Lessons

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.

In the video lesson Dan Miller explains and demonstrates three simple patterns that a bass player can use to play a I-IV-V progression. By knowing and utilizing one of these three patterns, you can easily play a I-IV-V progression in any key on the bass.

In this video lesson Dan Miller shows three different patterns that can be used to play a root-fifth note sequence on the upright bass. After demonstrating the patterns, he shows how those patterns might be used in application, with variations, in the keys of G, C, D and A.

In this lesson Dan Miller continues his series on playing fiddle tunes on the Dobro. In the last segment he taught an approach to the A part to “Blackberry Blossom.” Here he completes the previous lesson by presenting the B part to “Blackberry Blossom.”