Lessons

In this video lesson, Dan Miller continues the topic from the last banjo improvisation lesson by demonstrating how you can practice using various right hand roll patterns over chord changes to begin learning how to improvise on the banjo. In this video he uses the tune “Boil That Cabbage” down as an example.

In this video lesson Dan Miller discusses how to start thinking about improvisation on the 5-string banjo. He first talks about playing a solo just using the notes of the chords combined with banjo rolls, then he discusses adding notes from the major pentatonic scale and the major blues scale.

After performing with David Grisman and recording several “space grass” albums, Tony Rice came back to bluegrass with a new and broad vocabulary of chords. Ever since then bluegrass guitar players have been curious about those chords that Tony masterfully used. In this lesson, Jason Keiser (who is featured in the November 2022 issue of…

In this video Tim May teaches a continuation of Part 1 whereby he talks about more mandolin basics that will help you improve your speed, accuracy, and tone on the mandolin.

In this video Tim May teaches some mandolin basics that will help you improve your speed, accuracy, and tone on the mandolin.

In an earlier video Dan Miller showed you some folded scale patterns on the mandolin. In this video he demonstrates how you can fit some of those patterns, or partial patterns around a melody using the song “I Saw The Light” as a demonstration. He first plays the melody, then the melody with added tremolo,…