Lessons

Nearly 20 years ago Flatpicking Guitar Magazine produced an instructional video with Wyatt Rice titled “Advanced Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar,” hosted by Dan Miller. In this excerpt, Wyatt Rice demonstrates a straight-forward approach to rhythm over a G, C, and D progression. He then demonstrates how he might spice that up with various rhythm techniques. He…

In this video Dan Miller demonstrates how to find the melody of a song by ear. In an earlier video, he demonstrated how to find the key and the chords to the song “When the Saints Go Marching In.” In this video he demonstrates a method that you can use to help you find the…

In this video Brad Davis demonstrates various types of guitar capos, discusses not only the basic use of the capo, but also demonstrates how two guitar players might capo in different positions when playing together in order to provide different textures to the same tune and he also shows how to play a “Drop D”…

In this video lesson Dan Miller demonstrates how you can learn to use your ear to find the key and the chords to any song. Recommending that you start ear training with very simple songs, Dan demonstrates how to determine the key (from your own singing voice), and then find the chords to a song….

In this video Tim May, a talented instrument builder and repairman-as well as a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter-talks about how to care for and maintain your instrument. In the video, Tim mentions “Acoustic Music Pro” and their website address. This company, and website, no longer exist. They have given Bluegrass Unlimited permission to post this…

This video is part of a much longer video titled “Rhythm, Timing and Groove” that was put together as a companion to a book by the same name. The book was published, but the video was never produced. Here Brad Davis talks about three interesting rhythm guitar concepts: the “Muted Strum,” the “Rake,” and the…