Lessons

In this lesson Orrin Star teaches how to flatpick “Old Joe Clark”. This is an excerpt from an instructional video that Orrin produced for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine. Unfortunately, Orrin passed away in 2017, but his excellent flatpicking instruction lives on. We hope you enjoy learning this version of “Old Joe Clark” from Orrin Star.

This is the second of a two-part video lesson where Tim May teaches you how to develop creative solos on the mandolin. In this video he talks about using straight scale and folded scale patterns drawing from six different scales: major scale, major pentatonic scale, major blues scale, minor pentatonic scale, minor blues scale, and…

This is the first of a two-part video lesson where Tim May teaches you how to develop creative solos on the mandolin. He first teaches the melody to “She’ll Be Coming Around The Mountain”. He will then run through a variety of techniques that you can use to embellish that melody. In this first video…

In this video lesson we are remembering our dear departed friends George Shuffler (1925-2014) and James Alan Shelton (1960-2014). You will see George and James play a few tunes and discuss the origins of the Clinch Mountain style crosspicking the guitar. James will then demonstrate the technique and show you how to use crosspicking on…

Anne Luna provides you with some great ideas regarding walking bass lines show how to walk the bass line within a chord and while passing from one chord to another in a progression.

In this lesson Andrew Collins teaches you how to learn to play faster using the tune “Daybreak in Dixie”. If you feel like you are stumbling at fast tempos, check out Andrew’s advice and technique for improving speed and learn a great classic bluegrass tune while you are at it!