Lessons
Megan Lynch Chowning How to End Bluegrass Songs
For this week’s lesson Megan Lynch Chowning teaches how to end bluegrass songs on the fiddle.
Bluegrass Bass Lesson with Nate Sabat
Nate Sabat is a Berklee College of Music graduate who performs with the band Mile Twelve. He has written a wonderful book (with audio) titled “Dirt Simple Upright Bass” which has been published by Mel Bay Publications. In this lesson, Nate gives you a chance to learn some of material from the book in a…
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Dobro Lesson
In this video, Joe Wilson teaches how to play “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” on the Dobro. A play-along audio track is provided on the Bluegrass Unlimited web site Lessons page.
Cross picking Bury Me Beneath The Willow on Guitar
In this video James Allen Shelton demonstrates how to crosspicking “Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow” on the guitar. This is an excerpt from the instructional video “Clinch Mountain Guitar” that James made for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine. The guitar tab for this arrangement can be found on the Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine website Lessons page.
Cross picking Uncloudy Day
For this week’s lesson we are providing another selection from James Alan Shelton’s “Clinch Mountain Guitar” instructional DVD. Here James will teach you how to crosspick “Uncloudy Day” the Clinch Mountain way. Guitar tablature is provided on the lessons page of the Bluegrass Unlimited web site.
Basic Dobro Back Up – Part 2
In this video, the second in a series of video on Basic Dobro Back-up, Dan Miller provides tablature for a variety of roll patterns and discusses using rolls in Dobro back-up. He also demonstrates how to connect chord changes with connecting licks. In the next lesson in this series Dan will discuss fill licks.