Lessons

In this lesson Dan Miller demonstrates the G-Run on the guitar to help celebrate Lester Flatt being on the cover of the December 2024 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine. He talks about the mechanics of using the Rest Stroke and demonstrates a few variations of the G-run.

In this lesson Austin Scelzo demonstrates how to take a simple melody on the mandolin (using “Nine Pound Hammer” as his example) and add various techniques to the melody to make a solo sound “bluegrassy.” Follow Austin Scelzo’s YouTube channel for more tips and tricks on bluegrass and country fiddling, or subscribe to his email…

This is part two of a lesson that Scott Napier is presenting on the Larry Rice tune “Spring Fever.” In part one, Scott played the solo. In this video lesson he breaks down the solo piece-by-piece so that you can easily learn it. He presented the tune on Larry Rice’s mandolin, which currently resides in…

In this lesson Scott Napier introduces the Larry Rice tune “Spring Fever” and plays it on Larry’s iconic mandolin, which is now on display at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky. Larry Rice wrote and recorded “Spring Fever” on this mandolin. This is part one of a two part lesson….

In this video Mike Mitchell teaches his original tune “Lowground” on the fiddle, which is based on the common fiddle tune “Billy In The Lowground.”

In this video lesson Dan Miller continues his series on using alternating pick direction on the mandolin. This lesson, as with the last lesson, focuses on the pick direction as it relates to dotted-quarter notes. As an exercise, Dan demonstrates an arrangement of the fiddle tune “Old Indiana” using a lot of dotted-quarter note timing.