Lessons

In this lesson Scott Napier introduces the Larry Rice tune “Spring Fever” and plays it on Larry’s iconic mandolin, which is now on display at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky. Larry Rice wrote and recorded “Spring Fever” on this mandolin. This is part one of a two part lesson….

In this video Mike Mitchell teaches his original tune “Lowground” on the fiddle, which is based on the common fiddle tune “Billy In The Lowground.”

In this video lesson Dan Miller continues his series on using alternating pick direction on the mandolin. This lesson, as with the last lesson, focuses on the pick direction as it relates to dotted-quarter notes. As an exercise, Dan demonstrates an arrangement of the fiddle tune “Old Indiana” using a lot of dotted-quarter note timing.

In this video Mark “Brink” Brinkman demonstrates a way to think about the mandolin fingerboard to shortcut learning how to play songs in any key.

In this video lesson Dan Miller continues his series on using alternating pick direction on the mandolin. This lesson focuses on the pick direction as it relates to dotted-quarter notes. As an exercise, Dan demonstrates an arrangement of the A and B parts of the fiddle tune “Maple Sugar” using a lot of dotted-quarter note…

In this video Mike Mitchell demonstrates fiddle bowing for playing rhythm to the fiddle tune “Soldier’s Joy”