Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This video is an excellent way to start understanding, integrating, and exploring the modular Monroe Style Devices: Staggered Arpeggios, the Slidey Lick, and the Bouncy Lick. Using a simple melody like Worried Man Blues, which is basically the same as This Little Light of Mine, can be a wonderful way to open the door to the creative power of these improvising textures.
Learning how to switch and swap with the melody is the most important thing in this system so we don't get lost! Starting with simple forms to keep it easy for ourselves can be important.
This video is an excellent way to start understanding, integrating, and exploring the modular Monroe Style Devices: Staggered Arpeggios, the Slidey Lick, and the Bouncy Lick. Using a simple melody like Worried Man Blues, which is basically the same as This Little Light of Mine, can be a wonderful way to open the door to the creative power of these improvising textures.
Learning how to switch and swap with the melody is the most important thing in this system so we don't get lost! Starting with simple forms to keep it easy for ourselves can be important.
![Picking tele with Peter Rowan [bluegrass adjacent]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rU4ODihI0dc/mqdefault.jpg "Picking tele with Peter Rowan [bluegrass adjacent]
Picking tele with Peter Rowan [bluegrass adjacent]")
![Secrets of Speed [all levels mandolin lesson]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rcuMo7S1-78/mqdefault.jpg "Secrets of Speed [all levels mandolin lesson]
In this video supporting the monthly Noya Mountain Music Workshop we will explore various training techniques to help students gain more clarity about the technical aspects of developing precise mechanical control and power.
From structuring a reliable practice routine focusing on speed development, to learning how to streamline and optimize arrangements for efficiency at faster tempos, we will cover good ground as we gain a better understanding of the physical thresholds and healthy discipline it takes to graduate.
Were focusing on the folded scale single stroke and with iterations, playing one open strings as fast as possible, chromatic arpeggio, endurance training, and lastly an advanced training technique on a single string.
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![Jam Session Backup [Intermediate Level]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sF__D2PEUj4/mqdefault.jpg "Jam Session Backup [Intermediate Level]
After a little weekend recap talking about adventures playing with Wyatt Ellis at the Earl Scruggs Festival and opening up for Marty Stuart, we get right into the main lesson of finding good things to play behind a vocal on a couple of jam session standards, Blue Ridge Cabin Home and Your Love is Like a Flower.
Were combining double stops leaning on the dominant 7th to transition from the 1 chord to the 4 chord (G to C) then using the great Dean Webb lick to add some more notey color.
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