Bluegrass Bass with Missy Raines

Missy Raines has created a definitive video library that includes hundreds of bluegrass bass lessons. Students have unlimited access to all these online bass lessons plus bass tabs, backing tracks, and other study materials. What ultimately sets these online bass lessons apart from other offerings however, is the ability to submit a video for review using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange® learning platform. Missy Raines reviews each submission and records a video response, offering tips about how to improve. All students can access Missy’s Video Exchange library, which is constantly expanding and may contain the key to unlock your playing.

Bassist Missy Raines has been honored as IBMA's "Bass Player of the Year" 9 times, more than any other bass player in bluegrass history and she was the first woman to do so. (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2019, and 2020). Her most recent album, Royal Traveller, was nominated for a Grammy for "Best Bluegrass Album" in 2020. In 2018, Missy's version of, ”Swept Away”, (Royal Traveller), received the IBMA "Recorded Event of the Year" award, and in 2019 her rendition of the bluegrass classic, "Darlin' Pal(s) of Mine", (Royal Traveller), received IBMA’s "Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year" award. Though Missy's career began as a bass player for many of bluegrass' 1st and 2nd generation icons such as Eddie Adcock, Jesse McReynolds, Kenny Baker, and Claire Lynch, Missy has spent the last decade as a bandleader, singer, and acclaimed songwriter. In 2020, she was co-writer of IBMA's "Song of the Year”, for "Chicago Barn Dance”, along with Becky Buller and Alison Brown. In 2019, Missy was featured in the "American Currents" exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, TN.