On the basic TR run it seems that you mix up and down strokes on the first C note. Is this optional for you or just a quirk of recording the lesson? Up/down rules seem to dictate that this should be a down stroke. I sometimes switch the pick direction where it seems natural to me but when I realize it I go back and work on getting it "right" but think in the back of my mind that I have the option to do it either way. For example on the JM bass run my first instinct was to hit the G note with an up stroke. I have worked on this and can pretty consistently use all rest strokes now.
(PS We chatted at KC&Donny's wedding.)
(PSS I like your teaching style very much. I have previewed other online lessons but this is the first time I have signed up. I like the context info also, i.e. Rice does this, Martin did that. It helps me when I listen to various styles to understand what is happening.)
Glad to see you on here! Can you point out a couple of spots that you're talking about? It could be a quirk of recording the lesson. Sometimes I wind up doing an upstroke when I shouldn't! But some variations of the lick are intended to be syncopated to be "off" a 16th note. Much of Tony Rice's style is based upon syncopating phrases so that you have a full sequence of notes that are syncopated forward or backward by a 16th note. My guess it that I just screwed up, but I would be curious to see! :-)
Well, Chris, I have to eat crow on this. I've looked all through the videos and can't find what I thought I saw. Sorry.
Dave
I had to look up "penultimate." Good word.
Hi, Chris.
On the basic TR run it seems that you mix up and down strokes on the first C note. Is this optional for you or just a quirk of recording the lesson? Up/down rules seem to dictate that this should be a down stroke. I sometimes switch the pick direction where it seems natural to me but when I realize it I go back and work on getting it "right" but think in the back of my mind that I have the option to do it either way. For example on the JM bass run my first instinct was to hit the G note with an up stroke. I have worked on this and can pretty consistently use all rest strokes now.
(PS We chatted at KC&Donny's wedding.)
(PSS I like your teaching style very much. I have previewed other online lessons but this is the first time I have signed up. I like the context info also, i.e. Rice does this, Martin did that. It helps me when I listen to various styles to understand what is happening.)
Hey David,
Glad to see you on here! Can you point out a couple of spots that you're talking about? It could be a quirk of recording the lesson. Sometimes I wind up doing an upstroke when I shouldn't! But some variations of the lick are intended to be syncopated to be "off" a 16th note. Much of Tony Rice's style is based upon syncopating phrases so that you have a full sequence of notes that are syncopated forward or backward by a 16th note. My guess it that I just screwed up, but I would be curious to see! :-)
Well, Chris, I have to eat crow on this. I've looked all through the videos and can't find what I thought I saw. Sorry.
Dave