Here is a crash course in Scruggs style banjo playing. Below are the fundamental building blocks that will get you up and running in no time. All of the examples that follow are played on a five string banjo in standard G tuning using two metal finger-picks and one plastic thumb pick. If you’re unfamiliar […]

Randy Lynn Rag is all about the forward roll. It can be quite a challenge but it’s a great tune. How J.D. Crowe plays it as fast as he does is beyond comprehension.
For those of you that are unfamiliar with the tune it requires Keith Tuners. Set the G tuner for G to F# and […]

This morning I was trying to upload a video to YouTube and ran into all sorts of problems. What the hell is going on over there this week. They’re butchering any video I try to upload. And when I say butcher I’m not talking about their normal, standard butchery, I’m talking unusable crap […]

Blackberry Blossom is right up there towards the top of the heap of fiddle tunes that are way overplayed. Love it or hate it here is an example of it.
The trick to making this tune sound like a musical performance as opposed to an exercise is to give it a bit of that shoulder-shrugging fiddle […]