• New lesson from BluegrassBooksOnline

    Rick Williams has a new free guitar/mandolin lesson up at BluegrassBooksOnline. This time out, he has arrangements of the popular fiddle tune, Big Sandy River. Two versions of the tune are available for both mandolin and guitar, with each version including

  • Parking Lot Pickers Songbook for banjo

    Here's a new Mel Bay release that is sure to become an important reference for banjo pickers. Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Banjo Edition includes well over 200 popular songs, complete with chords, lyrics and the basic melody presented in

  • FiddleStar Youth Fiddle Camp

    We just got a note from fiddler Megan B. Lynch, fiddler with 3 Fox Drive, announcing a summer camp she is conducting for young fiddle players. The week of July 16-20, 2007 will see the first FiddleStar Youth Fiddle Camp. The

  • Adam Steffey mandolin DVD due in mid-June

    Adam Steffey's first-ever instructional DVD for mandolin is due for release from AcuTab Publications on June 12. It will be a two-DVD set, entitled My Approach To Bluegrass Mandolin. The first of the two disks focuses on Adam's approach to the

  • Music Theory for Dummies

    Anytime I teach at banjo workshops - or spend time with serious beginner-to-intermediate pickers - I hear questions about the best way to learn something about music theory - the structure and "rules" that govern how we define musical tones

  • Bluegrass Museum: 2007 Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp

    We failed to mention this when it was announced recently, but in case any readers don't know about it, here it is. The International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY is moving forward with plans for it's second Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp.

  • David Grier’s Supercharged Flatpicking on DVD

    We just discovered that David Grier's instructional video Superchared Flatpicking is now available on DVD. This video has been around for a number of years on VHS only. For all the flatpickers out there this is a classic must have. The