"Angeline the Baker" Lesson, from Beginning Mandolin with Sharon Gilchrist

In her Peghead Nation Beginning Mandolin course, Sharon Gilchrist will get you started off right on the mandolin, with basic techniques, scales and chords, and simple and popular bluegrass and old-time tunes to play. In this sample lesson, Sharon introduces the fiddle tune “Angeline the Baker,” which is a must-know tune for all roots music instrumentalists. Learn it by ear in this video, as Sharon takes it apart phrase-by-phrase, starting with the A part.

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Sharon Gilchrist has long made her home in the American acoustic music scene. Whether she’s playing mandolin, thumpin’ the upright bass, singing a traditional ballad, or performing one of her original pieces, her music is steeped in traditional Appalachian sounds, delivered with a distinct spacious, graceful, and fiery style all her own.

Sharon has performed with Darol Anger, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet, Uncle Earl, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, the Kathy Kallick Band, Bill Evans, and many others. Her playing can be heard on two film shorts that feature her original music: Milagros and La Sevillana as well as Quartet, the Rounder Records release by the Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet.

Sharon is also a respected mandolin teacher, with numerous private and Skype students. She served as mandolin instructor at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design from 2004 to 2012 and has taught at music camps throughout the US. She earned a bachelor’s degree in mandolin performance from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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