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Bluegrass Fiddle Licks: The “Waterfall” Arpeggio

Great lick for tagging a solo or break, playing backup, filling the spaces, and building your technique. Bobby Hicks, renowned Bluegrass Fiddler, used this tool often in his solos. This is a Lesson and Playalong for how to Improvise and play back up in a bluegrass song. Bluegrass is a bit different from other fiddle…

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282: Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jeff Autry

This week we feature guitar player Jeff Autry.  Jeff has a fairly new single out and will have a new album out in the near future.  We talk with Jeff about that project as well as dive back into his long bluegrass career.

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Lyman Enloe—A Stylist of the Old-Time Fiddle

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine January 1989, Volume 23, Number 7 Lyman Enloe, a small, slimly built man in his 82nd year, is a nationally respected old-time fiddler and that’s what he’d rather be doing, as a rule. I notice that writers seem to bring out the nervous energy in him, as he clears his…

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Write Your Own Banjo Exercises // Bela Fleck Groundspeed Solo pt. 2

Tablature and Breakdown for these ideas:   / 116697027   Looking for cool banjo merch? https://teespring.com/stores/eli-gilb… Follow me on Instagram:   / eligilbertbanjo   Join My Facebook Practice Group:   / practicebanjoeveryday  

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281: Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Tabitha Agnew Benedict

This week we feature singer, songwriter, and banjo and guitar player Tabitha Agnew Benedict of The Foreign Landers and talk with her about her unique bluegrass story and the band’s newest project Made To Wonder. You will also hear a couple of…

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Bill Monroe performing at Bean Blossom, Indiana in June 1995.  // Photo by John Wegrzyn, Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum collection.

More Encounters with Bill Monroe

‘I know him, but he don’t know me’ Bill Monroe was properly regarded as the very model of a traditional American musician. However, he could also be full of surprises, whether poking fun or providing unexpected revelations about life and music.  Part One of this coverage included my experiences seeing, hearing and talking to Monroe…

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