Lessons
“I Hear Banjos” on the Fiddle
In this video Mike Mitchell teaches you how to play a tune, “I Hear Banjos,” which he recorded one of his albums. The melody of this tunes is built from segments of several famous banjo tunes.
Bully of the Town – Part 2
In part 1 of this lesson, Dan Miller demonstrated playing the melody to the tune “Bully of the Town” on guitar. Here, in Part 2, he takes that melody and demonstrates how you might use techniques such as chord strums, tremolo, neighboring notes, double stops, toggle notes and cross picking to enhance the melody of…
“Bully of the Town” for Guitar
In this video Dan Miller demonstrates a melody oriented arrangement of “Bully of the Town” on the guitar. Tablature is available at the Bluegrass Unlimited website lessons page.
Take Me In Your Lifeboat
In this video Austin Scelzo teaches Bobby Hicks’ fiddle solo for “Take Me In Your Lifeboat” as part of his Bobby Hicks fiddle series.
Double Stops on the Fiddle
In this video Mike Mitchell teaches doublestops on the fiddle. He shows how to choose your notes, keep them in tune and slide them up and down the fingerboard. Mike and his online student, Riley, use the Grassy Fiddle Blues to show this mechanism.
More Ear Training – Intervals, Part 2
In this video series Dan Miller presents some ways that you can train your ear to hear intervals and thus improve your relative pitch skills. In Part 1, he worked specifically with ascending intervals related to the major scale. In this video he works with descending intervals related to the major scale.