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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Reading Music Made Easier Understanding the Fretboard GUITAR Beginning Guitar Blues Guitar Repertoire Blues Guitar with Guy Davis Christmas Guitar Fingerstyle Guitar 1 Fingerstyle Guitar 2 Flatpicking Guitar 2 Jazz Guitar & Mando Jazz Guitar Topics - CANCELLED FIDDLE Beginning Fiddle Beginning Old-Time Fiddle Language of Fiddle Styles BANJO Banjo 2 Bluegrass Banjo 1 Old-Time Banjo  MANDOLIN Beginning Mandolin Jazz Guitar and Mandolin UKULELE Beginning Ukulele Blues Ukulele BASS Bass (Acoustic & Electric) HARP Intro to Celtic Harp Simple Spiritual Songs and Tunes for Folk Harp  DULCIMERS Beginning Hammered Dulcimer Beginning Mountain Dulcimer Hammered Dulcimer repertoire Mountain Dulcimer 2 Pan-Celtic Repertoire WIND & FREE REED INSTRUMENTS Beginning Highland Bagpipe Blues Harp 1 Blues Harp 2 Melodic Harmonica BAND WORKSHOPS & JAMS Blues Guitar with Guy Davis Celtic Session Juke Joint Klezmer Music Old-Time Jam Pan-Celtic Repertoire Rags and Stomps SINGING, SONGWRITING, THEORY Big Song Swap History of Appalachia through Story and Song Rise Up Singing Songs of Work and Freedom Songwriting: Fishing with the Muse Women and the Blues PERCUSSION African Drumming ​​ ​ ​	GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Just Enough Music Theory GUITAR Beginning Guitar Beyond Beginning Guitar Flatpicking the Old-Time Tunes Guitar with Harvey Reid Guitar with Vladimir Merta Song Train FIDDLE Beginning Fiddle Celtic Fiddle Fiddlestyles with Joyce Andersen Old-Time Fiddle & Mandolin with Danny Knicely BANJO Old-Time Banjo 2 MANDOLIN Old-Time Mandolin & Fiddle with Danny Knicely UKULELE Ukulele - Easy as 1-2-3 BASS/CELLO Bass Tutorial Cello Tutorial Autoharp Introduction to Autoharp ​ HARP Harp Lab Manx Music - Harp  Tunes from the Celtic Isle of Man Scottish Light Music for Harp Simply Scottish Harp DULCIMERS​ Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer for Teachers & New Players Beginning Mountain Dulcimer Chords on Mountain Dulcimer Hammered Dulcimer Hawaiian Music with a Hawaiian Musician Musical History of the Mountain Dulcimer Playing the Mountain Dulcimer with an Old-Time String Band WIND & FREE REED INSTRUMENTS Beginning Blues Harmonica Beginning English Concertina Beginning Fujara and Koncovka Overtone Flutes Fujara and Koncovka Overtone Flutes 2 Native American Flute & Flute Playing Native American Flute Making PIANO Beginning Piano ​BAND WORKSHOPS & JAMS Celtic Session Hawaiian Music with a Hawaiian Musician Instrumental Harmony Jug Band/Skiffle Band Juke Joint Blues Old-Time Jam Singing with Your Instrument Song Train ​SINGING, SONGWRITING, THEORY African & Jamaican Songs Big Song Swap Folk Harmony Singing & Arrangement Great American Songbook How Can I Keep from Singing? The Power of Music: Vladimir Merta Rise Up Singing Singing with Tommy Sands Singing with Your Instrument A Slvaonic Approach to Jewish Music Song Train Songwriting for Beginners Songwriting: Protests & Parodies PERCUSSION Bodhran for Beginners - No Drum Needed ​	​GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Just Enough Music Theory ​ GUITAR Beginning Guitar Beginning Bluegrass  Guitar Bluegrass Guitar 2 Blues Electric Guitar Brazilian Guitar & Song Intermediate Slide Guitar Southwest Guitar Styles FIDDLE Bluegrass FIddle 1 Bluegrass Fiddle 2 Old-Time Fiddle with Ken Kolodner Swedish Fiddle BANJO Bluegrass Banjo 1 Bluegrass Banjo 2 Old-Time Banjo 1 Old-Time Banjo 2 MANDOLIN Bluegrass Mandolin with Tim O'Brien Mandolin with CHris Luquette UKULELE Beginning Ukulele Beyond Beginning Ukulele Ukulele Orchestra BASS/CELLO Bass Tutorial Cello Tutorial ​HARP Introduction to Paraguayan Music Introduction to Paraguayan Romantic Music Improvising on Harp with Latin American Rhythms DULCIMERS​ Hammered Dulcimer with Ken Kolodner Pan-Celtic Repertoire ​ WIND & FREE REED INSTRUMENTS Beginning Tin Whistle Blues Harmonica  Melodica Native American Flute & Flute Playing PIANO Blues Piano  Hodge Podge Piano BAND WORKSHOPS & JAMS Bluegrass Jam Bluegrass Masterclass Bluegrass Slow Jam Juke Joint Blues Latin Jam Latin-grass Ensemble Music of “The Band” Old-Time Jam Pan-Celtic Repertoire School of Rock School of Rock (Prep) ​ SINGING, SONGWRITING, THEORY Big Song Swap Bluegrass Singing with Tim O'Brien Co-Writing Songs Freedom Sings & Dances Khoomei Masterclass Look & Listen: The Beauty of the Blues Rise Up Singing Scottish Song Singing for Hope and Healing Singing with Shelley Ensor Songs of Our Father Songs of Pete Seeger Songwriting 101 ​Songwriting Across the Curriculum Writing Songs with a Point ​PERCUSSION Bodhran for Beginners - No Drum Needed Brazilian Percussion Ensemble Cuban Carnavale Drum & Song Snare Drum World Percussion Drum Choir