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Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine July 1980, Volume 15, Number 1 Many years ago, John Duffey attended the annual auction of a post office selling items lost or unclaimed in the mail. Through a low bid, he acquired a large box of broken musical instruments. There among the damaged treasures was Duffey’s first mandolin. In…

In this video Mike Mitchell teaches doublestops on the fiddle. He shows how to choose your notes, keep them in tune and slide them up and down the fingerboard. Mike and his online student, Riley, use the Grassy Fiddle Blues to show this mechanism.

This week we feature guitar player and singer Clay Hess.  Clay first came to national prominence in bluegrass playing guitar with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder.  He later toured with Mark Newton, Sierra Hull, Mountain Heart and his own…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 1980, Volume 15, Number 4 The Sullivan Family of St. Stephens, Alabama, represent a synthesis of two of the strongest and most vital American musics: gospel and bluegrass. It is a powerful combination, the melding of these two musical styles, and the driving, emotional music of the Sullivan Family…

In this video series Dan Miller presents some ways that you can train your ear to hear intervals and thus improve your relative pitch skills. In Part 1, he worked specifically with ascending intervals related to the major scale. In this video he works with descending intervals related to the major scale.

This week we feature singer, songwriter and guitar player Mason Via.  We’ll talk about his growing up learning bluegrass music and songwriting from his father, songwriter and bluegrass musician David Via.  We will also talk about his time…