WELCOME

Wheelock Music Works is devoted to the study of voice, fiddle, mandolin, & guitar in the context of acoustic styles of Old-Time, Bluegrass, Folk, Swing, & Jazz, with the goal of teaching young students the fundamentals of learning to play music.
Here can be found links to videos, sound files, and other instruction materials referenced in Philip Wheelock's instruction sessions.

Transcribing (working out how to play and/or write out a piece of music from a CD, .mp3 or .mp4 video file) is one of the best ways to learn new music and play it correctly. There are several transcribing applications available for use on your computer. The recommended application would be Transcribe!, a stable, mature application that is available on Windows and Mac platforms. Especially useful is its ability to play .mp4 files, complete with scalable video.