Nashville Number System Lesson 5 – Basic Soloing

In this lesson, Megan Lynch Chowning provides a framework for creating basic fiddle solos using The Nashville Number System. 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.


Here are links to the rest of this great lesson series:

• The Nashville Number System Lesson 1 – “The Fiddle Capo”
• The Nashville Number System Lesson 2 – Chopping and Basic Fills
• The Nashville Number System Lesson 3 – Advanced Fills and “The Money Lick”
• The Nashville Number System Lesson 4 – The Pentatonic Scale
• The Nashville Number System Lesson 6 – Advanced Soloing
• The Nashville Number System Lesson 7 – Alternative Double Stop Patterns

Take advantage of Fiddlevideo membership today: sign up to get unlimited access to over 350 full lesson modules which include:

• Performance video
• Basic melody tutorial
• Advanced melody tutorial
• Picture-in-picture videos for up close viewing of the left hand
• A/B user-defined video looping*
• Video speed controls (slow down the lessons)*
• Guitar practice track(s) – (N/A for trad Irish lessons)
• MP3 downloads of the audio performance tracks
• Sheet music for the basic song melody (including guitar chords)

Your subscription gets you access to lessons from all professional instructors on this site as well as all technique tutorials which break down common fiddle bowings, fingerings & tricks.

Take your fiddle playing to the next level today!!