phrase (or roll by roll).

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Old Home Place

Old Home Place, Part 1: Tony Rice’s Solo

Old Home Place, Part 2: Scott’s Solo

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Old Home Place, Part 1: Tony Rice’s Solo

Tony Rice’s solo on the legendary 1975 JD Crowe and the New South recording of “Old Home Place” is a classic. But it’s only a half solo, so if you’re going to play a complete solo on the song, you’ll need to come up with your own second half. In this lesson, Scott shows you Tony’s solo as well as his own solo inspired by Tony’s. In this video, in addition to showing you Tony’s solo, Scott explains how Tony’s unique idiosyncratic approach to pick direction makes it more difficult for strict alternating pickers to play some of the phrases.

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