Lessons

In this video Dan Miller teaches you how to play Charles Sawtelle’s arrangement of “Durham’s Reel” as played on the Hot Rize recording “Hot Rize.” The transcription is taken from the book “The Bluegrass Guitar Style of Charles Sawtelle” that was published by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine in 1998.

In this video Mike Mitchell teaches you how to play the break to “Big Spike Hammer” that Bobby Hicks plays on Bluegrass Album Volume 3 “California Connection”

Songwriter Brink Brinkman presents some songwriting tips using his song “Fences” as an example.

Brian Wicklund, of the American Fiddle Method, was featured in the April 2022 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited. Here Brian gives us a sample introductory lesson to share from his American Fiddle Method lesson series using the tune “Sally Goodin.”

In the first edition of “Essential Bluegrass Solos”, bluegrass fiddle transcription class with George Jackson, we look at how to play a bluegrass fiddle solo in the key of B through a study of Stuart Duncan’s incredible solo on the tune “Rebecca”, from Jim Mill’s 1998 album “Bound To Ride”. For a full written transcription…

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.