Lessons

In this video Dan Miller demonstrates how to take a simple melody-using the song -When The Saints Go Marching In- as the example-and create a mandolin solo by using tremolo (and variations of the tremolo), double stops, neighboring notes, and the toggle technique.

In this fiddle lesson George Jackson presents ‘Mississippi Sawyer” in three parts. The first part is the “classic” version of the tune. The second version is one that is influenced by West Virginia old-time fiddlers. The third version is a transcription of the recorded version of the tune from George’s album “Hair & Hide” (reviewed…

In this video Dan Miller demonstrates how to take a simple melody-using the song “When The Saints Go Marching In” as the example-and create a mandolin solo by using chordal strums, major pentatonic scale notes, and scale runs to fill in between the melody notes.

In this video Dan Miller shows how to build a solo on the Dobro for the song “Salty Dog Blues.” He starts with the melody and then shows several different ideas regarding how to build a solo from the basic melody.

This week Dan Miller explains a bit of the theory behind Circle of Fifths chord progressions using the song “Salty Dog Blues” as an example.

In this video Dan Miller demonstrates how to play “Old Joe Clark” in the melodic style. He then demonstrates how you can mix the Scruggs, single-string, and melodic styles to create an interesting solo to “Old Joe Clark.”