Lessons
Bluegrass Bass – Beyond the Root and Fifth
Working with a very common I-IV-V chord progression, Anne Luna gives you some great ideas about how to spice up your bass playing beyond the standard alternating root and fifth technique.
SonnyOsborneTuningTechnique
Casey Henry provides a great banjo lesson this week teaching how to quickly keep your banjo in tune after placing your capo on your instrument. She uses a technique that she learned from Sonny Osborne.
Five String Banjo Lesson – Willie Coleman’s
In the April 2022 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine, we reviewed a new Mel Bay Publications book titled “The Complete Tune Playing Toolkit for 5-String Banjo” by Jamie Francis. For this week’s video lesson Jamie has graciously sent us a video teaching one of the tunes from the book, a jig titled “Willie Coleman’s”
Fiddle Tune Phrasing Part 1
In this video Mickey Abraham teaches an approach to learning the language of fiddle tunes for flatpicking guitar players by examining fiddle tune phrasing, and more.
Megan Lynch Chowning How to End Bluegrass Songs
For this week’s lesson Megan Lynch Chowning teaches how to end bluegrass songs on the fiddle.
Bluegrass Bass Lesson with Nate Sabat
Nate Sabat is a Berklee College of Music graduate who performs with the band Mile Twelve. He has written a wonderful book (with audio) titled “Dirt Simple Upright Bass” which has been published by Mel Bay Publications. In this lesson, Nate gives you a chance to learn some of material from the book in a…