Chords for CHURCH STREET BLUES LESSON -Tony Rice -NOTE for NOTE by Chris Brennan #ChrisBrennanguitar #tonyrice

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Ok, that was Church [Gb] Street Blues played at it's original tempo.
So [N] what I'll do now is play it at 40 BPM and then we'll analyse some of the crucial techniques
it's going to take to enable someone to play all those notes with just a little piece of
plastic like this.
Bear in mind this is note for note.
I transcribed the entire album. _
You can check that out here.
Ok, here we go.
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_ [A] _ [C] _ _ [D] _ [Eb] _ _ _
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_ _ _ Ok, so that's the notes.
But let's take a deeper look into some of those parts that might present difficulty.
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[E] And the first thing you come across is these three notes.
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It's hard to know really what to do with them.
So I'm going to show you a couple of different pick directional possibilities which will
make this a bit easier.
The first one is the traditional cross pick [Bb] approach which is just down up down up down. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ So the next one is two down and one up which is more in line with the [G] Tony Rice method.
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_ _ And you can hear a more syncopated sound with that one.
A good one to try and practice with Church Street Blues in mind is this next pattern. _
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_ _ _ _ [N] _ the next thing I want to show you is a good example of consecutive down [Bb] strokes.
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_ [F] _ [Eb] _ It [G] happens on [N] this B and C note right here.
_ Now what this does is _ it basically resets the pick.
If you take a closer look at the pick order here, _ it's down up down up down.
Now right here he resets the pattern to down which enables you to jump clear and use that
_ forward momentum and skip those two strings to then strike that C note on the B string.
And in [Abm] Tony's own words,
It's almost like playing billiards where you have to set yourself up for the next shot.
_ _ And sometimes I'll play an upstroke or a downstroke depending on what I think will come next.
_ _ Now we're going to have a look at the backward rake.
_ You can see this in action a lot, especially in the fiddle tunes like Gold Rush, Kettle in the Cane and so on.
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] It's just pushing the pick [Dm] on through the strings to sound two notes with one continuous sweep. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ It's all to do with economy of motion.
And a good way to land on that G note on the E string with that downstroke to then start a new pattern.
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When running down the strings like this from the high E to the low E,
you're going to find the importance of stability for the right hand to work from.
Now there's a few ways to do this, but since the subject is Tony Rice, we'll have a look at how he does it.
So here he anchors the right hand with the ring and pinky,
and with that able to control the height of the pick, I make it possible to adjust that distance on the way up and down.
[Eb] _ Now staying on the same section, there's another _ _ _ technique I want to look at,
and that is the push off _ as opposed to the pull off.
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[C] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
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a [B] couple of advantages with this, [Eb] and the first is forward momentum.
So when you push off a note from this area of the neck, the hand tends to move in the same direction as that little scale run down.
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_ [G] Again, it's an economy of motion _ _ as opposed to a pull off.
A pull off here would tend to move in the [Ebm] opposite direction.
[Bb] _ _ The other thing is [Bbm] there's a slightly different sound.
It's _ kind of a more slicker kind of sound, _ as you can hear in these next two examples. _
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_ _ And just to end, we've already covered this one, it's the two down, one up roll.
This time on the C shape position. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[N] _ Ok, so I hope you got something from that.
It really is the small details that will make the difference. _
Just remember to slow it down, clean it up, and then speed it up. _ _
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