Lessons
Basic Scruggs Phrases – Part 4
In this video lesson, Dan Miller continues with his series on building a Scruggs style banjo vocabulary. In this lesson he shows some more phrases that can be played over the G chord and then demonstrates now one might combine some of the phrases shown in all of the lessons posted to date. A banjo…
Angelina Baker for Mandolin
In this video Randy Lanham shows how to read a style of mandolin tablature, then displays an arrangement for the song “Angelina Baker” (or Angeline the Baker”) using that tablature while the mandolin plays the tune along with a rhythm track. He then demonstrates how to play the tune on the mandolin. This is an…
Basic Scruggs Style Banjo Phrases – Part 3
In this video Dan Miller continues his series on learning the Scruggs style banjo vocabulary. Here he demonstrates a variety of phrases that can be played over a G chord and discusses variations of those phrases that will help modify the licks to fit different song melodies.
New Camptown Races
In this video lesson Mike Mitchell teaches you how to play Randy Howard’s arrangement of “New Camptown Races” on the fiddle. A PDF of the music can be found on the Bluegrass Unlimited website Lesson page.
Basic Scruggs Phrases – Part 2
In this video lesson Dan Miller continues to help build your Scruggs style lick vocabulary by showing a variety of licks the use the 3-2 pull-off on the G string and he demonstrates how some of them are used in a few well known tunes.
Basic Scruggs Style Banjo Phrases – Part 1
In this video Dan Miller helps you to start building a Scruggs-style banjo vocabulary by teaching several common Scruggs-style phrases and demonstrating how they can be used in songs like “Cripple Creek” and “Cumberland Gap.” Tablature is provided on the Bluegrass Unlimited website Lessons page.