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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Understanding the Fretboard GUITAR Beginning Guitar Accompany Yourself on the Guitar Altered Tunings for Guitar Bass Guitar Beyond Beginning Guitar Bottleneck Blues Brazilian Guitar & Bossa Nova Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar English Fingerstyle Guitar Flatpickin’ the Old-Time Tunes Simple Guitar Setup & Adjustment for Performing FIDDLE Language of Fiddle Styles Old-Time Fiddle BANJO Beginning Clawhammer Banjo Dock Boggs & Clawhammer Banjo w/M Grosswendt Old-Time Banjo II Singing with the Banjo MANDOLIN Slowest Mandolin Class Ever The World of Mandolin with Radim Zenkl UKULELE Beginning Ukulele Blues Ukulele BASS Bass Guitar WIND & FREE REED INSTRUMENTS Beginning Fujara & Koncovka Overtone Flutes Fujara & Koncovka Overtone Flutes II PIANO Beginning Piano BAND WORKSHOPS & JAMS Brazilian Rhythms Celtic Session Eastern European Music Juke Joint Blues Old-Time Jam & Dance Songs of Greenwich Village SINGING, SONGWRITING, THEORY Big Song Swap Chorus Songs & Sing-Alongs Creating Melody Harmony Singing in Early Country & Old-Time Traditions How to Use & Understand the Modes of Music Iceland & England - Harmony Singing in Two Languages from Two Traditions Just Enough Music Theory Rise Up Singing Songs of Social Justice Topical & Protest Songwriting PERCUSSION Brazilian Percussion Ensemble RECORDING How to Successfully Do a Recording Project ​​ ​	GUITAR Beginning Guitar Bluegrass Guitar I Bluegrass Guitar II Blues Guitar with Guy Davis Flatpicking the Old-Time Tunes Resonator Guitar/Dobro I Resonator Guitar/Dobro II FIDDLE Bluegrass Fiddle I Bluegrass Fiddle II A Little Fiddlin’, A Little Flat-Footin’ Old-Time Fiddle I Old-Time Fiddle II BANJO Bluegrass Banjo I Bluegrass Banjo II Old-Time Banjo with Rachel Eddy MANDOLIN Bluegrass Mandolin I Bluegrass Mandolin II Swing Mandolin UKULELE Beginning Ukulele Blues Ukulele BASS/CELLO Bluegrass Bass HARP Beginning Celtic Harp Simple Spiritual Songs for Folk Harp DULCIMERS: MOUNTAIN & HAMMERED​ Hammered Dulcimer with Ken Kolodner Mountain Dulcimer WIND & FREE REED INSTRUMENTS Beginning Blues Harmonica Beginning English Concertina Beginning Highland Bagpipe Blues Harmonica II Didgeridoo Native American Flute & Flute Playing Native American Flute Making ​BAND WORKSHOPS & JAMS Bluegrass Jam Bluegrass SLOW Jam Blues Guitar with Guy Davis Improvisation for All Instruments Jug Band/Skiffle Band Juke Joint Blues Old-Time Jam ​SINGING, SONGWRITING, THEORY Big Song Swap Bluegrass Harmony Singing Finding Common Ground Through Song How Can I Keep from Singing? Just Enough Music Theory Rise Up Singing Sheaves of Grain: 15 Seasonal Songs from Around the World Singing Harmony Songwriting with Others PERCUSSION Cajon Construction Cajon Playing Stumpf-Fiddle/Stomper-Doodle ​ ​​ ​	​GUITAR Beginning Guitar Beatles Fingerstyle Guitar Blues Electric Guitar Intermediate Slide Guitar: Slidin’ the Blues Irish Guitar Jazz Guitar Topics Jazz Mandolin & Jazz Guitar Piedmont Blues Guitar—Repertoire Piedmont Blues Guitar—Technique FIDDLE Beginning Fiddle Fiddle Tunes of Northern European  Scottish Fiddle BANJO Old-Time Banjo MANDOLIN Beginning Mandolin Irish Mandolin Jazz Mandolin & Jazz Guitar UKULELE Ukulele for Beginners BASS/CELLO Bass Tutorial AUTOHARP Autoharp ​HARP Celtic Tunes for Harp Harp Repertoire Jo’s Harp Favorites Scottish Marches Stunning Music for Harp from Around the World DULCIMERS: MOUNTAIN & HAMMERED​ The Amazing Dulcimer Band Beginning Hammered Dulcimer Beginning Mountain Dulcimer Hammered Dulcimer II Mountain Dulcimer II Seven Modes for Seven Dulcimers WIND & FREE REED INSTRUMENTS Beginning Tin Whistle Blues Harmonica  Irish Flute Irish Tin Whistle Melodica Native American Flute & Flute Playing Uilleann Pipes PIANO Blues Piano  Hodge Podge Piano BAND WORKSHOPS & JAMS Celtic Session Intro to Medieval Modes & Improvisation Juke Joint Blues Middle & Near Eastern Music Music of “The Band” Old-Time Jam Praise Songs of the Middle Ages School of Rock School of Rock (Prep) Scottish String Ensemble Swing Band & Swing Dance SINGING, SONGWRITING, THEORY African & Jamaican Songs America Singing Big Song Swap Creating Melody Gospel Music with Shelley Ensor How to Use & Understand the Modes Irish Song Just Enough Music Theory Look & Listen: The Beauty of the Blues Rise Up Singing Scottish Song Sheaves of Grain: 15 Seasonal Songs from Around the World Singing with Shelley Ensor Writing Songs with a Point ​PERCUSSION African Drumming Beginning Bodhran Bodhran Construction Frame Drum Riq Snare Drum NEW!