Tony Rice’s style changes quite a bit depending on what key he’s playing in. His driving bluegrass style is usually played in G position, and is much different from his playing in C position, especially when playing by himself, as he did on his recording of Norman Blake’s song “Orphan Annie” on Church Street Blues. In this video, Scott walks you through the first half of Tony’s first solo. It can be played with alternating picking, but there are a couple of sections that are more easily played using Tony’s unusual style of picking, so Scott shows you how Tony likely picked those sections.