Bluegrass Mandolin: Beginning to Advanced with Sharon Gilchrist | New Course!

Learn bluegrass mandolin technique and tunes with this curated collection of lessons from our acclaimed instructor.

By: Dan Gabel

January 18, 2026

We are happy to announce a new course collection, Bluegrass Mandolin: Beginning to Advanced with Sharon Gilchrist, now available for a monthly or annual subscription! Use promo code SharonLand to get your first month free.

Bluegrass Mandolin: Beginning to Advanced with Sharon Gilchrist brings together 60 of the most essential lessons from Sharon’s popular Peghead Nation courses into one progressive, organized path to learning bluegrass. You’ll start with fundamental mandolin technique and classic bluegrass tunes, and move into intermediate bluegrass songs, Monroe-style rhythm, fretboard theory, advanced solos from popular bluegrass players, and much more. With lessons curated from Sharon’s Beginning Mandolin, Intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin, and Bluegrass Mandolin Fingerboard Method courses on Peghead Nation, Bluegrass Mandolin: Beginning to Advanced gives mandolin players a fun, organized way to develop bluegrass mandolintechnique and repertoire, no matter what level of player you are.

Subscribe to Bluegrass Mandolin: Beginning to Advanced with Sharon Gilchrist

This course includes extensive right- and left-hand technique lessons, more than 40 classic bluegrass tunes and songs, which Sharon teaches phrase-by-phrase, with play-along tracks so you can practice along with her and get ready for those bluegrass jams! You’ll get notation and tab for all lessons, high-quality video with multiple camera angles so you can see close-ups of both hands in action, and audio MP3s of the tunes that you learn. And when you’re ready for more, you can switch courses to any of Sharon’s (or other Peghead instructors’) courses to dive deeper and continue your learning.

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Sharon Gilchrist began touring the national bluegrass circuit in her home state of Texas for several years before earning a BA in Mandolin Performance at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. For two decades, Sharon has performed with many of the groundbreaking legends in bluegrass and new acoustic music including The Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet, Scott Nygaard and John Reischman in The Harmonic Tone Revealers, Darol Anger, Tony Trischka, The CA Bluegrass Reunion Band, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Uncle Earl and many others. She is also a respected and influential music educator offering private mandolin instruction, multiple online mandolin courses at Peghead Nation (see below) as well as teaching at music camps internationally. From 2004 – 2012, Sharon taught mandolin at the Santa Fe University of Art & Design. In 2024, Sharon joined the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project as a featured artist and co-producer on their Vol 2. album. The Vol. 2 album will be released in early 2025. Sharon lives in Nashville, TN and currently performs with the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project Trio.

Bluegrass Mandolin: Beginning to Advanced with Sharon Gilchrist is a great way to supercharge your bluegrass playing. Join us today, and use promo code SharonLand to get your first month free.

Check out Sharon’s other courses on Peghead Nation – Beginning Mandolin, Intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin, Bluegrass Mandolin Fingerboard Method, Melodic Embellishment, Creative Mandolin Backup