Nashville Number System Lesson 3 – Advanced Fills & “The Money Lick”



In this lesson, Megan Lynch Chowning teaches advanced fiddle fills using The Nashville Number System. She also teaches “The Money Lick” – that great sequence of notes you should DEFINITELY know!! While Megan teaches this series of lessons from a bluegrass standpoint, these concepts also apply to country, gospel, and other American styles of music. We hope you enjoy this excerpt of the course.


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17 Comments

  1. Super fun lesson! Thanks Megan!!

  2. Thank you for finally helping me remember what the heck the g chord looks like. I’ll never forget again

  3. I’ve always been prejudiced against people that hit G chords with their middle finger fretting the low string. It’s seems less resourceful than using the ring finger instead and using the pinky. Until I noticed often higher caliber guitarist often fret both the bottom strings with pinky or ring.

  4. The A/B function for looping a segment of the video, is a good feature. Forced repetition…Forced repetition…Forced repetition……

    • Awesome, Joe. Yep – I wish I had something like an A/B loop when I was learning tunes…the best the cool kids could manage in those days was a Marantz recorder with a half speed (and octave lower) function. It’s almost too easy now! Except for the whole no fret and bow thing…

      C

  5. How do I access the A/B loop?

    • Hi, Stella.

      Once you press play on the video player at the top of the page, you can see a little icon labled “AB” in the lower right hand corner of the player. Click on that, and it brings up the slides in/out bar for the AB loop. As long as your play cursor is between the two points you set, the video will loop back to the first point when it reaches the second. Hope that helps!

  6. Casey and Megan,
    I’ve been admiring your site for several years. Casey you’re an awesome fiddle player and teacher. So smooth and precise. And the quality of the site is second to none. Watched all of the free content, planning to one day sign up. Well, after 5 years of playing and practicing most every day, I felt I was ready (I’m old and learn slowly).

    Megan, I must tell you, before I signed up on fiddlevideo, I stumbled across one of your YouTube lessons and was hooked on your teaching style and content. In that lesson, you mentioned that you were going to be teaching on the fiddlevideo site. I knew then it was time to join. Megan, you are a hoot. At times I find myself chuckling at some of your comments. You know how to make it fun! You are a valuable asset to the sight.

    Thanks for the amazing site – quality instruction and attention to detail. I’ve been digging around on YouTube for 5 years and have found many good violin/fiddle teachers, but without a doubt your site is on another level from any I’ve seen. I’m very excited to explore, learn, and advance.

  7. Good post Michael Coe. I came into fiddlevideo much like you. It began with those free videos but as free as they were they weren’t making me into a fiddle player but then Ms Megan had a well why not lets just jump in just join fiddlevideo and see what happens because Ms Megan and the whole staff at fiddlevideo are here to help anyone to become a fiddle playet and the whole staff of fiddlevideo is always sitting by and ready to go knee to knee with anybody who wants to learn to fiddle. So with just 1 month in I have made more progress than with any Craig Duncan fiddle book which I still dearly love and am grateful for Craig Duncan’s authorship but going knee to knee with these fiddle greats who staff fiddlevideo finally I am getting even my Craig Duncan fiddle books to finally begin to sound like the notes I never could really read right. Thank you Ms Megan. And please keep posting Michael Coe – david

  8. Thank you for sharing your talents. Love your teaching style. Perfect for me. You’re a dear, or golden as they say. Cheers

  9. VIDEO scrolls itself way down , cannot select upper choice ….? Nasty ..

  10. What do you do about a 6 minor chord? The 6 minor comes up quite a bit at jams and such. Thoughts?

  11. I loved the descriptions of the finger patterns for chord shapes! Very helpful for a lot of non-guitarists. Thank you.

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