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Free Bluegrass Guitar and Mandolin Lessons
Bluegrass Books Online is offering “teaser” lessons and MP3 backing tracks for guitar and mandolin. “Free tracks” offers PDFs of “Old Joe Clark” and “Temperance Reel” in TAB, as well as fast, slow, and “jam” versions of the song as MP3s to help you along. Here are the links to free lessons from Bluegrass Books [...]
Buster B. Jones: Country Fingerstyle Guitar
Think: Merle Travis Chet Atkins Jerry Reed And learn from the videos of Buster B. Jones. In pulling this post together, I learned that Buster died of liver failure in February, 2009. I never saw him live, but find his instructional videos the best for parsing the deceptively intricate (and criminally underrated) playing of Jerry [...]
Learn to Play “Old Joe Clark” (Video)
From Acoustic Magazine: One of America’s best-known fiddle tunes, “Old Joe Clark” has been recorded by Doc Watson, Pete Seeger, Bill Monroe, and many others. Early recordings by Fiddlin’ Powers and the Skillet Lickers were big country hits in the 1920s. Although there are conflicting stories about where the tune was written, there is a [...]
Blues Basics from Acoustic Guitar
This example illustrates a quick walkdown that Johnson might have used as an intro for a blues tune in E. Use your index finger to make a partial barre at the ninth fret, and your fourth finger to grab the high E on the 12th fret. This should leave your middle and ring fingers free [...]
Lessons from Acoustic Guitar and Guitar World
Great lesson on pedal tones from Acoustic Guitar. Tips to increase your playing speed from Acoustic Guitar. Acoustic Guitar explains Dominant 7th Chords. The opening riff to Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode, via Guitar World’s “101 Amazing Licks” – with tab and audio. Another “in the style of Chuck Berry” riffs, from Guitar World’s “101 [...]
Lester Flatt “G Run” Lick
What would the traditional bluegrass sound be without the booming guitar lick known as the Lester Flatt G run?
Cycle of Fifths
Notes on the Fretboard
