Learn how to use your fingernail angle to create a stronger fretting-hand position on the mandolin. You’ll move across all four string courses, gradually widen the stretch, and practice keeping your fingers close to the frets. Then you’ll apply the same position to a Bill Monroe-style double stop, a 2-4-6-7 B major scale pattern, and […]
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Learn how a small change in your fretting-hand angle can help clean up your banjo chords. You’ll use the direction of your fingernails as a visual checkpoint, then build the position one finger at a time. The lesson also shows how this angle can improve string clearance, keep your fingers closer to the frets, make
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Learn what to do when you miss a note, lose your roll pattern, or forget where you are in a song. This beginner banjo lesson teaches you how to leave mistakes behind, protect the rhythm with a simple thumb-pinch safety net, and use clear chord landmarks to find a confident place to jump back in.
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Here’s a lesson that will help you become less dependent on tab and allow you to create your own basic bluegrass backup.
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Here’s some techniques and exercises you can use to apply tremolo to bluegrass tunes!
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Here’s a great two measure D lick that J.D. Crowe used a lot on The Bluegrass Album Band recordings!
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Here’s a lesson for Make Me A Pallet On The Floor in the key of C that will imitate some of the great fingerstyle gutiar players like Mississippi John Hurt, Chet Atkins and Tommy Emmanuel.
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Let’s learn a classic must know up-the-neck Scruggs lick!
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Here’s a lesson on how to add ornaments (slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, drone strings, alternate picking) to a basic melody using the old song London Bridge.
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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.
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