Lessons

In this video lesson Mickey Abraham demonstrates how a simple pattern on the mandolin, which his friend Christopher Henry calls “Dawgatonics,” can be used over a number of chord changes used for popular bluegrass songs and fiddle tunes. Learn this simple pattern and you can jam all night!

In this final video in the series highlighting bass runs on the guitar, Dan Miller demonstrates a variety of runs, moving from G to C to D and back to G in the key of G. These runs are variations on the techniques shown in previous videos, to show how you can grow your catalog…

In this video Dan Miller continues his series working with bass runs on the guitar. In this lesson he demonstrates a bass-run heavy (less strums) approach similar to that of old-time guitar player Roy Harvey. While this style may not work well when accompanying a full band, it can fit nicely when backing up on…

In this video Dan Miller continues his series on playing bass runs on the guitar. Here he demonstrates how to create movement in the rhythm accompaniment using notes out of the major pentatonic scale while playing over the same chord.

In this video, Dan Miller continues his series on bass runs on the guitar. In the video he teaches a run pattern that starts to descend into the target root note of the new chord and then, before reaching that note, jumps to the leading tone of the chord before landing on the chord root.

In the previous four videos, Dan Miller has demonstrated some ways to use a variety of bass runs to walk up from one chord to another chord in a I, IV, V progression in the key of G using an ascending bass run. In this video he demonstrates how to move in the other direction…