Sorry about my camera quality here y’all. I wasn’t at my normal set-up. Go practice and get off KZread!

Starting a new channel: Slow-ny Rice: Tony Rice Songs, But Just One Note A Day

Absolutely. Found out playing slow is super hard. Whatever stresses your hand for strength and stability needs that strength for twice as long. Discovered millions of flaws less noticeable (or understandable) at fast tempos. Also, I find super exaggerating your phrasing at slow tempo allows it to come out and be hear at faster tempo automatically without thinking.

This was great to hear. I am working on a little practice project I’m calling ‘100 fiddle tunes at 100 BPM.’ It’s been super fun. Playing them on both mandolin and guitar. I also think learning tunes on both instruments is helping my ear a lot

Another excellent video. (If I play really fast) "will I win at guitar?". Funny

I think the most important thing said in this vid is "140 is just fine." I think we sometimes forget that the idea of a break is to serve the song. Anything faster, unless the lines have an easily identifiable melody or are joltingly interesting, ends up sounding like the musical equivalent of gibberish. I can think of about three players who can do that consistently. But playing at 160 does impress other guitar players, that's for sure.

Steps to being a fast guitar player:

Bob Minner is a great example of someone who plays beautifully and doesn’t shred at fast tempos

Excellent. Tunes are exercises. Steve Kaufman recommends taking dozens of tunes and working them through each of the 5 CAGED positions. The idea is that you learn to improvise by getting the sounds of the vocab in your head, so you hear the common sounds rather than working out of patterns. Makes sense. We don't teach babies grammar. We teach them Mama (more or less!). WIth apologies to E Scruggs.

I agree 100% with fiddle tunes: unlike some other genres bluegrass fiddle tunes often act as etudes. The basic versions of the standard repertoire is almost the equivalent of Carcassi's etudes for classical guitar: grat for technique beautiful in their own right. Then they can be improvised on at more advanced levels.

Thanks Jake Eddy, thanks Marcel! Soon as I get off work I'll be home practicing!

Learns one fiddle tune goes straight to this video

Thanks for these videos 🙏

Starting at about 160 bpm, fluidity and rhythm start to appear while flat picking bluegrass tunes.

The secret is play every minute you have free

Great takes here gents

You should do an interview with Jake Workman too

"...Of this group, Paul Desmond stayed truest to the ultra-cool aesthetic. He had little interest in adopting a flashier style, jokingly referring to himself as the “world’s slowest alto player.” On the surface, Desmond’s solos appeared to offer a lush romanticism, but only careful listeners were apt to catch their richer implications."

Marcel , this is a lot of fun I love Jake....

I think what Jake was saying that the focus is the song-- it's all about the song, if it makes sense to play a little fast so be it, but much of the time its about being tasty and not speedy.