Andy Wood Interview

You've Hit Masters in Mechanics Material!

Just like those jackets in the '80s, this video is Members Only. Head on over to our signup page to get suited up.

Toggle Clips in Timeline
Toggle Topics in Timeline

00:00:01

Whiskey Before Hornpipe

 

00:00:38

Little Rock Getaway

 

00:01:09

Growing Up With Musical Intuition Before The Internet

 

00:02:50

8th of January - tk1

 

00:03:55

8th of January - tk2

 

00:04:21

8th of January Fiddle

 

00:07:12

Grassy Mando - tk1

 

00:07:28

Grassy Mando - tk2

 

00:07:38

Red Haired Boy - tk1

 

00:10:32

Scale Improv - tk1

 

00:10:50

Partial Picking Speed

 

00:10:52

Scale Improv - tk2

 

00:11:01

Musical ESP, Playing With Brian Arrowood

 

00:13:19

Boil Them Cabbage Down

 

00:13:27

Big Mon

 

00:13:34

Brilliancy

 

00:13:54

Liberty

 

00:14:06

Fisher's Hornpipe - tk2

 

00:14:13

Whiskey Before Breakfast

 

00:14:19

Wheel Hoss

 

00:14:40

Developing Arrangements For The Standards

 

00:14:48

Wheel Hoss Strummy

 

00:14:58

Wheel Hoss Notey

 

00:15:05

Wheel Hoss Embellish

 

00:15:44

Jerusalem Ridge Monroe

 

00:15:50

Jerusalem Ridge Baker

 

00:16:02

Roll Banjoesque

 

00:18:04

Pick Grip

 

00:21:27

Truth And Lie

 

00:22:02

Truth And Lie Slow

 

00:22:40

Arpeggio Improv

 

00:22:53

Arpeggios Major Variations - tk1

 

00:23:22

Arpeggio Inversions Slow

 

00:23:35

Arpeggio Inversions

 

00:23:45

Guitar-Style Sixes

 

00:25:45

Melodic Slides

 

00:26:12

Melodic Slide Short

 

00:26:30

Truth And Lie Shapes

 

00:27:26

The Live Set Up

 

00:28:52

Arpeggios Major Variations - tk2

 

00:29:00

Alternate Picking For Bluegrass

 

00:29:02

Red Haired Boy - tk2

 

00:29:58

Two-String Pedal

 

00:30:04

Two-String Pedal Fast

 

00:30:36

Roll Three-String - tk1

 

00:33:15

Pale Rider Sixes Demo

 

00:33:34

Pale Rider Sixes

 

00:33:37

Pale Rider Sixes Finish

 

00:33:57

Trischka Stutter

 

00:34:47

Winfield And Weiser Festivals

 

00:37:42

Bluegrass Competitions

 

00:44:39

Warmup And Session Playing

 

00:46:20

Rhythm Strum

 

00:46:50

Rhythm Notey

 

00:47:50

Rhythm Single Note - tk1

 

00:50:15

Two-String Pedal Slides

 

00:50:34

Scale Improv - tk3

 

00:52:44

Choosing The Right Pick

 

00:54:45

Plucking One Or Both Strings On Mandolin

 

00:55:31

Scale Improv - tk4

 

00:55:57

Scale Improv - tk5

 

00:56:04

Roll Improv

 

00:56:39

Finding Tricky Patterns Through Improvisation

 

00:58:32

Roll Three-String Progression - tk1

 

00:59:03

Roll Three-String - tk2

 

00:59:33

Roll Three-String Demo

 

00:59:55

Roll Three-String - tk3

 

01:00:32

Roll Three-String Fast

 

01:00:47

Roll Three-String Progression - tk2

 

01:03:06

Rhythm Single Note - tk2

 

01:03:49

Rhythm Single Note Fast

 

01:05:20

Rhythm Improv

 

01:06:50

A History Of Crosspicking And Playing With Intuition

 

01:07:17

Arrowhead Pass

 

01:07:39

Arrowhead Pass Rolls

 

01:14:30

Jerusalem Ridge

 

01:16:15

Over the Rainbow

 

01:16:35

Andy's Boogie

 

01:17:07

Andy's Rootsy Fusion

 

01:17:31

Chicken Bends - tk1

 

01:18:08

Chicken Blues

 

01:18:13

Ballad of Ricky and Cal Pentatonic

 

01:18:18

Ballad of Ricky and Cal

 

01:18:35

Swing Turnaround Double 2WPS

 

01:18:46

Swing Turnaround to Blues

 

01:18:49

Arpeggio Diminished Swing

 

01:19:00

Country Guitar Styles

 

01:19:10

Swing Turnaround

 

01:19:15

Arpeggio Augmented

 

01:19:24

Swing Augmented to Dominant

 

01:19:36

Arpeggio Min7b5

 

01:19:39

Chicken Shred

 

01:19:48

Blues Triplets Finish

 

01:19:56

Blues Triplets

 

01:20:00

Blues Triplets Asc Desc

 

01:20:53

Modern Swing

 

01:21:01

Swing Comping

 

01:21:33

Country Rock Drop D

 

01:22:38

Hybrid Picking And Brent Mason

 

01:22:46

Country Scales

 

01:22:56

Truth And Lie

 

01:23:07

Truth And Lie Demo

 

01:23:24

Truth And Lie Picked

 

01:24:04

Truth And Lie Picked Acoustic

 

01:24:13

Tumeni Notes

 

01:24:24

Tumeni Notes Fours

 

01:25:26

Arpeggio Maj

 

01:25:32

Roll DGB

 

01:25:44

Roll GBE

 

01:26:14

Alternate Crossings

 

01:27:06

Roll Scruggs

 

01:27:15

Roll O'Connor

 

01:27:39

Dixie Breakdown

 

01:28:53

Pick It Apart Arpeggios

 

01:28:58

Pick It Apart

 

01:29:09

Pick It Apart Fours

 

01:29:22

Arpeggio Diminished Fours Top Strings

 

01:29:24

Swing 11th - tk1

 

01:29:27

Brent's Swing

 

01:29:56

String Skip Blues

 

01:30:46

Arpeggio Dom11 Fours

 

01:30:58

Arpeggio Dom11 Fours Hybrid

 

01:31:12

Pick It Apart Arpeggios Hybrid

 

01:31:30

Ballad of Ricky and Cal Rolls

 

01:31:32

Ballad of Ricky and Cal Arpeggios

 

01:32:22

Ballad of Ricky and Cal Double Stops

 

01:32:43

Ballad of Walker and Texas Ranger Pt. 1

 

01:32:52

Ballad of Walker and Texas Ranger Pt. 2

 

01:33:11

Wrist, Elbow, Hand Positioning

 

01:33:18

Scalar Shred Acoustic

 

01:35:24

Roll ADG

 

01:35:29

Arpeggio Maj7 Maj6 Pulloffs

 

01:35:49

Arpeggio Maj7

 

01:36:06

Arpeggio Maj7 Maj6

 

01:36:22

Arpeggio Maj7 Improv

 

01:36:32

Arpeggio Maj9 Maj7 Improv

 

01:36:42

Arpeggio Maj7 Maj6 Variations

 

01:37:48

Chicken Medley

 

01:38:09

Hybrid Legato I-V

 

01:38:17

Hybrid Legato Maj679

 

01:38:24

Hybrid Legato Dom7 - tk1

 

01:38:51

Arpeggio Diminished Three-String

 

01:38:54

Diminished Swing - tk1

 

01:39:33

Rhythm Metal Mutes

 

01:41:30

Chicken Mason

 

01:41:38

Chicken Swing

 

01:41:44

Eric Johnson And Fives

 

01:42:24

Pentatonic EJ Style Moderate

 

01:42:46

Pentatonic EJ Style Ascending 2WPS

 

01:42:51

Pentatonic EJ Style

 

01:45:02

Bop, Bach and Roll

 

01:45:40

Callouses, Nails, And Finger Pads

 

01:46:18

Chicken Crunch

 

01:46:25

Chicken Legato

 

01:46:33

Hybrid Legato Dom7 - tk2

 

01:46:45

Chicken Hazzard

 

01:48:20

Orange Blossom Special

 

01:48:38

Orange Blossom Special Rolls

 

01:49:00

Stoney Point

 

01:49:15

Blackberry Blossom

 

01:49:46

Arpeggio Maj Slow

 

01:49:46

The Arpeggios Problem

 

01:49:56

Arpeggio Maj Moderate - tk2

 

01:50:28

Arpeggio Maj Moderate - tk1

 

01:51:15

Dom7 Blues

 

01:51:27

Augmented Jazz Minor - tk1

 

01:51:44

Augmented Jazz Minor - tk2

 

01:52:49

Eleventh Hour

 

01:53:28

Diminished Swing - tk2

 

01:53:35

Chromatic Swing - tk1

 

01:53:51

Chromatic Swing - tk2

 

01:54:07

Cold Shot

 

01:54:15

Blues Scrape

 

01:54:46

Swing 11th - tk2

 

01:54:51

Swing 11th Triad

 

01:54:57

Economy Picking And Dynamics

 

01:55:30

Diminished Pentatonic Improv

 

01:57:08

Marriage of Figaro

 

01:58:11

Clean and Smoky

 

8th of January - tk1

 

00:02:50

8th of January - tk2

 

00:03:55

8th of January Fiddle

 

00:04:21

Alternate Crossings

 

01:26:14

Andy Wood Deviation - Closeup

 

Andy's Boogie

 

01:16:35

Andy's Rootsy Fusion

 

01:17:07

Arpeggio Augmented

 

01:19:15

Arpeggio Diminished Fours

 

Arpeggio Diminished Fours Top Strings

 

01:29:22

Arpeggio Diminished Swing

 

01:18:49

Arpeggio Diminished Three-String

 

01:38:51

Arpeggio Dom11 Fours

 

01:30:46

Arpeggio Dom11 Fours Hybrid

 

01:30:58

Arpeggio Improv

 

00:22:40

Arpeggio Inversions

 

00:23:35

Arpeggio Inversions Slow

 

00:23:22

Arpeggio Maj

 

01:25:26

Arpeggio Maj Moderate - tk1

 

01:50:28

Arpeggio Maj Moderate - tk2

 

01:49:56

Arpeggio Maj Slow

 

01:49:46

Arpeggio Maj7

 

01:35:49

Arpeggio Maj7 Improv

 

01:36:22

Arpeggio Maj7 Maj6

 

01:36:06

Arpeggio Maj7 Maj6 Pulloffs

 

01:35:29

Arpeggio Maj7 Maj6 Variations

 

01:36:42

Arpeggio Maj9 Maj7 Improv

 

01:36:32

Arpeggio Min7b5

 

01:19:36

Arpeggios Major Variations - tk1

 

00:22:53

Arpeggios Major Variations - tk2

 

00:28:52

Arrowhead Pass

 

01:07:17

Arrowhead Pass Rolls

 

01:07:39

Augmented Jazz Minor - tk1

 

01:51:27

Augmented Jazz Minor - tk2

 

01:51:44

Ballad of Ricky and Cal

 

01:18:18

Ballad of Ricky and Cal Arpeggios

 

01:31:32

Ballad of Ricky and Cal Double Stops

 

01:32:22

Ballad of Ricky and Cal Pentatonic

 

01:18:13

Ballad of Ricky and Cal Rolls

 

01:31:30

Ballad of Walker and Texas Ranger Pt. 1

 

01:32:43

Ballad of Walker and Texas Ranger Pt. 2

 

01:32:52

Big Mon

 

00:13:27

Blackberry Blossom

 

01:49:15

Blues Scrape

 

01:54:15

Blues Triplets

 

01:19:56

Blues Triplets Asc Desc

 

01:20:00

Blues Triplets Finish

 

01:19:48

Boil Them Cabbage Down

 

00:13:19

Bop, Bach and Roll

 

01:45:02

Brent's Swing

 

01:29:27

Brilliancy

 

00:13:34

Chicken Bends - tk1

 

01:17:31

Chicken Bends - tk2

 

Chicken Blues

 

01:18:08

Chicken Crunch

 

01:46:18

Chicken Hazzard

 

01:46:45

Chicken Legato

 

01:46:25

Chicken Mason

 

01:41:30

Chicken Medley

 

01:37:48

Chicken Shred

 

01:19:39

Chicken Swing

 

01:41:38

Chromatic Swing - tk1

 

01:53:35

Chromatic Swing - tk2

 

01:53:51

Clean and Smoky

 

01:58:11

Cold Shot

 

01:54:07

Country Rock Drop D

 

01:21:33

Country Scales

 

01:22:46

Diminished Pentatonic Improv

 

01:55:30

Diminished Swing - tk1

 

01:38:54

Diminished Swing - tk2

 

01:53:28

Dixie Breakdown

 

01:27:39

Dom7 Blues

 

01:51:15

Eleventh Hour

 

01:52:49

Fisher's Hornpipe - tk2

 

00:14:06

Grassy Mando - tk1

 

00:07:12

Grassy Mando - tk2

 

00:07:28

Guitar-Style Sixes

 

00:23:45

Hybrid Legato Dom7 - tk1

 

01:38:24

Hybrid Legato Dom7 - tk2

 

01:46:33

Hybrid Legato I-V

 

01:38:09

Hybrid Legato Maj679

 

01:38:17

Jerusalem Ridge

 

01:14:30

Jerusalem Ridge Baker

 

00:15:50

Jerusalem Ridge Monroe

 

00:15:44

Liberty

 

00:13:54

Little Rock Getaway

 

00:00:38

Marriage of Figaro

 

01:57:08

Melodic Slide Short

 

00:26:12

Melodic Slides

 

00:25:45

Modern Swing

 

01:20:53

Orange Blossom Special

 

01:48:20

Orange Blossom Special Rolls

 

01:48:38

Over the Rainbow

 

01:16:15

Pale Rider Sixes

 

00:33:34

Pale Rider Sixes Demo

 

00:33:15

Pale Rider Sixes Finish

 

00:33:37

Partial Picking Speed

 

00:10:50

Pentatonic EJ Style

 

01:42:51

Pentatonic EJ Style Ascending 2WPS

 

01:42:46

Pentatonic EJ Style Moderate

 

01:42:24

Pentatonic EJ Style UWPS

 

Pick It Apart

 

01:28:58

Pick It Apart Arpeggios

 

01:28:53

Pick It Apart Arpeggios Hybrid

 

01:31:12

Pick It Apart Fours

 

01:29:09

Red Haired Boy - tk1

 

00:07:38

Red Haired Boy - tk2

 

00:29:02

Rhythm Improv

 

01:05:20

Rhythm Metal Mutes

 

01:39:33

Rhythm Notey

 

00:46:50

Rhythm Single Note - tk1

 

00:47:50

Rhythm Single Note - tk2

 

01:03:06

Rhythm Single Note Fast

 

01:03:49

Rhythm Strum

 

00:46:20

Roll ADG

 

01:35:24

Roll Banjoesque

 

00:16:02

Roll DGB

 

01:25:32

Roll GBE

 

01:25:44

Roll Improv

 

00:56:04

Roll O'Connor

 

01:27:15

Roll Scruggs

 

01:27:06

Roll Three-String - tk1

 

00:30:36

Roll Three-String - tk2

 

00:59:03

Roll Three-String - tk3

 

00:59:55

Roll Three-String Demo

 

00:59:33

Roll Three-String Fast

 

01:00:32

Roll Three-String Progression - tk1

 

00:58:32

Roll Three-String Progression - tk2

 

01:00:47

Scalar Shred Acoustic

 

01:33:18

Scale Improv - tk1

 

00:10:32

Scale Improv - tk2

 

00:10:52

Scale Improv - tk3

 

00:50:34

Scale Improv - tk4

 

00:55:31

Scale Improv - tk5

 

00:55:57

Stoney Point

 

01:49:00

String Skip Blues

 

01:29:56

Swing 11th - tk1

 

01:29:24

Swing 11th - tk2

 

01:54:46

Swing 11th Triad

 

01:54:51

Swing Augmented to Dominant

 

01:19:24

Swing Comping

 

01:21:01

Swing Turnaround

 

01:19:10

Swing Turnaround Double 2WPS

 

01:18:35

Swing Turnaround to Blues

 

01:18:46

Trischka Stutter

 

00:33:57

Truth And Lie

 

00:21:27

Truth And Lie

 

01:22:56

Truth And Lie Demo

 

01:23:07

Truth And Lie Picked

 

01:23:24

Truth And Lie Picked Acoustic

 

01:24:04

Truth And Lie Shapes

 

00:26:30

Truth And Lie Slow

 

00:22:02

Tumeni Notes

 

01:24:13

Tumeni Notes Fours

 

01:24:24

Two-String Pedal

 

00:29:58

Two-String Pedal Fast

 

00:30:04

Two-String Pedal Slides

 

00:50:15

Wheel Hoss

 

00:14:19

Wheel Hoss Embellish

 

00:15:05

Wheel Hoss Notey

 

00:14:58

Wheel Hoss Strummy

 

00:14:48

Whiskey Before Breakfast

 

00:14:13

Whiskey Before Hornpipe

 

00:00:01