Lessons
Learn Music By Ear Video Number 3
In this video Dan Miller continues his series on Learning Music By Ear by finishing up showing how to find the melody to “When the Saints Go Marching In.” This is the third video in this series.
Wyatt Rice Rhythm Guitar Lesson
Nearly 20 years ago Flatpicking Guitar Magazine produced an instructional video with Wyatt Rice titled “Advanced Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar,” hosted by Dan Miller. In this excerpt, Wyatt Rice demonstrates a straight-forward approach to rhythm over a G, C, and D progression. He then demonstrates how he might spice that up with various rhythm techniques. He…
Learning Music By Ear: Finding the Melody 1
In this video Dan Miller demonstrates how to find the melody of a song by ear. In an earlier video, he demonstrated how to find the key and the chords to the song “When the Saints Go Marching In.” In this video he demonstrates a method that you can use to help you find the…
Brad Davis and the Guitar Capo
In this video Brad Davis demonstrates various types of guitar capos, discusses not only the basic use of the capo, but also demonstrates how two guitar players might capo in different positions when playing together in order to provide different textures to the same tune and he also shows how to play a “Drop D”…
Learning by Ear: Finding the Key and Chords
In this video lesson Dan Miller demonstrates how you can learn to use your ear to find the key and the chords to any song. Recommending that you start ear training with very simple songs, Dan demonstrates how to determine the key (from your own singing voice), and then find the chords to a song….
Mandolin Maintenance
In this video Tim May, a talented instrument builder and repairman-as well as a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter-talks about how to care for and maintain your instrument. In the video, Tim mentions “Acoustic Music Pro” and their website address. This company, and website, no longer exist. They have given Bluegrass Unlimited permission to post this…