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Summary: Mandolin is an instrument that could fit in almost any genre of music including bluegrass. Learn a bit about bluegrass music and how a mandolin can sound great in it from from a mandolin expert in this video.
Levin Schwartz lives in Northampton, MA where he spends his days playing music with his band 'The Amity Front' and teaching private guitar and mandolin lessons at The Fretted...read more
"So we're going to look at song now called the bluegrass stomp. And this uses a lot of blue notes, or blue stones that you will use in a song like this. So. That's the first line. That happens over the one chord. OK, so I went a little further then I wanted to go, but the first line was. And the second line. That's a nice little blues tone using that A string right there."
eHow Article: Bluegrass Stomp Mandolin Tips