New Lessons and Tunes for March 2025
Peghead Nation instructors have new lessons, techniques, and tunes to keep your musical journey on track!
Peghead Nation instructors have released hours of new instruction in their courses, and here are the tunes and lessons we’ve just published for March 2025. Join us in any course and get your first month free. Just use promo code Learn25 at checkout!
GUITAR COURSES
Contemporary Flatpicking Guitar with Grant Gordy
E.M.D. The E minor instrumental “E.M.D.” is one of David Grisman’s classic tunes. It’s a simple melody but the chords make it a great jam tune. Grant shows you the melody and gives you ideas for improvising on and voicing the chord progression.
Irish Flatpicking Guitar with Flynn Cohen
The Rainy Day: This version of the A Dorian reel “The Rainy Day” is a transcription of the way guitarist Paul Brady played it on the recording Molloy/Brady/Peoples. Brady played it in DADEAE tuning and that’s how Flynn shows it to you here.
Western Swing Guitar with Matt Munisteri
“Buffalo Gals” Chord-Melody Style: “Buffalo Gals” has been recorded by jazz, folk, bluegrass, western swing, and pop artists. Matt shows you how to play the melody in a chord-melody style that uses familiar triad shapes played on the top three strings.
MANDOLIN COURSES
Intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin with Sharon Gilchrist
I’ll Fly Away: “I’ll Fly Away” is a popular gospel and folk song. In this lesson you’ll learn to play a solo in the key of D in the lower octave using a lot of double stops for a rich, full sound. Sharon shows you how to play both the verse and chorus.
Weekly Mandolin Workout with Ethan Setiawan
Working with a Metronome: In this series of workouts, Ethan gives you advice on working with a metronome, with exercises using the fiddle tune “East Tennessee Blues,” although you can use any tune with a lot of eighth notes.
Swing and Jazz Mandolin with Joe K. Walsh
Ain’t Misbehavin’: “Ain’t Misbehavin’” is a jazz classic from the great, early jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller. You’ll learn the melody and chord progression in the key of C and some solo excerpts from jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong.
Monroe-Style Mandolin with Mike Compton
I Was Left on the Street: “I Was Left on the Street” features a classic blues intro and half solo in the key of G. Played primarily with downstrokes, the solo includes flatted and natural note combinations, arpeggiated lines, and short chromatic passages.
Gypsy Jazz Mandolin Essentials with Aaron Weinstein
Just Friends: “Just Friends” was a popular song in the early 1930s and it became a jazz standard after recordings by Charlie Parker and Sarah Vaughan in 1949. You’ll learn it in the key of F, where it’s commonly played.
Old-Time Mandolin with John Reischman
Laughing Boy: John learned the key-of-A fiddle tune “Laughing Boy” from Greg Spatz, the fiddler in John’s band the Jaybirds, whose version is similar to Kenny Baker’s version.
The Advancing Mandolinist with Joe K. Walsh
Bluegrass Part Three: The Tim O’Brien instrumental “Bluegrass Part Three” is in the key of B, and the melody has a lot of repeated notes in a way that’s unusual for bluegrass mandolin. The closed position fingerings in B can be used in other keys.
Chord Melody Mandolin with Aaron Weinstein
“Misty” Etude: Aaron’s etude on the jazz ballad “Misty” is in the key of Eb, but it uses chord shapes and voicings that you’ve been using throughout this course.
Octave Mandolin with Joe K. Walsh
Horses of Dorrigo: “Horses of Dorrigo” was written by mandolinist John Reischman for the octave mandolin. It’s a two-part tune but has a cool intro/vamp where John plays a syncopated groove.
FIDDLE COURSES
Folk and Bluegrass Songs with Lauren Rioux
Been All Around This World “Been All Around This World” is an old American folk song with many variations and titles, including “Diggin’ On a New Railroad” and “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me.” You’ll learn it in the keys of A, C, G, and the new key of B.
Old-Time Fiddle with Bruce Molsky
Wild Rose of the Mountain: “Wild Rose of the Mountain” comes from a wonderful album of the same name by the lyrical Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley, It’s a crooked tune in the key of A, with some nice long, drawn-out notes at the ends of phrases.
PLAY-ALONG RHYTHM TRACKS – Available to all subscribers. Guitar accompaniment video, downloadable audio, and chord charts for popular bluegrass, old-time, and roots tunes and songs.
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