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Not Bluegrass? No apologies needed. You might as well say it’s not jazz, it’s not klezmer, it’s not classical. Who cares. It’s nice mandolin!

Funny, i have a song i wrote a long time ago that i...

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Thanks to the slowdowner on Free Bluegrass Backing Tracks (fbbts.com), I recently found out about the playbackRate attribute of the video and audio HTML5 elements.

So... I was able...

Sorry if this has been posted here before--as it may very well have been...
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I just posted a new addition to my series of video mandolin lessons called "What Is A Doublestop?" Enjoy! (Even if you know what doublestops are, it's worth watching as a study in...

OK, ran through a bit of this last night (um, maybe 10 seconds worth!). I can make those first 10 seconds sound pretty good, but what an amazing player Sierra Hull is.

What kills me is how...

Here's what she plays in the first video. Gorgeous arrangement, super creative and super difficult. It was also a complete bear to transcribe (as I'm sure a few of you have figured out). Try not...

I am a big fan of pentatonic scales used as both a key center or as an extended arpeggio. Here is a short video I produced showing an intermediate to advanced technique using pentatonic scales as...

If you use Safari you can download Youtube videos using [command+option] A. Once you've got the video, you can watch it on quicktime, and slow it down with [command] K. Easy.