Lessons

Grassy Fiddle Blues

In this video Mike Mitchell teaches Kenny Baker’s break to “Grassy Fiddle Blues.”

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Learning a Fiddle Tune – Part 2

This is part two in a series of videos that discuss a method for easily learning fiddle tunes. In this segment, Dan Miller demonstrates the A part to the fiddle tune “Liberty” on the mandolin and talks about how to break the melody down into phrases and analyze the melody in a way that will…

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Learning a Fiddle Tune

In this video Dan Miller begins a series of videos that present an approach to learning fiddle tunes on any instrument that will help you learn the tune faster and be able to eventually develop your own solos and learn how to improvise. This approach can also help you learn how to handle songs at…

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Cherokee Shuffle on Banjo

In this lesson Dan Miller teaches an arrangement of the fiddle tune “Cherokee Shuffle” on the banjo.

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Fundamentals Bow Grip and Stroke for the Fiddle

In this video lesson Mike Mitchell provides fiddlers with information about the gripping the fiddle and executing the bow stroke.

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“Lonesome Road Blues” — Dobro

In this lesson Dan Miller demonstrates how to play “Lonesome Road Blues” on the Dobro starting with the simple melody and then using the note maps of the major pentatonic scale and the major blue scale as a basis for improvising on the tune.

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