Lessons

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…

In this video Brad Davis will show you how to practice the “Rhythm Pick Pattern” or RPP. The exercises help you to work on right hand control and accuracy on the guitar and Brad will show you how you can utilize the technique to spice up your rhythm playing.

Vocal coach Dede Wyland teaches the basics of breath support to help you improve your singing abilities.

In this video the fiddle player for the award-winning bluegrass band Nothin’ Fancy, Chris Sexton, shows you very helpful details about holding your fiddle bow and bowing technique.

In this video award-winning songwriter Mark “Brink” Brinkman explains how to find rhyming words when writing your songs. He teaches you how to keep the message of your song the priority, not the rhyme…and he gives you some hints on how to do that.