QUICK TIPS
Stash has released over 140 lessons, also known as “Quick Tips,” which focus on process and general method of musical investigation. You can find all of them on his Patreon and some on his YouTube Channel.
Please find examples and a full list of Quick Tips below.
Simplify Fiddle Tunes
Learn to simplify fiddle tunes and songs that you play to bare bones.
Develop and Flatpick Flow
Develop and practice your improvising flatpicking flow - 8th notes.
Improvise Slowly
Two types of slow improvisation: Intellectual and then where you actually try to play and be in the moment. Let something come through that can't because you're usually too analytical, critical or hurried.
Full List of Quick Tips:
1. Simplify Fiddle Tunes
2. Explore Open Position
3. Fiddle Tunes in Different Positions
4. Melody + Bass Note
5. One String Fiddle Tunes
6. Triads On the Guitar (Part 1)
7. Interpolate Intervals into Scale Practice
8. Voice Leading Triads
9. Deep Interval Work
10. Minor & Diminished Triads
11. Diatonic Triads
12. Exercises from Repertoire
13. 1235 Tetrachord
14. Arpeggios 101
15. Singing Unison
16. Exploiting Doc Watson Bass Runs
17. Scales in Triads
18. Sing Double Stops
19. Approach Tones for Melodic Variations
20. Double Stops in Melodies
21. Explore Shapes of Melodies and Solos
22. Count, Name and Number
23. Musical Intervals 101
24. 7th Chord Components
25. Diatonic 7th Chords
26. Three 7th Chords to Open Up Guitar Neck
27. Harmonize Melodies with Triads (Part 2)
28. Frank Wakefield Solo on “Somebody Loves You Darling”
29. Modes 101
30. Play Songs in Different Modes
31. Harmonize Passing Tones with Triads
32. Crosspicking Patterns Galore
33. Harmonize Melodies with Triads (Part 3)
34. Crosspicking + Melody in Bluegrass
35. Modal Interchange on Fiddle Tunes
36. Different Scale Groupings on Guitar Breaks
37. Isolate Rhythms
38. Octave Displacement as Melodic Variation
39. Spread Triads Introduction
40. Voice-leading Spread Triads
41. Colored Up Triads
42. Rhythmic Displacement Ideas
43. Bluegrass + Polytonality
44. Counterpoint (Part 1)
45. Minor Tonality Derivation and Practice
46. Play Fiddle tunes in Distant Keys
47. Derive the 5 Families of Diatonic Triads in a Major Key
48. Phrasing Practice, Starting and Ending Phrases in Unexpected Places
49. My Favorite Way to Learn Fiddle Tunes (Ear-Training)
50. Chord Tone Awareness
51. Explore Quartal Triads
52. Wonderful World of Harmonics
53. Listen for Lowest and Highest Notes of Chords
54. Do I really know a Fiddle Tune?
55. Melodic Lead-ins for Solos
56. Reharmonize Standard Songs with Triads
57. Position Shifting
58. Playing Atonally
59. Syncopation in Fiddle Tunes
60. Ionian (Major Scale and Maj7 Arpeggios)
61. Dorian (2nd Mode of Major Scale and min7 Arpeggios)
62. Mixolydian (5th Mode of Major Scale and Dominant 7 Arpeggios)
63. Locrian (7th Mode of Major Scale and min7 b5 Arpeggios)
64. Skeletal Melodies
65. Practice Omission
66. Ping Ponging Skeletal Melody of Chord Tones for Melodic Variation
67. Expand/Contract Intervals
68. Lydian (4th Mode of Major)
69. Develop and Practice your Flatpicking Flow
70. Arpeggio Exercises to Increase Knowledge of ‘Good’ Notes
71. 3-Prong Practice Routine
72. Combine Arpeggios/Scales
73. Toggling Melody/Improvisation
74. Voice Leading Arpeggios
75. How to Create or Derive Scales Based on a Chord
76. Explore Intervals of Your Own Scales
77. Change Scales with Chords
78. 6ths Exercises For Your Changing Scales
79. 6ths on Specific String Sets
80. One-string Skeletal Melodies
81. Single String + Position Playing on Red Haired Boy
82. Double Stops on Skeletal Melodies
83. Random 8th Note Flow to Develop Acceptance/Confidence/Groove/Commitment
84. Improvising on Bill Cheatham
85. Flowing with a Destination
86. Flowing with a Launch Point and Destination
87. Chromaticism in Fiddle Tunes
88. Minor Scales for Minor Tunes
89. Slipstream by Bela Fleck – Melodic Analysis
90. Improvising on Slipstream (Part 1)
91. Improvising on Slipstream (Part 2)
92. Improvising on Slipstream (Part 3)
93. Fisher's Hornpipe Tetrachord Exercises
94. Farewell Blues Arpeggio Workout
95. Melodic Structures to Spell Out Chords
96. Improvise Slowly
98. Approach Tones
100. Scale Exercises from Repertoire
101. Practice Chord Changes with Melodic Motifs
102. Ride the Wild Turkey Improvising
103. Upper Structures
104. Alex Hargreaves on Key Signator
105. Scales in Triads
106. Chord Substitutions via Diminished Logic
107. Sing Root Motion of Interesting Chord Progressions
108. Sing the Roots and 3rds of Interesting Chord Progressions
109. What Scale to Play on a Chord (Revisited)
110. Sing the Root, 3rd, 5th and 7th of Chord Progressions
111. Chris Thile (Liberty) Solo Analysis
112. Harmonic Imposition (iv minor to I)
113. Meter Studies (Part 1)
114. The Whole Half Octatonic Scale (Diminished Scale)
115. Discipline Scale Practice
116. Imposing a Diminished Chord on Whiskey Before Breakfast
117. Brainstorm Roadmaps to Goals
118. Non-Chord-Tone Resting Points
119. Any Dominant Chord Can Resolve Anywhere (!?)
120. Impose Any Dominant on John Hardy
121. Chris Thile playing Uncle Pen (Analysis)
122. Imposing Your Own Harmony + Flowing with a Destination
123. Voice Lead your Scales
124. Delay and Anticipation as a Melodic Variation
125. Sing Solos (part 1)
126. Sing Solos (part 2)
127. Investigating David Grier Phraseology
128. Half-Whole Octatonic Scale
129. The Whole Tone Scale
130. Andy Statman plays Bill Monroe Analysis and Extrapolation
131. Escape Note Exercises
132. Augmented Triads in Bluegrass
133. Scaling up Arpeggios
134. Billy Contreras Plays the Blues
135. Darol Anger’s Amazing Fiddle Scale
136. Practicing Anticipation
137. Voice Leading Fun
138. What to Do With a Solo Once You Learned It
139. Mindset for Practicing
140. Permutations on Arpeggios
141. Lydian Major 7 Arpeggio (via Chris Eldridge Solo)