Jim Mills - A Winning Banjo Style

Selected clips from the AcuTab Jim Mills banjo instruction DVD. These clips show Jim demonstrating a 3rd string choke on How Great Thou Art, the opening lick for Bear Tracks and Ground Hog.

On the full DVD, Jim teaches seven tunes from his solo projects (How Great Thou Art, Sledd Ridin', Bear Tracks, Take The D Train, John Henry Blues, Rebecca and Ground Hog) plus two from Team Flathead (Cotton Eyed Joe and Reuben), and three others he recorded with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder (Shady Grove, Pig In A Pen and Black Eyed Susie).

More details at http://www.acutab.com/artists/mills/millsdvd.html

Category:

Music

Tags:

• banjo
• bluegrass
• pre
• war
• huber
• jim
• mills

[warwick487]

i wish i was cool enough to play banjo

[deving68]

Hes pretty damn good

[bluegrassaro]

@bigmrclean INCREDIBLE is the right word... :D

[bigmrclean]

Man that huber sounds good.

[vasdenfoot]

looks like i will be getting this lesson! GREAT!

[martinpleass]

I think Jim Mills and Bill Evans are becoming my favourite.

[dooley417]

@jackcrees

It's Ground Hog

[jackcrees]

Anyone know what the third part of this video is? What song is that?

[katrinaburgoyne]

Awesome work Acutab

Great video. :)

Much love Kat

[kevinleverne]

I agree with you about his take on Ground Hog. Jim and Earl have such good taste, timing and tone, that they even make the slower and simpler songs sound like gold. Kind of reminds me of Earls break on "no mother or dad". Slower picken but ever note gets the attention it deserves.

[ElKlido]

Am I hearing a little too much Doc Watson here? It's very good. Don't get me wrong. The problem with Doc Watson is that he does not (as every other musician in the world does) break his rhythm pattern. If you're not as talented as Doc Watson, you will bore your audience half to death with the tediousness of that unrelenting 2/4 (or is it 4/4?) beat. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed this clip. It's a great sound.