Lessons
Learning A Fiddle Tune – Part 4
This is the fourth in a series of lesson pertaining to learning and exploring fiddle tunes on any instrument. In this segment, Dan Miller discusses how to take the basic melody and explore it by moving it to other areas of the fingerboard, changing keys, and adding additional notes. He uses the A Part to…
Learning a Fiddle Tune – Part 3
This is part 3 of a series where Dan Miller teaches an approach to learning fiddle tunes using the tune “Liberty” as an example. Here he works through the B section and analyzes this section in 2-bar phrases and shows how to simplify the melody.
Grassy Fiddle Blues
In this video Mike Mitchell teaches Kenny Baker’s break to “Grassy Fiddle Blues.”
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…
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…
Cherokee Shuffle on Banjo
In this lesson Dan Miller teaches an arrangement of the fiddle tune “Cherokee Shuffle” on the banjo.