Lessons

In this video lesson Dan Miller presents a banjo solo to “Nine Pound Hammer” using a number of the Scruggs style phrases over the G chord that have been presented in the previous videos on building a Scruggs style banjo vocabulary.

In this fiddle lesson video Mike Mitchell teaches you how to play a fiddle solo to J.D. Crowe’s “Blackjack” based on a Mark O’Connor solo taken from a YouTube video of O’Connor performing the tune in a live show with J.D. Crowe.

In this video lesson Dan Miller presents a banjo solo to “Blue Ridge Cabin Home” using a number of the Scruggs style phrases over the G chord that have been presented in the previous videos on building a Scruggs style banjo vocabulary.

In this video lesson Dobro master Billy Cardine explains and demonstrates a Dobro rhythm technique that can be used when you want to help your rhythm accompaniment on the Dobro have a fuller sound than what is typical when using a chop or roll.

In this video lesson, Dan Miller continues with his series on building a Scruggs style banjo vocabulary. In this lesson he shows some more phrases that can be played over the G chord and then demonstrates now one might combine some of the phrases shown in all of the lessons posted to date. A banjo…

In this video Randy Lanham shows how to read a style of mandolin tablature, then displays an arrangement for the song “Angelina Baker” (or Angeline the Baker”) using that tablature while the mandolin plays the tune along with a rhythm track. He then demonstrates how to play the tune on the mandolin. This is an…