Lessons

In this video Dan Miller discusses the Alternating Pick direction technique on the mandolin and provides a number of basic exercises to help you familiarize yourself with this technique.

In this lesson, Dan Miller demonstrates two arrangements of the fiddle tune “Mississippi Sawyer” for the mandolin. The first arrangement is a very simple beginner version. The second arrangement adds some embellishments to the simple version.

In this video lesson Dan Miller demonstrates and arrangement to the song “Jesse James” on the banjo. This video is part of a series discussing Scruggs style phrases on the banjo and this is the conclusion of the series on playing over the D chord, so in this arrangement a variety of D chord phrases…

In this instructional video Mike Mitchell and his student Ben Smith demonstrate an arrangement of “Washington County” on the fiddle and then teach you how to play it.

In this video Dan Miller presents “John Hardy” on the banjo. Tablature for the arrangement is available on the Bluegrass Unlimited website Lessons page. He also demonstrates, and provides tablature, for a couple of variations to use over the D chord since the last lesson that was posted presented a variety of Scruggs-style phrases that…

Alan Munde is being inducted into the IBMA Bluegrass Hall of Fame this month. In honor of Alan, Tim May has arranged his well known original tune “Peaches and Cream” for guitar and demonstrates his arrangement in this video. A tab transcription of this solo can be found on the lesson’s page of the Bluegrass…