Lessons

Hearing Chord Changes Part 4

Austin Scelzo sent us a one hour lesson teaching a step-by-step method for how to learn to hear chord changes. We’ve divided this lesson up into several sections and are posting them over the course of several weeks. This is the fourth installment in the lesson series and works with three chord songs.

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Hearing Chord Changes – Part 3

Austin Scelzo sent us a one hour lesson teaching a step-by-step method for how to learn to hear chord changes. We’ve divided this lesson up into several sections and will be posting them over the course of several weeks. This is the third installment in the lesson series.

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Hearing Chord Changes – Part 2

Austin Scelzo sent us a one hour lesson teaching a step-by-step method for how to learn to hear chord changes. We’ve divided this lesson up into several sections and will be posting them over the next few weeks. In this second lesson he gives you some tips, and some practice, with learning how to find…

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Hearing Chord Changes – Part 1

Austin Scelzo sent us a one hour lesson teaching a step-by-step method for how to learn to hear chord changes. We’ve divided this lesson up into several sections and will be posting them over the next few weeks. In this first lesson he gives you some tips, and some practice, with hearing the changes in…

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Mandolin Arpeggios – Part 6

This is part six in a series on learning and using arpeggios on the mandolin. In the last segment, Dan Miller taught the minor chord arpeggio shape and the 7th chord arpeggio shape. In this video he demonstrates how to use those arpeggios to improvise over the chord changes to the song “Sweet Georgia Brown.”

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“Toy Heart” Fiddle Solo

In this video Austin Scelzo teaches Bobby Hicks’ fiddle solo for “Toy Heart” as part of his Bobby Hicks fiddle series.

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