Lessons

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!

Christopher Henry teaches his approach to Monroe style mandolin improvisation. He presents beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of difficulty using the song “Blue Ridge Cabin Home” as his example. This is video 1 of 2. This video presents the instruction. The second video presents demonstrations of the tune at various tempos and practice tracks. 1:45…

This is the second part of Christopher Henry’s Monroe style mandolin improvisation video. Here Christopher demonstrates the solos to “Blue Ridge Cabin Home” at various tempos and also provides rhythm tracks so you can practice your solos. This is video 2 of 2 for this lesson. 0:01 -Blueridge Cabin Home- 85 BPM 1:15 -Blueridge Cabin…