The folks at bluegrasscollege.org have put together a video sample from their latest online lesson. The song is Blue Night, sung by Tim O’Brien, with instrumental solos taught by Bill Evans (banjo), Rob Ickes (resonator guitar), Tyler Grant (guitar), Matt Flinner (mandolin), Mark Schatz (bass) and Megan Lynch (fiddle).

The sample shows brief segments from the various instruments, and the complete lesson contains two breaks each, with both audio and video at slow speeds for each instrument.

Individual lessons can be purchased and accessed online for $9.95, or you can become a subscriber for $69.95 annually, which entitles you to ten lessons in a year’s time.

You can find more details – and a free sample lesson – at bluegrasscollege.org.

BluegrassCollege.org is now offering a series of free playing tips from their prestigious faculty, updated daily on the front page of their web site.

First up are two posts on warm-up tips for flatpickers from Tyler Grant and one for mandolinists from Matt Flinner. Next week tips are coming from Luke Bulla on fiddle, and Brad Talley on resonator guitar.

BluegrassCollege.org is a subscription-based online database of bluegrass music instruction. Members can join for less than $10 monthly, or purchase individual video lessons for a flat fee. Instructors include top bluegrass artists like Rob Ickes, Ron Stewart, Chris Eldridge, Jesse Cobb and many others.

Our friends at BluegrassCollege.org are ringing in the New Year with the launch of their free Bluegrass College Fakebook.

The Fakebook currently consists of tabs (notation for the fiddle) for 10 bluegrass instrumentals. The tabs are available for all the bluegrass instruments including: bass, guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and dobro. The dobro page only contains 9 tabs not 10.

These free tabs are presented in high resolution pdf format, available for download or print. The proprietors of BluegrassCollege.org say they intend to add an additional 10 tabs to the Fakebook every couple of months.

If you are learning to play, this is great opportunity to learn some new tunes. If you are involved in a group of learners, it’s even better. You could all learn the same tunes together and be able to practice playing them together.

And when you’re ready for some more in-depth learning, be sure to check out the premium lessons offered by BluegrassCollege.org. The lessons include audio and video files as well as tab, and are taught by such bluegrass greats as The Infamous Stringdusters, members of Three Ring Circle and Blue Highway, Ron Stewart, Matt Flinner, Casey Dreissen, Luke Bulla, Tyler Grant, Mark Schatz, Missy Raines and many more.

UKBluegrass.com recently posted an interview with fiddle player, and instructor, Brian Wicklund. The interview centers around the instructional website BluegrassCollege.org. Brian was one of the founders of the site and continues to teach fiddle lessons online as one of the site’s main instructors.

We’ve told you about BluegrassCollege.org before, but for those who are new here, let me explain. The site offers online instruction on all the major bluegrass instruments, including: fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, dobro, and bass.

Each lesson includes notes and tips along with tab/notation in pdf format, the lesson in video (Quicktime) format at more than one skill level, and mp3 files of practice tracks at varying tempos.

If you want to know more, read the interview over at UKBluegrass.com and then visit BluegrassCollege.org.