Lessons
Tony Rice Rhythm Lesson Howie’s Breakdown
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…
Mandolin Basics Part 2
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.
Mandolin Basics-Part 1
In this video Tim May teaches some mandolin basics that will help you improve your speed, accuracy, and tone on the mandolin.
I Saw The Light-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,…
Isolationist’s Guide to Playing Mandolin Backup-Excerpt
The September 2022 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine featured an article about mandolin player Andrew Collins and his “Isolationist’s Guide” instructional series. For this week’s lesson, Andrew has generously offered an excerpt from one of those lessons. This one is on mandolin backup.
Improvisation Part 8
In this video Dan Miller wraps up the eight part series on learning how to improvise on songs that you’ve never heard before and discusses integrating this approach to improvisation with a couple of other approaches as outlined in earlier videos.