Over the next few months, while college choices for rising high school seniors are forefront in the minds of many students and parents, we will present a series of interviews on Bluegrass Today with administrators/faculty members at colleges and universities
Bluegrass instructional resources
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Free Ron Block transcriptions online
Ron Block, guitar and banjo player with Alison Krauss & Union Station, has posted a number of free tabs on his web site. There are 22 in all, with both banjo and guitar transcriptions included, all available as free PDF/JPG
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New fiddle/mandolin tune book
Steve Parker and Alan Davis have released a new book of tunes for fiddlers and mandolinists. 150 Hot Tunes for Fiddle & Mandolin contains a mix of American and International tunes transcribed from recordings by notable players, plus a number
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UK Bluegrass interviews Brian Wicklund
UKBluegrass.com recently posted an interview with fiddle player, and instructor, Brian Wicklund. The interview centers around the instructional website BluegrassCollege.org. Brian was one of the founders of the site and continues to teach fiddle lessons online as one of the
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Gypsy swing playalong CD for mandolin and guitar
Noted instructor and instrumentalist Dix Bruce has two new book/CD sets for fans of the Hot Club of France sound, popularized by Django Rhinehart. They are titled Gypsy Swing & Hot Club Rhythm, with one for mandolin and another for
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Wyatt Rice rhythm guitar workshop
Flatpicking and bluegrass guitar superstar Wyatt Rice will be conducting a four-day workshop on bluegrass rhythm guitar at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch, August 24-27, 2007. Bluegrass fans know Wyatt for his many years playing guitar with brother Tony in The
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2nd Annual Targhee Bluegrass Music Camp
Last year the Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival held it's first annual instructional camp for the three days prior to the festival. The camp was successful and they have organized it again this year. The camp and the festival are both
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John McGann – Sound Fundamentals DVD
Noted mandolin teacher and transcriber, John McGann, has a new instructional DVD. Sound Fundamentals: Tone, Touch and Technique for Mandolin uses a number of crucial bluegrass mandolin techniques to help players find a wide range of pleasing tones, all the
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Pete Pardee measures interest in banjo book reprint
When it was first published in 1982, Scales And Arpeggios For Five String Banjo by Pete Pardee, was a groundbreaking effort. The book offered serious students of the banjo the sort of reference volume of applied music theory that had
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Adam Steffey DVD – special offer from AcuTab
We had posted last month with news about AcuTab's Adam Stefffey's first-ever mandolin DVD. At the time we indicated that it would be available on June 12, but the release has been delayed until June 25. To atone for the delay,