Lessons

Arranging a Solo on Guitar

Tyler Grant was featured in our “Learning to Play” column in the August 2023 issue. He has sent us a video lesson which discusses how to arrange your own solo on guitar using the melody to “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” as an example.

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“Angeline the Baker” Alternate Chords

In this video Tim May demonstrates and talks about how to reharmonizes the chords on the B part of the song “Angeline the Baker.” Enjoy learning and implementing these new chord changes to an old standard fiddle tune to help make it more interesting for you and your audience.

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“Fireball Mail” on the Dobro

In this video Dan Miller presents “Fireball Mail” on the Dobro and discusses how one might improvise on this tune using the note map of the major pentatonic scale as a guide.

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“Love Of The Mountains” fiddle solo

In this lesson, Mike Mitchell teaches a fiddle solo to the song “Love of the Mountains”

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Guitar Fundamentals

In this video Brad Davis talks guitar fundamentals, such as holding the guitar, holding the pick, attacking the strings, left and right hand positions and more.

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Harmonized Scales on Mandolin

In this video Tim May explains harmonized scales on the mandolin and demonstrates a variety of ways that they might be used when improvising or creating solos.

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