Courses

A melody-driven course for intermediate and advanced players, music from Scotland, Ireland, and beyond — chosen for their melodic pull and harmonic color.

Step into the living heart of Irish traditional music, with a rich selection of classic Irish tunes — reels, jigs, hornpipes, and more — taught phrase by phrase

This course provides the tools to bridge from fundamental playing towards a more stylistically confident and ornamentally rich performance.

Explore Celtic harp traditions in this course, featuring a diverse repertoire to refine your technique and style.

Take your playing to the next level with this intermediate to advanced English Concertina course.

Learn to accompany Celtic tunes on the piano with Neil Pearlman, exploring essential chords, rhythmic tools, and creative techniques through New England and Cape Breton fiddle music.

Learn the basics of bagpiping with essential techniques and simple tunes like "Amazing Grace" using the practice chanter—perfect for beginners looking to build a solid foundation before moving on to the full bagpipes. Start your journey today!

This course is perfect for novices and covers essential techniques like hand positions, posture, and tuning. Learn enchanting Gallic melodies, progressing from simple tunes to intricate arrangements.

Explore the rich musical heritage of Setesdal. Master the unique melodies, bowings, and rhythms of this southern Norwegian tradition, including "Dolkaren," "Nordalaupen," and "Faremoen." Learn from Daniel's decades of experience, using both a standard fiddle and a Hardanger fiddle.

This course is tailored for novices, it offers step-by-step guidance on mastering concertina basics, including layout, bellows control, fingering, and learning your first tunes!

Traditional Nyckelharpa tunes from Uppland, and some not-so-well-known tunes from the neighboring county of Västmanland.

This course is a fantastic resource for anyone looking to learn or improve their bluegrass fiddle playing skills.

Join Ellika Frisell as she guides you through the rich musical traditions of "Dalarna", a region in Sweden.

Some are traditional melodies from Hardanger and some are composed by Rannveig herself. She teaches this course on her A/D accordion.

Learn fun whistle tunes from England, Scotland, and Ireland. Dive down into each style and discover what makes each of them sound different and unique. D-whistle.

Tom Willy teaches his unique repertoire on the diatonic button accordion in G/C, composed of traditional fiddle tunes. [G/C]

In this course, you will have the possibility to study Scottish traditional fiddle music with an amazing teacher that is warm, sharing, and funny

Ånon Egeland teaches some of "his" greatest hits, given to him over coffee and sandwiches in kitchens all around the Agder county in southern Norway. Ånon's old teachers, Salve Austenå, Sigurd Fjellstad, Andris Rysstad, Georg Brobakken and many more, gave him this musical torch to carry on to you!

An introduction to the traditional fiddle music of Jämtland. Learn the Jämt-style of play in Polska, Waltz, Schottis, and Snoa. Kjell-Erik teaches melodies, second voices, and how to "Kompa", to accompany tunes with chords and rhythm on the fiddle.

In this course, Johanne Løkensgard Mjøs lays the foundation for how to play the Hardanger Fiddle in the traditional Norwegian style. She teaches how to tune, hold, and play this amazing instrument.

Josefina Paulson takes you through the first steps on your journey towards mastery. First, you need an instrument, then know whether it is playable. Then learn how to hold, bow and use the keys. And not to forget, how to tune this beast of an instrument.

David's main focus is on the style of the Québécois tradition. Learn the ornaments, foot-tapping, bowings, tunings, great tunes, and how to make it swing and be danceable.

Mattias focuses on different tools for accompanying folk tunes with a guitar. He does it in two levels, with a 6-string guitar in standard tuning and a 12-string guitar tuned ADADAE.

This course is an introduction on how to play Clawhammer Banjo, Allison goes through, in great detail, the most common rhythm patterns and shows how to use them in the tunes she presents.

Get down to the roots of the Finnish Kantele tradition. In this course, Maija goes through techniques, styles, and shows how to make your own music on the Kantele.

Learn the Norwegian melodic style of Jaws Harp playing. Gangar from Setesdal and springliek from Gudbrandsdalen in Norway.

This will get you started on the diatonic button accordion. A G/C accordion is used.

This will get you started on your journey towards mastering the Fiddle!

Learn how traditional fiddle melodies can be played on a plucked instrument.

Dive into the deep well of the Shetland traditional music.

Springar, halling, bonde and a lyarslått from Valdres for Hardanger fiddle.

Springleik, waltz, and halling from Gudbrandsdalen in Norway.

Hardanger fiddle tunes from Tovdal, Telemark, and Setesdal in Norway.

Learn Swedish tunes from a true legend of the Nyckelharpa.

Get a peek into the rich Danish musical tradition in this overview of the musical landscape.

Swedish and Finnish fiddle tunes on the accordion.

Learn fiddle music from Kaustinen, Ostrobothnia, and other parts of Finland.

Traditional fiddle tunes from the region of Hälsingland in Sweden.

Learn the basic ideas of the Swedish "Tollin-Tambourine" technique.

Learn springar and gangar from Telemark, Norway.

Learn springar and laus from Hallingdal, Norway.

Learn pols and reinlender from Røros, Norway.