Lessons

In this video lesson Dan Miller demonstrates how to create a solo to “Eight More Miles To Louisville” on the mandolin using folded scale patterns to embellish the melody.

In part 1 of this lesson, Dan Miller demonstrated playing the melody of the tune “Bully of the Town” on guitar. In Part 2, he took that melody and demonstrated how you might use techniques such as chord strums, tremolo, neighboring notes, double stops, toggle notes and cross picking to enhance the melody of the…

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.

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…

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.

In this video Austin Scelzo teaches Bobby Hicks’ fiddle solo for “Take Me In Your Lifeboat” as part of his Bobby Hicks fiddle series.