What this site is for
Bluegrass Warrior publishes the parts of this music that only exist once five or six people sit in a circle: which seat keeps time and which one fills, how a break is handed on and handed back, what key the singer will call and who capos to meet them, and how three voices divide one melody. None of that belongs to a single instrument, which is exactly why no single instrument site can carry it.
The other side of that bargain is that this site will never teach you to play. It says the mandolin chops the backbeat; it does not put your left hand anywhere. That is deliberate, and this page is the missing half of the deal — a list of where the playing itself is taught, one seat at a time.
Where each seat is taught
String WarriorOne page that draws the same chord on twenty-odd tunings at once, which is what you want the week a jam hands you an instrument you have never held.
Theory WarriorWhen the caller shouts “four” and you want to know what a number actually is, rather than which grip it happens to map to on your instrument.
Keys WarriorThe instrument that is not in the circle, and the one most likely to be waiting when you leave it — seven keyboards' worth of chords and scales, organised by how many voices each can hold at once.
Ukulele WarriorNot a seat in this band at all, and the honest place to send the uke player who keeps turning up to the circle anyway.
Bass WarriorThe seat that decides where the beat lands. Here it is one row of a grid; there it is the entire subject, walked note by note.
Mandolin WarriorThe chop this site describes in a sentence, taught as a technique, with the left hand and the right hand pulled apart and drilled separately.
Guitar WarriorThe boom-chuck, the runs out of G and the capo positions this site quietly assumes you can already play by the time the kickoff lands.
Banjo WarriorThis site tells you when a break is yours; that one tells you what to put in it, right hand first, at the tempo a circle will actually count off.
Fiddle WarriorThe seat that answers the singer, with the bowing and the double stops no band-level page can teach you and this one does not pretend to.
Ear WarriorStanding in the circle you get one pass to hear where the tune went before your turn arrives. That site drills that reflex: a sound, a commitment, and a published record of which chords you keep mistaking for each other.
Music Warrior NetworkA band-at-a-time site cannot also be a directory of instruments; that site is the map — each sister's subject in a sentence and whether it is open yet, for the reader who came for the jam and needs the seat's own site next.
Nashville WarriorA band moves the key for the singer, not for the players, and the page on the stand should not care. That site is the written form of that flexibility, and the opposite pole from a circle where nothing is written down at all.
Mariachi WarriorThe clean opposite of a circle that takes turns: three sections, seven voices, and a written pattern everyone plays at the same instant. Reading both is the fastest way to see what each choice costs.
Jazz WarriorThe other site organised around seats rather than around instruments. Its four are a different room with the same question in it: who states the change, who fills the middle, and who is expected to stay out of the way.
Country WarriorThe network's other genre site, and the boundary is clean: this one is the ROOM — who takes the break, how a turn gets handed on. That one is the RECORD — a standing part for every chair, fixed in advance, played the same way every chorus.
Tres WarriorAnother music where a small string band splits one groove between its seats and everyone already knows the repertoire — except the seats are tres, bass, percussion and voice, and the thing holding it together loops instead of travelling through changes.
Sitar WarriorA bluegrass band is a room of people trading a lead; a sitar recital is one melodic line over a drone that never stops — the clearest picture of what an ensemble is actually for, taken by looking at music that does without one.
Oud WarriorThe takht — the small ensemble an oud sits in — divides a room much as a bluegrass circle does, by who takes the lead and who holds the ground, but with a completely different answer about how much of the lead is invented on the spot.
Cuatro WarriorAnother ensemble music where one small stringed instrument keeps the whole thing upright — except the seat belongs to two different instruments depending on the country, and the site's first job is telling you which one is playing.
Charango WarriorNot a bluegrass instrument, and useful for that: a rhythm instrument whose entire right hand is written out as cells, with the rests scored rather than left to feel. If you have tried to teach the chop by demonstration, that is the alternative.
Cavaquinho WarriorAnother music organised by what each pair of hands does, except its rhythm seat is the one being taught rather than the one keeping time in the background. If you have ever tried to explain the chop to somebody, that site has written the equivalent down.
Gear WarriorA seat in the jam is defined by what you play, so turning up with the wrong instrument for the seat is a buying decision, and that site is where buying decisions get laid out.
Blues WarriorBlues numbers turn up in a jam, played with licks built for major keys. That site reads the blues forms bar by bar and says which blues-scale notes sit inside each bar's chord and which rub against it.
Flamenco WarriorBluegrass rides a steady two-beat. That site is about a music that groups its counts unevenly: four palos over twelve counts, the accents marked, with each cadence given in any key.
Progression WarriorA jam names its chords by ear and by number. That site is for the song you only have as letters: it finds the key and flags the one chord that comes from outside it, before you call it to the band.
Pedal Steel WarriorThe resonator in a bluegrass band is played with a bar and no pedals. Its cousins are the subject of that site: the lap steel, and the E9 and C6 pedal steels with every pedal and knee lever worked out.
Scales WarriorBluegrass melodies mostly sit in major, with a lowered seventh turning up often enough to matter. That site maps that step, from Ionian to Mixolydian, and every other single-degree step between 49 modes.
Music Warrior AIMid-jam, a chord now gets looked up by asking an AI assistant. That site is the endpoint such an assistant can call: the chord's frets for the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar or bass, read from this network's data and cited to the page that owns it on that seat's own site.
How the network divides the work
One family, one home. Every seat in this band has a site that owns it outright — the resonator sits with the six-string on Guitar Warrior, the upright with the electrics on Bass Warrior — and nothing is taught twice. The repertoire index here is built on the same rule: it lists what a caller assumes you know, the key and the meter and the seat that kicks the tune off, and then hands the tune itself to the site where it is taught properly.
Sisters still being built are not in the list above. Some of them cover instruments with no regular seat in this music, which is a fair short answer to why a reader here is rarely waiting on one; each joins the list the day it opens.