Bill Monroe’s December 31, 1954 recording featured three fiddle-oriented instrumentals: “Wheel Hoss,” “Cheyenne,” and “Roanoke,” with Charlie Cline and Bobby Hicks on fiddles. All three tunes are bluegrass jam session favorites, with “Wheel Hoss” possibly the most popular. Bill played the melody “Wheel Hoss” in a few different ways, making slight variations each time. You’ll learn the way he played it on the recording in this lesson, starting with the A part, which Bill plays three times, instead of the standard four times.