String School
Learn to play guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, dobro, or ukulele from the best roots music instructors and players. Just $20 per month!
- Beginning Guitar
- Roots and Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar
- Fingerstyle Guitar
- Intermediate Flatpicking Guitar
- Blues Guitar
- Flatpicking Guitar
- Roots of Jazz Guitar
- Celtic Guitar
- Clawhammer Guitar NEW COURSE!
- Fingerstyle Blues Guitar
- Advanced Fingerstyle Workshop
- Weekly Guitar Workout
- Guitar Theory
DOBRO
UKULELE
- Beginning Mandolin
- Intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin
- The Advancing Mandolinist
- Bluegrass Mandolin Jam Favorites
- Monroe-Style Mandolin
- Irish Mandolin
- Melodic Mandolin Tunes
- Theory for Mandolin and Fiddle
INSTRUMENTS & GEAR
Aug 14, 2018
Former Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show guitarist Rik Elswit demonstrates a Huss and Dalton dreadnought that was a surprise gift from the band’s lead singer.
NEWS & EVENTS
Jul 03, 2018
Start taking lessons now with the roots music iconoclast. Danny Barnes reveals his systematic approach to the banjo, with one-of-a-kind insights on improvisation, tone, rhythm, and more.
PEGHEAD PRATTLE
Aug 07, 2018
Discover Canadian singer-songwriter Noah Zacharin, who's within six degrees of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Ralph Carney, and me.
PLAYLIST
Listen to some Peghead favorites on Peghead Nation's Spotify playlist, including some songs featured in this month's lessons.
FEATURED VIDEOS
Aug 04, 2018
Peghead Nation instructors John Reischman, Sharon Gilchrist, and Scott Nygaard play the Kenny Baker version of this traditional favorite.
PEGHEAD PARTNERS
Aug 14, 2018
Elderly Instruments owner Stan Werbin demonstrates a beautifully designed open-back banjo built in the 1890s.
Aug 10, 2018
The two flatpickers play the traditional tune “Gold Rush” on their Preston Thompson dreadnoughts, at Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville.