Lessons

In this video lesson Mike Mitchell, from the Floyd Music School, teaches you how to play (and sing) the classic “Wildwood Flower” on the fiddle. He demonstrates a simple melody-based version and a couple of variations.

In this video lesson David Benedict, from Mile Twelve and “Mandolin Mondays” fame, demonstrates how to put a swing feel into your mandolin playing and provides you with a few right hand exercises to help you add various accents and dynamics into your playing and gain better control over your right hand.

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…