"Cookoo's Nest"

- All right.…This next section we're gonna learn…a whole bunch of tunes.…I can't emphasize enough…how important this is…to playing bluegrass.…Even though maybe you don't…play a lot of instrumentals…in your band that you play with,…bluegrass is primarily a vocal…style, but from these fiddle tunes,…these old Irish tunes that came…over to the Appalachian Mountains,…there exists all the melodic fragments…that we use in all the music…that we play.…

And it's just a beautiful way to…build your technique and develop…a body of licks as it were that…you then deconstruct and use…in different places, in either…a vocal tune or when you begin…to improvise over one song,…you might be pulling a fragment…out of another song.…So I will encourage or urge…you to learn these tunes…as close as you can to how…I'm playing them or if you're…learning off of some other…source, try to get as much nuance…as you can, whether it's exactly…how somebody's sliding into a note…or the exact inflection of where…they put the accents on the melodies.…

In the old days, we used to slow the LPs…