New Course! Creating Bluegrass Banjo Solos with Bill Evans

Learn a systematic way to create your own unique solos to classic bluegrass tunes and songs.

By: Dan Gabel

April 1, 2026

We are happy to announce our latest course, Creating Bluegrass Banjo Solos with Bill Evans, is now available for a monthly or annual subscription! Use promo code BillLand to get your first month free.

Learn a step-by-step process for building your own great bluegrass banjo solos. Starting with the fundamentals of finding melodies on the fingerboard, Bill Evans shows you how to combine basic banjo chord shapes and rolls with licks, techniques, and patterns to create your own unique solos that will give your playing that authentic bluegrass sound. We’ll add new lessons to the course every month!

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Creating Bluegrass Banjo Solos addresses a challenge many banjo players face: transitioning from learning tune arrangements with tablature to creating their own unique banjo solos. The course follows a systematic approach of learning chord progressions to common bluegrass tunes, identifying their basic melodies, and selecting appropriate roll patterns to bring out the melody and craft unique solos. With roll patterns you likely already know, like the forward roll, Foggy Mountain Breakdown roll, alternating thumb roll, and others, Bill guides you through the process of creating solos, also incorporating bluegrass licks and patterns as building blocks. Lessons cover multiple techniques for both picking and fretting hands, including rolls, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and more, always with an emphasis on developing individual creativity and learning to think independently about solo construction. If you’re looking for all the tools you need to build solid bluegrass banjo solos, this course is for you!

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Bill Evans is the 2022 recipient of the coveted Steve Martin Banjo Prize, a 2024 inductee in the American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame, and an internationally recognized five-string banjo life force. He brings a deep knowledge, intense virtuosity, and contagious passion to all things banjo.

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Bill also teaches Beginning Banjo, Bluegrass Banjo, Earl Scruggs: A Player’s Guide, Melodic and Single String Banjo, and The Banjo Style of J.D. Crowe courses on Peghead Nation.