How To Play Tony Rice's Manzanita - Advanced Bluegrass Guitar Lesson

[@flappoid]

We're learning this tune as we change performance genres from hard classic rock to bluegrass. Your are one of the very best we have seen as online tutors. My guitarist, who is a very talented blind woman, has asked if it is reasonable for you to pan your lessons hard right and left to isolate rhythm or lead, thus making it clearer for one who cannot access the tabs and notation. Thanks. Keep it up.

[@VincentVarano]

Dude, you are AWESOME! Thanks for teaching us this vital music to all bluegrass guitarists looking to advance their knowledge and ability!

[@benstokes5092]

Love this vid! Could you make a tutorial and things to take from the way Tony Rice plays Wayfaring Stranger?

[@entanglemententropy6227]

Mando player, here. When I want the lowdown on how to play anything Tony I check out Marcel first. He landed a home run on this one ... everything I need to know to do this song on mando is right here. Thanks again Marcel.

[@petergiffin9238]

Wow! I’ve been listening to this tune lately and thinking I must learn it. Thanks for this very clear and easy breakdown! 🎼😎👍🏼

[@vinhvu6300]

dude. this video is so informative and well made. thank you and keep them coming!

[@vinhvu6300]

also i'm trying to practice playing the lead and rhythm for this song. any way you could upload the videos of you playing the form separately to practice with?

[@yautt]

Such a great lesson, RIP Tony. I listened to this so much in college, his playing was so effortless.

[@JeffLearman]

This is a really great tutorial, thanks! The chords are different from the original album version; for example in bar 15 it's clearly an F on the original rather than a D7. But I hear the D7 in at least one later version (Jerry Douglas and Tony Rice Live in Hickory, recorded off FM radio by a friend.) But that's how it is; music isn't frozen in time.

[@SjaakShirly6559]

Hi Marcel, that must have cost a lot of time and devotion to figure this all out. Hats off! I enjoy this lesson very much. Thank you, thank you!!

[@davidtobin6563]

Great lesson! My favorite Tony song. I was working through off the book but now I have your tab! Thanks much!

[@iantaylor827]

Great lesson. Thank you. Somethng to aspire to.

[@alangraham6930]

Your an amazing teacher! Keep up the awesome work

[@josephjohnson4319]

Marcel your channel is a great resource, thanks for all the great info! Cheers!

[@gfmichelsen]

I never subscribe to channels but you sir have made an excellent video and an excellent lesson

[@bobbauer5933]

Thanks so much. Very nice instruction and great sheet music.! Jerusalem Ridge or Waltz for Indira would be my request.

[@dannytriplett8625]

Killer stuff dude. Thank's for all your hard work

[@zachsav3235]

can you do more rice tutorials? (nardis, waltz for indira, etc)

[@LessonsWithMarcel]

Been thinking about doing Port Tobacco maybe. But I'll definitely get to more!

[@iloverumi]

PORT TOBACCO!!!!!!!

[@michaelstrickland5636]

Port Tobacco would be dope

[@saoirsepaddy]

Thumbs up Thanks Marcel Cool tune I'm going to try learning Manzanita on my Irish 10 String Cittern DD GG DD AA DD

[@AidanHegarty97]

It would be so amazing if you could do devlin by tony rice and John Carlini

[@giacomobenini8626]

Anything from that album is pure magic

[@roberteckert]

Excellent job!

[@kevinsansom3109]

Great video. How about Waltz for Indira, perhaps more like the 1985 recording from Japan or the 2003 recording from Grey Eagle?

[@nancychace8619]

Hi Marcel, good lesson. I'm not sure about the billy goat part. By any chance do you happen to know Norrma

[@nancychace8619]

Problems with stupid phone. Do you know Norman Blake's Old Brown Case? That's another good one for someone who likes to pick.

[@blmjr]

Wonderful tutorial of a challenging tune! Thanks so much for the hard work. I was wondering if I missed the link to the tab in the comments? And would you consider selling the tab in Powertab format? Thanks for sharing your love of BG with the rest of us!

[@LessonsWithMarcel]

Whoops! Completely forgot to put the tab up. You should be able to find the link in the description underneath the video now! If you'd like the Power Tab copy email me at [e-mail]

[@MrLetitbee]

Hi Marcel ! What is your 2008 Martin DC AURA worth now ?

[@ptombarrett]

Marcel, your link for Manzanita tab is a dud. Any chance you can post the entire link. Thanks

[@LessonsWithMarcel]

Here you go: lessonswithmarcel.com/product/manzanita-tony-rice/ Still trying to catch all the dead links from when we switched websites recently! Sorry for the trouble. Marcel

[@Guitarwizzard1833]

Banjo Geoff Hohwald from Atlanta Georgia put out that Tony Rice book from the early 1980's. Tony never gave him permission. Al Smith from Georgia claimed to have done the transcribing. Tony told me it was very inaccurate…plus he told Geoff Hohwald to get lost when Geoff showed up with a "royalty" check many years after the book had been released…and the check amounted to pretty much nothing. Tony told Geoff he hoped that he never saw him at another one of his shows!! Tony told me this straight from his mouth!!!!

[@LessonsWithMarcel]

Hey Zane, I've wondered about this for so long! Thanks for finally clearing up that mystery. I knew there was something weird going on with that book.

[@travisd3583]

Where do you find that book?

[@dudehenchman]

If anyone could point me in the direction of a Backing Track for this, I'd really appreciate it!

[@RickyMier]

hexatonic, niice

[@marnel7787]

Hi Marcel, Though I love your videos, I have to say that I have the Tony Rice guitar book, and I find that transcriptions of the original recoding of Manzanita and other songs I've learned are quite accurate as far as the notes. I've always assumed that the tabs were hand written by Tony. I would be disappointed to find out otherwise. Perhaps Tony originally played the whole first half in the 5th fret Box Position? This seams like the easier way to play it, though I now like switching the positions as you've shown. It gives it a little better tone and feel. The hardest part for me to get down accurately are the slurs he does on the G and D notes in the second half of part A on the original recording. If the saga continues, that would be a good thing to address. Some things we just can't do like Tony does.

[@LessonsWithMarcel]

Unfortunately that book wasn't written by Tony. It was written by a guitar player in Georgia and then edited and checked over by a banjo player. They've all but removed their names from every copy due to negative feedback. They published that book without Tony's blessing and later offered Tony a check for pennies. Tony slammed his door in their faces. They continue to sell it, despite knowing it's inaccuracies. All that info is from Zane Fairchild.

[@marnel7787]

@@LessonsWithMarcel Wow, that's a mind blower. Here I thought I had a book put out by Tony with tabs in his own writing. Fortunately, now days I transcribe my own tabs for stuff I want to learn (Painstakingly), It's the best way to get the feel of a tune. However, I often have a hard time with the note values on some slides and hammer-ons. Especially in the kick offs. I use guitar pro with the playback capability, so I can hear when I don't have something written out right. It can be very time consuming to try and figure out the correct value. Sometimes it's just a mater of having the open note carry over to the next beat. I think you could do some good lessons on this subject . Thanks for your reply Marcel.

[@bcp5296d]

so tony plays this with the 6th string dropped to d right?

[@JeffLearman]

Correct.

[@AdamBromley-b7g]

its a big ask but would you make a more advanced version? i see all these videos of tony rice playing by himself, without any band and the chords are all mixed into the melody all jazzy like, which is really what i think makes things song so great, without being able to do something like this solo if you aren't in a band you really only get a quarter of the real magic. like if you watch this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ineliIKsiNp2e5o , compared to what this tutorial shows you (and this is the best tutorial available this is a great channel all together) i feel there's still a lot to be said

[@alidastjerdikermanshahi1813]

that must be low D not E.But thankt anyway for the lesson.

[@bcp5296d]

good lesson but it might help to tell people you dropped your low e to d on your lead video.....