Practice Tips

Improve Your Banjo Slides

Here’s a lesson that breaks down some beginner, intermediate and advanced level exercises you can use to improve your slides all over the neck.

Here’s a three easy step process you can use to improve your practice routine and break through difficult passages you’re working on!

Here’s some advanced single string ideas you can use out of the three moveable chord shapes!

Here’s an intro lesson for anyone who wants to start improvising. Using a blues form is one of the best ways to start.

Here’s a short lesson that reviews the three moveable chord shapes (F, D and Barre) and how to play them in major and minor.

Here’s a lesson on how to use chord tones and passing tones to find common bluegrass melodies.

Here’s a lesson on where melodies come and how to transpose them to different keys using the simple song Mary Had A Little Lamb.

Here’s a lesson that will help strengthen your pinky and show how you can use your pinky to play in a more traditional mandolin style.

Here’s a Doc Watson inspired bluegrass ending lick that works great out of the G chord shape.