New Lessons for November 2022

New tunes, techniques, and exercises from Peghead Nation instructors!

By: Dan Gabel

November 10, 2022

Peghead Nation instructors have released hours of new instruction in their courses, and here are the tunes and lessons we’ve just published for November 2022. Join us in any course and get your first month free. Just use promo code Learn22 at checkout!

GUITAR COURSES

Alternate Tunings Fingerstyle Guitar with Doug Young

DADGAD in A: “Red-Haired Boy” Learn to play in the key of A in DADGAD, using the Celtic and bluegrass favorite “Red-Haired Boy,” which mostly uses the A Mixolydian scale.

Bluegrass Guitar Fingerboard Mastery with Stash Wyslouch

Harmonizing Melodies with Triads Stash shows you how to harmonize “In the Pines” with triads. He shows you the melody to “In the Pines” on the high E string and how to harmonize it with a triad on the GBE string set.

Maybelle Carter-Style Guitar with Cathy Fink – NEW COURSE!

Learn to play guitar like the legendary Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family, whose recordings are one of the backbones of the old-time country music and bluegrass repertoire and helped create the country music genre. Includes transcriptions of Maybelle’s thumb-lead style on classic songs.

Wildwood Flower The beautiful song “Wildwood Flower” is one of the most iconic pieces in the Carter Family. Maybelle’s playing on “Wildwood Flower” has influenced generations of guitarists, and every country and bluegrass guitar player plays it.

MANDOLIN COURSES

Bluegrass Mandolin Jam Favorites with Joe K. Walsh

Winder Slide The old-time fiddle tune “Winder Slide” is a beautiful, quirky melody in the key of D, with an extra measure at the end of the B part. Most people know it from fiddler Rayna Gellert’s version.

Monroe-Style Mandolin with Mike Compton

Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone Bill Monroe recorded the Wilma Lee Cooper song “Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone” in January 1959. His solo is short and is played out of B chop-chord position, with some of Monroe’s favorite phrases.

Old-Time Mandolin with John Reischman

Goin’ Up Caney The old-time fiddle tune “Goin’ Up Caney” comes from Bill Monroe, who learned it from his uncle Pendleton Vandiver. It’s in the key of G and the second part goes to the relative minor (E minor).

The Advancing Mandolinist with Joe K. Walsh

Greenwood John Reischman recorded his beautiful, mellow tune “Greenwood” on the album Up in the Woods. John uses a lot of slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs so it’s a great tune for working on those techniques.

Brazilian Choro Mandolin with Ian Coury – NEW COURSE!

Pedacinhos Do Céu The beautiful, slow choro “Pedacinhos Do Céu” (“Little Pieces from the Sky”) was written by Waldyr Azevedo, a very successful and important choro conductor, composer, mandolinist, and cavaquinho player.

Chord Melody Mandolin with Aaron Weinstein

For Dancers Only “For Dancers Only” is a well-known big-band tune that comes from Jimmie Lunceford. It’s a riff tune in the key of C and the melody works well with the standard chord voicings you’ve been using.

Octave Mandolin with Joe K. Walsh

Canyon Moonrise “Canyon Moonrise” is a beautiful waltz with unusual chord changes that was written by Joe’s teacher/mentor John McGann. Joe recorded it on the Darol Anger album E–And’A.

BANJO COURSES

Contemporary Bluegrass Banjo with Wes Corbett

Jerusalem Ridge The four-part fiddle tune “Jerusalem Ridge” is one of Bill Monroe’s most well-known original tunes. In this lesson you’ll learn a melodic-style arrangement of the tune played without a capo.

Old-Time Banjo with Bruce Molsky

Fiddle or a Dram This version of the traditional “Fiddler a Dram” (or as it was called by the announcer at the 1938 White Top Fiddle Convention, “Fiddle or a Dram”) was recorded by C.B. Wohlford.