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Bluegrass Beginner Skills

  1. Foundational Skills

    1. The Foundation

      1. Holding the Banjo
      2. Picking Hand Position
      3. Picking Basics
      4. Finger Picks
      5. Fretting Basics
      6. Right Hand Basics
      7. Tuning
      8. Tablature Basics

  2. Rolls, Chords & Your First Song

    1. Rolls

      1. Alternating Thumb Roll
      2. Forward Backward Roll
      3. Index Leading Roll
      4. Middle Leading Roll
      5. Foggy Mountain Roll
      6. Forward Roll
      7. Backward Roll

    2. Chords + First Song

      1. Chord Basics - Part One
      2. Chord Basics - Part Two
      3. Bile 'Em Cabbage Down

Bluegrass Beginner Songs

  1. Bluegrass Beginner Songs

    1. Tom Dooley
    2. Banjo In The Hollow
    3. Blackberry Blossom
    4. Worried Man
    5. Bury Me Beneath The Willow
    6. Jesse James
    7. Red River Valley
    8. I've Just Seen A Face
    9. Cripple Creek
    10. Buffalo Gals
    11. Froggy Went A Courtin'
    12. Arkansas Traveler
    13. You Are My Sunshine
    14. This Land Is Your Land
    15. Cumberland Gap
    16. Oh Susanna
    17. Wabash Cannonball
    18. Turkey In The Straw
    19. Cluck Old Hen
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Clawhammer Beginner Skills

  1. Clawhammer Foundational Skills

    1. Foundational Skills

      1. Holding The Banjo
      2. Right Hand Basics
      3. Positioning The Fretting Hand
      4. Fretting Basics
      5. Tuning

  2. Chords, & Picking

    1. Chords

      1. Chord Basics - Part One
      2. Chord Basics - Part Two

    2. Picking

      1. Basic Picking Mechanics
      2. The Bum Ditty
      3. Tablature

  3. First Song & Flourishes

    1. First Song & Flourishes

      1. Skip To My Lou
      2. The Hammer On
      3. The Pull Off
      4. The Slide

Clawhammer Beginner Songs

  1. Clawhammer Beginner Songs

    1. Ground Hog
    2. Sally Ann
    3. Tom Dooley
    4. Shady Grove
    5. June Apple
    6. Handsome Molly
    7. Cripple Creek
    8. 9 Pound Hammer
    9. Bile 'Em Cabbage Down
    10. Long Journey Home
    11. Worried Man
    12. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
    13. You Are My Sunshine
    14. This Land Is Your Land
    15. I'll Fly Away
    16. Buffalo Gals
    17. Julianne Johnson
    18. Going Down That Road Feeling Bad
    19. Way Downtown
    20. Crawdad Song
    21. Sawmill Tuning
    22. Pretty Polly
    23. Man of Constant Sorrow
    24. Cold Frosty Morning
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Bluegrass Intermediate Skills

  1. Bluegrass Intermediate Skills

    1. Basic Licks
    2. The G Lick
    3. Basic Tag Licks
    4. Intro to Backup
    5. Intro to Vamping
    6. Inversions - G Chord
    7. Inversions - C & D Chords
    8. Coordinating Rolls With Inversions
    9. Multiple Rolls With Inversions
    10. Inversion Groupings
    11. Song Intro Licks
    12. Intermediate Tag Licks
    13. Harmonics Part One
    14. Harmonics Part Two
    15. The Choke Part One
    16. The Choke Part Two
    17. Vamping Embellishments Part One
    18. Vamping Embellishments Part Two
    19. Alternate Tunings

Bluegrass Intermediate Songs

  1. Bluegrass Intermediate Songs

    1. Eighth of January
    2. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
    3. John Henry
    4. Banks of The Ohio
    5. The Girl I Left Behind Me
    6. Mountain Dew
    7. Shenandoah
    8. Cherokee Shuffle
    9. I Saw The Light
    10. Amazing Grace
    11. Chicken Reel
    12. Clinch Mountain Backstep
    13. Little Sadie
    14. Old Joe Clark
    15. Salty Dog Blues

Clawhammer Intermediate Course

  1. Clawhammer Intermediate Course

    1. Double-C Tuning
    2. Angeline The Baker
    3. Eight More Miles to Louisville
    4. Bill Cheatham
    5. Shenandoah
    6. The Girl I Left Behind Me
    7. Cherokee Shuffle
    8. Drop-Thumb Technique
    9. Johnson Boys
    10. Dry and Dusty
    11. Left Hand Pluck
    12. Eighth of January
    13. Cluck Old Hen
    14. Arkansas Traveler
    15. Old Joe Clark
    16. Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine
    17. Cotton-Eyed Joe
    18. Green Willis
    19. Leather Britches
    20. Needlecase
    21. Old Molly Hare
    22. Sandy River Belle
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Bluegrass Advanced Skills

  1. Bluegrass Advanced Skills

    1. Bluesey Backup and Fills Part One
    2. Bluesey Backup and Fills Part Two
    3. Classic Scruggs Backup Lick
    4. Classic Scruggs Boogie Woogie Backup Lick
    5. Single String Backup and Fill Lick

Bluegrass Advanced Songs

  1. Bluegrass Advanced Songs

    1. Sleepy Eyed John
    2. Banjo Boy Chimes
    3. Yankee Doodle Dandy
    4. The Ballad of Jed Clampett
    5. Pony Express
    6. Dear Old Dixie
    7. Green Willis
    8. Red Haired Boy
    9. Virginia Hornpipe
    10. Blackberry Blossom
    11. Fisher's Hornpipe
    12. Whiskey Before Breakfast
    13. Saint Anne's Reel
    14. Roanoke
    15. Arkansas Traveler

Clawhammer Advanced Course

  1. Advanced Clawhammer Course

    1. Blackberry Blossom
    2. Old Time Billy In The Lowground
    3. Whiskey Before Breakfast
    4. Shady Grove
    5. Rickett's Hornpipe
    6. Fire On The Mountain
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