Lessons

In this video, Dan Miller looks at the first two phrases of the A part to the fiddle tune “Red Haired Boy” on the Dobro. He first goes through the chords and the melody note-for-note. He then makes suggestions about how one might modify the execution of the melody using hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides, and…

Solo flatpicking guitar on fiddle tunes can be a challenge because the performer has to learn how to provide rhythm, melody and harmony during the performance. In this video Jeremy Fritts demonstrates techniques that you can use in the execution of solo flatpicking using the song “Golden Slippers” as an example.

This is the first in a series of video lesson where Dan Miller presents an approach to learning fiddle tunes on the Dobro. In this first video he prepares for what is to come by discussing and demonstrating some different ways to approach playing the G scale on the Dobro.

In this video lesson Keith Yoder teaches how to find the melody of a song by using the chord shapes as a guide. He uses the tune “When The Saints Go Marching In” as his example.

In this video Mike Mitchell teaches Kenny Baker’s intro and break to the bluegrass Christmas classic “Christmas Tims A Comin.”

In this video Dan Miller teaches a straight forward simple Scruggs style banjo solo to the fiddle tune “Bill Cheatham”