I’m looking forward to teaching the Dobro class again at the 2025 Walker Creek Fall Music Camp! This time we’re going to focus on using more of the fretboard and playing up the neck on standard bluegrass music, all using straightforward strategies without getting bogged down in overly complicated scale patterns or fretboard concepts. Having taught at Walker Creek so many times, I have a good sense of where repeat students are on their respective Dobro journeys, so I’m tailoring this class accordingly: my goal will be to give you some new tools you can start using right away, including ghost notes and octave moves to add rhythmic interest, ideas for incorporating up-the-neck chords and double-stops, great sounding licks that work in proximity of any straight-bar major chord position, using a couple of chord inversions to scope out melody notes, and more. We’ll spend time on essential barring and picking techniques that will help open up new avenues for you on the Dobro fretboard. As always, I’ll give you a big pile of handouts including tablature for arrangements of of-the-neck solos on a few songs, and we’ll set aside a few minutes after each topic so you can record concise videos to help you remember the course content. This workshop will be geared towards intermediate and advanced players and will move at a calm intermediate pace, but everyone is welcome including beginners who are up for a challenge.