Lessons

In this video Dan Miller continues with the topic of building your chord vocabulary by continuing with another example of Texas swing style rhythm, again, using the fiddle tune Sally Goodin’ as an example. This lesson provide an alternate rhythm accompaniment to the popular fiddle tune, different from last week’s example.

In this video Dan Miller continues with the topic of building your chord vocabulary by introducing Texas swing style rhythm using the fiddle tune Sally Goodin’ as an example.

In this video Dan Miller continues with the topic of improving your chord vocabulary on the guitar using Kenny Baker’s “Festival Waltz” as an example.

Dan Miller uses the tune “Sweet Georgia Brown” to demonstrate how you can start to expand your chord vocabulary on the guitar and use a swing style of rhythm on tunes that follow a Circle of Fifths chord progression.

In this video Dan Miller discusses Up-the-Neck banjo backup on slow songs by presenting Earl Scrugg’s backup on the first verse and chorus to the song “I’ll Never Love Another.”

Dan Miller talks about harmonized scales and how they can be used on the banjo using the tunes “Ground Speed”, “Theme Time”, “Dear Old Dixie”, “Cherokee Shuffle”, and “Bill Cheatham” as examples.