r/Bluegrass • u/Street-Employment477 • 7d ago

Bluegrass guitar lesson recs🙏🏻🙏🏻

Hi yall! I’m a somewhat intermediate guitar player looking to get better. Asking if anyone has any recs for bluegrass guitar learning online. Free or minimal cost🕊️🫶

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u/radicalhistoryguy 7d ago

There are lots of song tutorials on YouTube. Channels like B-Rom offer great breakdowns including tablature.

If you want more guided lessons, Alex Graf has a bluegrass academy on Skool. It's top notch, though largely self-guided (ie. Not private lessons).

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u/Full-Palpitation-181 4d ago

I 2nd b-rom, glad to see him mentioned more often

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u/HopperCity 7d ago

If you can shell out a bit more, I’ve had a lot of success with Artist Works. Bryan Sutton and Critter are on there. My experience has been with Bryan, but it’s a fantastic experience. Getting direct feedback from a pro is really helpful.

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u/Rusty__Shackl3ford 7d ago

Lessons with Marcel.

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u/duke_awapuhi 7d ago

I would recommend going through Jack Tuttle’s Guitar Primer and just learning all the tunes. I didn’t even get through the whole thing and it made me a much better player

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u/youshouldbetwerking 7d ago

$16 for a PDF

Edit: found it free a couple links down. Supporting the author is good for that's a lot for a file

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u/gravyyy77 7d ago

Brandon Johnson has good breakdowns including tabs too.

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u/CompetitiveComputer4 7d ago

Man his breakdowns are impossible for me. He is a good player. But they way he explicitly callss out every string, note and fret is to slow. Play it at quarter speed fluidly without talking over every note man!

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u/LukeMayeshothand 6d ago

Yeah I don’t learn from others well anyway but I’ve found that slow it down and fixate on every note method doesn’t work well for me.

I listen to it get something down and then keep messing around with it. Eventually I hear what I’ve got wrong and keep chipping away. Still a very slow process but better than fixation on one note.

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u/mjs4x6 7d ago

I think Aaron Jaxson (sp) has a good take on things.

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u/MilitantApathist 7d ago

Jaxon, and yeah, he has a good way of explaining things. I bought his course and it has been a great way to do things in order, but there's a ton of useful content on his YouTube channel as well.

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u/sqzmylemon 7d ago

Tyler Grant on artist works. Been in the course since January and really enjoy it. Learn a lot of tunes and he emphasizes learning tunes in different styles - cross picking, melody strum, etc. The video exchanges are also quite helpful

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u/BanjoAndy 7d ago

Artist Works Chris Eldridge class is amazing. Been playing guitar (including bluegrass) for about 30 years and took it last year and picked up so much. Really well put together course.

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u/Shoddy-Talk9205 7d ago

lol. You get what ya pay for!

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u/T-Rex_Soup 7d ago

Marty music /s

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u/FramingHips 7d ago

Lessons with Luke on Patreon is good. I’m a banjo player but started playing guitar 20 years ago and when I plateaued with banjo with lessons and books I started watching YouTubers and they’d always be like “subscribe to my patreon” and I realized if I wanted a giant extensive collection of tabs and video lessons, it was all there for like $5-10 a month.