Lessons

In this lesson Dan Miller teaches an arrangement of the fiddle tune “Cherokee Shuffle” on the banjo.

In this video lesson Mike Mitchell provides fiddlers with information about the gripping the fiddle and executing the bow stroke.

In this lesson Dan Miller demonstrates how to play “Lonesome Road Blues” on the Dobro starting with the simple melody and then using the note maps of the major pentatonic scale and the major blue scale as a basis for improvising on the tune.

Tyler Grant was featured in our “Learning to Play” column in the August 2023 issue. He has sent us a video lesson which discusses how to arrange your own solo on guitar using the melody to “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” as an example.

In this video Tim May demonstrates and talks about how to reharmonizes the chords on the B part of the song “Angeline the Baker.” Enjoy learning and implementing these new chord changes to an old standard fiddle tune to help make it more interesting for you and your audience.

In this video Dan Miller presents “Fireball Mail” on the Dobro and discusses how one might improvise on this tune using the note map of the major pentatonic scale as a guide.