I watch this and then go practice like crazy. Get it rippin pretty good and think there’s no way he’s playing it that much faster than me. Go back to watch and…
He's the flat picking version of Chet Atkins. Both of them could make an open C chord sound like a 50 piece orchestra. This is magnificent performance, it's hard to overestimate how difficult this is to play to that standard.
So much to this. I’ve heard other versions of this played by Cris Eldridge, Billy Strings, Trey Hensley. All fantastic players. This version of Tony’s is very complicated. They say the right hand is everything and anybody can learn the left. Not on this one. Some of the runs are no joke especially the g chord run with his middle finger at the beginning. Unbelievable. Then you have cross picking and alternate picking, sweep picking. Again utterly masterful. I tried three months working on just the intro before the first verse. Started out .25 speed then after a month .50 speed. I know people three times as good as me and they all said it is so complex. They got it up to .75 speed and couldn’t get it full speed. Tony rest well son, you are truly the GOAT.
I’m a music lover and guitarist and i like every kind of music there’s is good in every genre when you search but Tony Rice is my favourite and the first on my list guitarist i have absolutely no doubt about it. Everything he has done is fantastic . He was the master of bluegrass but not only, he mixed bluegrass with jazz that resulted in bluejazz lol . Guitar mastery , there was something so special in his tone and playing . He found so much of space in a mesure even at top speed and not to forget his beautiful voice . Rip Tony Rice
das wunderbare lied begteitete uns immer wieder mit dem bulli in den süden frankreichs (sete fronignan) und andere länder europas.immer auch gern gehört ,hotell zur langen bämmerung, hannes du hast mich 50 jahre begleitet.
Er ist nicht nur ein Meister auf der Gitarre, auch seine Texte sind genial. Er nimmt kein Blatt vor dem Munde, spricht die Ungerechtigkeiten direkt an. Und das schätze ich an ihm sehr. Hörenswert.
David Anthony Rice (Danville, Virginia, 08 de junio de 1951-Reidsville, Carolina del Norte, 25 de diciembre de 2020) fue un guitarrista acústico y músico de bluegrass estadounidense. Es considerado uno de los guitarristas acústicos más influyentes del bluegrass, el bluegrass progresivo, el newgrass y el jazz acústico.
Beautiful song and wonderful arrangement. I bought the videocassette with the tablature in the 90s. I play self-taught at an amateur level, I tried to modify this wonderful arrangement for the classical guitar a little. Today I can play it, not so well, but I enjoy it. A thousand thanks
He never picks the high E string except at 1:21 and 3:13. What a master Tony was. It doesn’t even sound like strings, just rolling sounds of bittersweet joy.
As I understand it, Tony first played this D-28 when he was 9 years old. It had a crazy high action and had been horrendously modified and missed treated. The horrible treatment would continue for years before Tony obtained possession of it and started to restore the instrument. But, after Tony got her back in decent shape. A tropical storm hit the Florida town he was living in and his house was flooded resulting in this Martin winding up under water. So the restoration process had to start all over again. But Tony never gave up on his old Martin
