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Rick Here-   After years of trying to learn Bluegrass Guitar from private and online lessons, I finnally DIT IT

Man, I had been to so many guitar sites because as so many know online guitar lessons are the most cost effective and convinient way to learn.

I tried JamPlay.com for 140$. Not easy to follow lessons.

I tried InfiniteGuitar.com for 99$. Boring.

I tried WorkShopLive.com for 84$. Ameteur Teachers.

Finally, I was out at a friends house and he brought out his guitars after dinner. He was light years ahead of me. I later asked him how he learned so much so fast. He told me that he learned some from friends but really took off with.

Jamorama.com lifetime member 49.95$. Exciting, easy, it works

Moments before now, I share with you, your new guitar secret.

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They even have free bluegrass guitar lessons to let you see how powerful this Step-by-Spep program is.   Never taken an online bluegrass guitar lesson, Now is your chance.

So you’re looking for Bluegrass Guitar Lessons and you’d prefer to get them for Free?

Well, look no further cause I found em’ for ya!

First let me tell you how I stumbled upon these Free Bluegrass guitar lessons

Man did I think I was a great guitar player a year ago. Now, looking back, I was TERRIBLE!
I used to strum open bar chords, the old G-D-C and think I was impressing someone. I was always blown away by the ease which most guitarists ran across the fret board.

Now when I’m talking Bluegrass style, you know what I’m talking about. From the great Clarence White to the more recent David Grier style, I live for Bluegrass. Watching these Bluegrass masters at work is going to give you pleasure to your years, but is NOT going to make you a quality Bluegrass guitar lesson. Good guitar lessons must follow a certain criteria. This criteria must be made by someone who is willing to put in the time of day and therefore must be charging a surmountable fee, right? Wrong. Finally someone is giving away Free Bluegrass guitar lessons. No joke. Well, they’re probably not QUALITY bluegrass guitar lessons than.

Wrong.  They are the best online bluegrass guitar lessons I’ve ever found. And I’ve done my research.
I used to think searching for Free YouTube Bluegrass guitar lessons would allow me to save money and progress at my bluegrass, but it led me down the same frustrating path…
A bunch of show offs who have no idea how to teach. Plus the videos are so short that they can’t fit enough quality content to get the lesson across to you.

So where the heck did I find these Free Bluegrass guitar lessons already!

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My search for free bluegrass guitar lessons ended as I realized that anything free only led me to people showing off how good they were at guitar and than trying to offer guitar lessons. I found some online bluegrass guitar lessons here and there, but nothing that compared to Jamorama. The name didn’t really stick with my idea of bluegrass guitar lessons, but it proved to be the all inclusive online guitar instruction.

Are there Free Bluegrass Guitar Lessons?

I used to think I could teach myself guitar by just learning some chords and finding tabs online. This worked for the first year or so, but I found that I never really progressed to where I wanted to be. I was stuck playing chords while I sat and watched others free flowing up and down the fretboard. This is when I realized I need some real bluegrass guitar lessons. You see, for bluegrass you need to really know the fretboard up and down. Bluegrass is not just chords, but covers a variety of scales and progressions. The fingerstyle is intricated and the right hand plucking is like no other style I had played before.

Youtube Bluegrass Guitar Lessons

Being pretty Internet savvy I thought I could get around paying for online bluegrass guitar lessons. I would search for youtube bluegrass guitar lesson only to find people who were far superior to me, but also people who couldn’t teach to save their lives. They taught way to fast or way to slow. I had to find the perfect bluegrass guitar lesson for me.
Now don’t get me wrong, YouTube has some great videos of some of the best Bluegrass guitar work out there, but it’s just not the best source for bluegrass guitar lessons.

My Results for Online Bluegrass Guitar Lessons

All roads led to Jamorama. It was a tough decision for me to suck it up and pay, but it was well worth it. To tell you the truth, I never even thought I’d be able to play real bluegrass music before I started learning with Jamorama. I started with some simple Acoustic guitar lessons and progressed so fast I got into blues and bluegrass. I now enjoy bluegrass the most because of it’s intricacies and the great sound it makes for all the enjoy!

While you are looking for bluegrass guitar lessons, take some time to be inspired by some of these great bluegrass guitarists. I used to sift through endless online videos trying to get free youtube bluegrass guitar lessons, but I found it too difficult to find anyone who made an all inclusive program that made sense. All the free bluegrass guitar lessons were just people showing off how great they were at bluegrass already.
Finally! I found the most complete online bluegrass guitar lessons. The lessons are custom shaped for your own progression. You have full control and the program actually pushes you to get inspired and get better.

Tony Rice – Freeborn Man – Bluegrass

When I started to learn to play guitar I often felt completely helpless. I took a guitar lesson here and got guitar instruction from friends, but I never felt like I truly conquered the guitar. I remember learning my first few guitar riffs and guitar licks, just a few notes from some popular rock songs, and playing those over and over. I got a bit bored of not even being able to play a complete song.

After my first online guitar lessons I was able to play a complete song within 2 days. I was not only learning rock songs, but I was taking blues guitar lessons, rockabilly guitar lessons, jazz guitar lessons, and even flamenco guitar lessons. I didn’t even know what most of this music was before joining Jamorama. My latest endeavor and passion has been my bluegrass guitar lessons. Bluegrass is a very technical, yet liberating guitar style. It is really fun to play to get a crowd on it’s feet, get a campfire going, or to just have a good ol’ time. The fingerstyle of bluegrass can be real intricate and I would suggest take the fingerstyle guitar lessons first, but don’t worry, you can learn any style guitar at your own pace.

Enjoy these YouTube videos to give you some inspiration into your Bluegrass Guitar Lessons endeavor:

Earl Scruggs And Lester Flatt – Cripple Creek

THIS ONE IS GREAT!!!!! Who is this Kid?

Bluegrass Guitar: Whiskey Before Breakfast

Bluegrass music is an offshoot of the country and western musical genre. As with country music, bluegrass has its foundation in the music of Ireland, Scotland and England. If bluegrass is centered on one area of the USA, it is Appalachia. The people are of Irish and Scottish descent and in their music instrumental virtuosity is not a poor relation of singing. In most forms of popular music the instruments back up the vocalist, but in bluegrass the vocals and the instruments are all just members of the team. In a bluegrass band everybody is expected to take a solo just as they do in a jazz band. The instruments associated with bluegrass music are acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle and bass.

The main thing to remember if you want to learn to play bluegrass scales is to learn some tunes. That is what music is made of. The scales are just the foundation of melodies and you need to be able to break out of the confinement of your scale as soon as possible. The other thing learning tunes is good for is developing right hand speed. As you can tell from listening to bluegrass music, speed flatpicking is essential.

If you are interested in learning bluegrass music and you would like to start by learning scales, start with the major scales in the open position. Do not bother with going up the neck of the guitar yet because learning your scales in the open position is crucial for playing bluegrass solos. Learn the scale in the key of G first, then C, D, F, A and E. Learn the keys one at a time so that you are comfortable with one before you go onto the next key. As with all musical learning, the more work you put into it at the beginning, the greater the rewards and the quicker your progress.

When you sit down each day to practice your scales, spend five or ten minutes going up and down the scale alternately. Then experiment a little. Try playing the scale by skipping some notes or playing the notes randomly. You need to become very familiar with the major scale because bluegrass solos rely on major keys. To get further into bluegrass guitar scales, find examples of the major pentatonic and the major diatonic scale.

Another basic scale that is important in bluegrass, blues, country and rock music is the minor pentatonic scale. It has five notes, should be learned in all positions on the guitar neck in all keys, and has been used for lead solos by every guitar player known to man. It is also popularly known as the blues scale. If you do not know much about modes, do an internet search to get some idea of the difference between a scale and a mode. If you have trouble understanding the theory, do not worry, just try playing.

The mixolydian mode is a good "scale" to practice on also:

E—————————————————————-0—–1—–3

B————————————————-0—–1—–3—————

G—————————————-0—-2——————————-

D————————0—–2—–3—————————————-

A——–0—–2—-3———————————————————

E–3————————————————————————–

To get more in-depth knowledge of bluegrass guitar scales, some great bluegrass guitar players to listen to are Vassar Clements, Doc Watson, Darol Anger, Clarence White, Norman Blake and Sam Bush.

Bill Monroe is one of a very small number of people to be credited with inventing an entire musical genre. This musical pioneer is responsible for creating the energetic, hard-driving style of country music known as bluegrass.

Born on a farm near Rosine, Kentucky, in 1911, William Smith Monroe spent much of his childhood learning to play guitar and mandolin. By age 12, he was picking and singing at country dances with family and friends. His uncle, country fiddler Pendleton Vandiver, was a huge musical influence in his early life. Monroe later immortalized his uncle in one of his most famous songs called "Uncle Pen". Monroe and his uncle are both buried in a small cemetery in Rosine, Kentucky.

Monroe founded the original bluegrass band in the late 1930’s and went on to refine, develop and perform his new brand of music for the next six decades. He was an outstanding mandolinist and wrote many superb instrumentals. He is also well known for crafting hauntingly beautiful song lyrics that are performed by bluegrass enthusiasts around the world. Over the years he wrote and recorded hundreds of compositions including "Blue Moon of Kentucky," which is an official state song of Kentucky. Monroe was a member of WSM’s famous Grand Ole Opry and performed there for more than half a century.

With his powerful tenor voice, Monroe defined what has now become known as "that high, lonesome sound". His band’s stark, powerful harmonies gave many of his songs a mournful tone that resonated well with the rugged rural people in his audiences.

For more than sixty years Monroe’s music has influenced countless musicians in many different genres. The energetic drive and rhythm of his band even played a significant role in the developmental history of rock and roll in the Fifties. Elvis Presley was a big fan of Bill Monroe and in 1954 Presley recorded a reworked version of "Blue Moon of Kentucky" on the B side of his first single for Sun Records.

Monroe’s music has already inspired several generations of bluegrass musicians and will, no doubt, continue to influence performers for innumerable generations to come.

Bluegrass music has often been seen as a male dominated genre, at least when it comes to band leaders and lead musicians. Bluegrass band, Hogzilla has an interesting name, because not only is it led by Hilary Hawke and Mimi Lavalley, who also play lead instruments banjo and guitar, but they do not match the description of a "Hogzilla" or large, wild, human hungry hog! This being said, a new EP, and refreshingly spirited performances give Hogzilla a step in front of other bluegrass bands.

The band is made up of banjo player, Hilary Hawke who has been described as a luminary in the Brooklyn country music scene. Hawke wrote the music on new EP Lost My Mind, being described as rhythmic, and catchy alt/country bluegrass. The tracks on the EP all lock into a steady groove, even the memphisy ballad Hymn which tells of a tearful long distance relationship. What stands out about Hogzilla is that they play a sort of music that really connects with the audience without always relying on cheesy lyrics or the predictable chord changes that you can expect from the normal aspiring original band. The band has songs about the changes and trials of living in NYC in songs Gentrification of D.U.M.B.O, and L.I.C. With tight harmonies, solid rhythm, a good punch of attitude, and girls that really play their instruments. The band is comprised of guitar, banjo, upright bass and snare drum. Members include Hilary Hawke-banjo, Mimi Lavalley-guitar, Mike Brown-upright bass, and Joe Humel-drums.

New EP Lost My Mind:

Tracks:

1. Don’t Let me Be

2. Take that Ride

3. Hymn

4. Lost My Mind

5. Gentification of D.U.M.B.O

Their new EP Lost my Mind can be found on cd and at any one of their shows. Recently featured on Soundcheck WNYC, expect to hear more than a little squeal from Hogzilla!