Lessons

In this video Randy Lanham teaches an arrangement of “Amazing Grace” on the fiddle.

In this video lesson Dan Miller demonstrates how to play the tune “Home Sweet Home” in the Carter Style and then shows how to transition the arrangement to a crosspicking variation.

In this video lesson Dan Miller demonstrates “Theme Time”, also known as “Theme Breakdown,” based on an arrangement of the first solo that Mike Scott played on his 1983 album “Classics for Banjo.” Thanks to Mike Scott for allow us to use this arrangement. A tab of this arrangement can be found on the Bluegrass…

In this video fiddler and fiddle instructor Randy Lanham discusses details of the fiddle bow hold. This is a must see video for beginners and even more advanced fiddlers may gain some good insights that may help their fiddle technique.

In this lesson, Dan Miller continues to demonstrates patterns on the bass. In the last lesson he showed three different patterns to use when playing a I-IV-V progression in any key. This lesson shows how you can build off of those three patterns to find out where the II, III, VI and bVII patterns are…

In this video Mike Mitchell offers an arrangement of “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” on the fiddle.