Lessons

In this video Brad Davis shows how a guitar player can easily become a banjo player by using the Deering six-string banjo. Here Brad will show some rhythm technique using the flatpick and then the flatpick combined with fingers. This is part 1 of a two part video lesson.

In this video Dan Miller explains how you can think about guitar soloing in the context of using major pentatonic scales and major blues scales on the guitar as your frame of reference. Tablature for these scales are included on the Bluegrass Unlimited Lesson Page.

The last couple of weeks we’ve been on the subject of crosspicking on the mandolin. This week we have Tim May playing a McReynolds style crosspicking arrangement of “Wildwood Flower.” Mandolin tablature is available on the Bluegrass Unlimited website lesson page.

This week’s video lesson is a follow up to last week’s mandolin lesson on crosspicking and harmonized scales. In this lesson Dan Miller demonstrates how to use three different crosspicking rolls on an arrangement of “When the Saints Go Marching In.” He also demonstrates how to use harmonized scales in arrangements of the A part…

In this video Dan Miller demonstrates four different crosspicking patterns that are typically used by mandolin players and how to use a toggle to come out of a crosspicking roll. He also explains harmonized scales and demonstrates how to use double-stops, the toggle, and crosspicking over harmonized scale patterns.

About 20 years ago Tim Stafford produced a video for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine titled “Acoustic Guitar Fundamentals.” In the video Tim presented his ideas about Tone, Timing, Tuning, Taste, and Technique. In this excerpt from that video we present a segment of the Timing portion of the video where Tim describes how to work with…