Video clips from the AcuTab Adam Steffey mandolin DVD. This new 2 DVD release from AcuTab contains 4 hours and 20 minutes of insight, instruction, tunes, tips and technique from the 5 time IBMA award-winning picker.
Adam has performed and recorded with some of the most prestigious groups in bluegrass music, including Lonesome River Band, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Mountain Heart and (currently) The Dan Tyminski Band.
On Disc 1, Adam goes over several topics, including chop rhythm, right hand attack, note spacing, tone/volume, practicing and building speed - with demonstrations of each in turn. He then spends roughly 45 minutes covering how you can build a bluegrass-style solo based on the basic melody of a song. Using 3 common jam tunes, Adam shows how to start with the simple melody and build a solo - in several keys.
Disc 2 has Adam teaching his solos for 7 tunes he has recorded. You'll learn Everytime You Say Goodbye, Liza Jane, No Place To Hide, #6 Barn Dance, Cluck Old Hen, East Tennessee Blues and Daybreak In Dixie. Each song is played with a band before Adam breaks it down lick by lick.They are each then shown (fast and slow) in a split screen orientation.
More details at http://www.acutab.com/artists/steffey/steffey.html
Wow, I'd been waiting for Mr. Steffey to show up on youtube. My favorite mandolin player. I stopped listening to Alison when he left.
padseenoodle 3 years ago 3
I look at him as the best mandolin player today! Adam ROCKS!
Fiddleman200616 3 years ago 3