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07/24/26
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Mastering Bluegrass Flatpicking (JamPlay)
Build Speed, Precision, and Style with a Flatpicking Champion
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About this course
Ready to elevate your bluegrass flatpicking to professional levels? Join National Flatpicking Champion Tyler Grant for this dynamic and in-depth course that takes your technique, tone, and soloing vocabulary to new heights. A perfect follow-up to his Bluegrass Flatpicking Method, this masterclass series dives deeper into iconic artist styles, advanced crosspicking, signature licks, and classic tunes.
With over 55 hands-on video lessons, you’ll explore real-world applications of major scale workouts, ear training, speed drills, and artist-inspired interpretations of bluegrass standards—including Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Clarence White, Dan Crary, and more. Each lesson includes guided breakdowns and focused practice sessions to lock in your skills.
You’ll learn how to craft guitar breaks in the styles of the greats, develop both flatpicking and crosspicking techniques, and gain the fretboard fluency needed to play confidently in multiple keys. Tyler also teaches you how to train your ear, improvise with authentic bluegrass vocabulary, and incorporate your own voice into timeless standards.
Whether you're aiming to rip through “Paddy on the Turnpike,” lay back into “Unclouded Day,” or blaze through “Old Joe Clark,” Tyler helps you master the mechanics while staying true to the spirit of the genre.
This course is ideal for intermediate to advanced players looking to sharpen their chops and develop a deep, stylistic understanding of bluegrass flatpicking.
Let’s pick it up a notch—and pick it clean.
With over 55 hands-on video lessons, you’ll explore real-world applications of major scale workouts, ear training, speed drills, and artist-inspired interpretations of bluegrass standards—including Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Clarence White, Dan Crary, and more. Each lesson includes guided breakdowns and focused practice sessions to lock in your skills.
You’ll learn how to craft guitar breaks in the styles of the greats, develop both flatpicking and crosspicking techniques, and gain the fretboard fluency needed to play confidently in multiple keys. Tyler also teaches you how to train your ear, improvise with authentic bluegrass vocabulary, and incorporate your own voice into timeless standards.
Whether you're aiming to rip through “Paddy on the Turnpike,” lay back into “Unclouded Day,” or blaze through “Old Joe Clark,” Tyler helps you master the mechanics while staying true to the spirit of the genre.
This course is ideal for intermediate to advanced players looking to sharpen their chops and develop a deep, stylistic understanding of bluegrass flatpicking.
Let’s pick it up a notch—and pick it clean.
What you'll learn
- Navigate position shifts smoothly while maintaining tempo
- Navigate position shifts between first and second position
- Play a complete fiddle tune with first and second endings at multiple tempos
- Execute three-note sequences ascending and descending
- Play interval sequences in thirds
Release date: 01/27/2020 • 18h 02m runtime
Sample lessons
Intro to Crosspicking
Lesson
“John Henry” in the Flatpicking Style of Don Reno
Lesson
Guitar Break - Wreck Of the Old 97 - Style of Doc Watson
Lesson
Guitar Break - Old Folks At Home - Style of Tony Rice
Lesson
What's included
55 lessons • 52 charts • 27 Jam Tracks
Series Introduction
Tyler gives you a rundown of what you can expect in this advanced bluegrass course.
C Major Scale Workout & Tricks
The C major scale is a staple of Bluegrass music. Lean the scale in and out with the exercizes and tricks that Tyler teaches you in this course.
C Major Scale Workout & Tricks
The C major scale is a staple of Bluegrass music. Lean the scale in and out with the exercizes and tricks that Tyler teaches you in this course.
C Major Songs And Tunes by Ear
Bluegrass is a folk tradition, meaning songs usually get passed on by ear. In this lesson, Tyler teaches you methods to learn songs and recognize chords by ear.
“Unclouded Day” in the Melody/Strum Style of Maybelle Carter
Further your bluegrass vocabulary by learning this classic C Major song in the style of Maybelle Carter.
“Unclouded Day” in the Melody/Strum Style of Maybelle Carter
Further your bluegrass vocabulary by learning this classic C Major song in the style of Maybelle Carter.
Intro to Crosspicking
Crosspicking is an advanced, harp like style of playing that is key to developing a well-rounded bluegrass style. Tyler takes you deep in to crosspicking with several exercises aimed at building your chops.
+ 48 more lessons
Reviews
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philip_m
Verified buyer
02/22/26
amazing
Tyler is a great teacher, offering not only bite sized chunks that are easy to digest, but explaining the thinking behind every lesson, starting with a simplified overview, typically the melody then progressively adding complexity. The guided practice sessions are a treat as well, easy to follow and play along as many times as you need to bring everything up to speed
lcmcc
12/17/25
Loving this course! Please ignore earlier comment
This is an excellent course! It's taught in such a way that it is easy to follow along even without the tab-sync functionality. Tyler's teaching is superb, and the material taught is fun. Thanks
lcmac
11/21/25
Great Instruction yet again from Tyler Grant. But this course is *not* Tab-Sync enabled. Just fyi
I've worked through Tyler's "Bluegrass Rhythym Survival Guide" and really enjoyed the course. He's a great teacher and the practice videos were super helpful. Even more so with the Tab-Sync functionality which helped me follow along in the tablature without needing to manage a PDF. The material presented in this course is great too. But, I was bummed to discover that it is not Tab-Sync enabled. I mistakenly thought that the "Jam-Play" descriptor was synonymous with Tab-Sync enabled. It's not. Still a great course though.
philb
Verified buyer
05/24/25
Mastering Bluegrass Flatpicking
Tyler Grant is such a fine Bluegrass Flatpicking Guitar Player, I have purchased two of Tyler’s courses, Bluegrass Flatpicking Method along with the follow-up course Mastering Bluegrass Flatpicking, this is highly recommended for those new to Bluegrass Flatpicking, even if you’ve been playing guitar all your life. I’m loving being bitten by the Bluegrass Flatpicking bug, yee hah such a buzz and lots of fun, it’s one of those: It’s so simple it’s hard things, I’ve missed out on many years of playing open and first position which Bluegrass mainly focuses on, if you want to learn Bluegrass, get both Tyler Grant Bluegrass Flatpicking Jam Play courses from TrueFire .
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