Mountain Dulcimer Instructional Materials
Janita Baker |
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| Fingerpicking Dulcimer Book & Compact Disc - $20.00 |
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21 songs arranged for the mountain dulcimer, this book offers a wide variety of musical genres and playing levels. Divided between arrangements for 3 and 4 equidistant strings, the songs progress in difficulty within each section from beginner to advanced level. Each piece is written in both standard music notation and dulcimer tablature. Many arrangements utilize the 6 1/2 fret, and tunings range from standard modal tunings to four-string variations. Songs: In Christ There is No East or West, House of the Rising Sun, Country Gardens, Londonderry Air, Ode to Joy, Grandfather’s Clock, All Through the Night, Trumpet Voluntary, The Minstrel Boy, Spanish Fandango, Minuet in G Major, Greensleeves, Andante, Fur Elise, My Old Dentucky Home, Aura Lee, Rondo, Careless Love, Bink’s Waltz, The Entertainer, The Ragtime Dance, The Old Piano Roll Blues. |
Larkin Bryant |
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| Larkin's Dulcimer Book Book & Compact Disc - $24.00 |
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This is one of the most widely accepted MD instructional manuals for beginning and intermediate players. With 100 pages of instructions including 24 songs, this book, with accompanying CD, is well organized and illustrated. Includes: Playing with a noter, Explanation of different modes, Strumming information, Learning chords, Fingerpicking patterns, How to use the pinch, Brush and the drag and How to play the melody on the middle or bass strings. Songs: Go Tell Aunt Rhodie, Bile Them Cabbage Down, Skip to my Lou, Holy Manna, Liza Jane, Down in the Valley, Wildwood Flower, Sweet Hour of Prayer, Hey Ho Nobody Home, Scarborough Fair, Pretty Polly, Lord Lovel, Shady Grove, Mary Hamilton, Shenandoah, Old Joe Clark, Harrison town, Cripple Creek, Down Came An Angel, Amazing Grace, Morning Song, Simple Gifts, Brahms Lullaby. |
Neal Hellman |
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| Dulcimer Chord Book Book - $6.00 |
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More than 500 chords for five widely used modes, plus “Jazz” and 4-string chromatic tunings are found in this handy, compact book. Learn to utilize and incorporate the chords into your own technique, and to play with others. Expand your knowledge of the dulcimer and add new dimensions to your versatility as a player. A must for all MD players! |
Maddie MacNeil |
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You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer |
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Maddie’s performances are characterized by her effortless vocals and impeccable mountain and hammered dulcimer playing. In this book she reveals some of the secrets of her success with the mountain dulcimer. Early on, she reminds the reader that “the dulcimer is not a toy or a stringed kazoo” but a serious, expressive musical instrument capable of “stretching as far as the imagination.” She endorses both playing by ear and learning to read standard notation. In easily-understood language she manages to explore some very complex, even esoteric concepts, making this a particularly valuable book for the beginning instrumentalist. Twelve intensive lessons in 95 pages. Standard notation and tablature. Songs: Boil the Cabbage Down, Waterbound, Soldier’s Joy, Cripple Creek, John Brown’s Dream, Down in the Valley, Ode to Joy, Oh Suzanna, Ode to Joy, Au Clair De La Lune, Flop Eared Mule, Golden Slippers, Simple Gifts, Amazing Grace, She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain, Home on the Range, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Away in a Manger, The Ash Grove, Arkansas Traveler, Shady Grove, Greensleeves, The Willow Song, Going to Boston, Bonnie Tyneside, Ah Poor Bird, Country Gardens, Lo How a Rose Eer |
Wonderful World of DAA Book w/CD - $18.00 |
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DAA is a beautiful tuning for the mountain dulcimer. This book contains 19 arrangements of traditional Irish, Welsh, French Canadian, Scottish, and American folk tunes and songs. Written in notation and tablature for the three-string dulcimer with chord symbols. Lyrics are included where appropriate. Beginning level of difficulty. The companion play-along CD features all of the tunes in the same order as the book, played by the author. The recording will help make the unique style of the dulcimer clear. Songs: Spotted Pony, Lodging On the Cold Ground, Be Thou My Vision, Aura Lee, Un Canadien Errant, All Through The Night, Grandfather’s Clock, Southwind, Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes, The Shucking of the Corn, Will Ye Gang To Kelvingrove, Flower Carol, The Ash Grove, Lovely Nancy, The Water Is Wide, Beach Spring, If All The World Were Paper, Auld Lang Syne, Twinkle Twinkly Little Star. |
Joyce Ochs |
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| First Lessons: Mountain Dulcimer Book w/CD $8.00 |
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This instruction book for beginning lap dulcimer in DAD tuning is unique in two ways. First, it instructs the beginning student in the increasingly popular DAD tuning. Secondly, the author, a classroom music teacher, has carefully and systematically layered the lessons to guide the student through familiar songs while teaching skills and musical concepts. This not only enables the student to enjoy the lap dulcimer but also enhances total music understanding and participation. The accompanying CD provides instructional dialogue and demonstrations of the techniques and songs included in the book. Additional hints and exercises are presented in an inviting and encouraging conversational text. Tunes included: Boil Them Cabbage, Hot Cross Buns, Go Tell Aunt Rhody, Boil Them Cabbage, Merrily We Roll Along, London Bridge, Frere Jacque, Skip to My Lou, Down in the Valley, Three Jolly Fishermen, Polly Wolly Doodle, Simple Gifts, Kum Ba Ya, This Old Man, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Oh! Sussanna, When the Saints Go Marching In, Little Liza Jane, Old Joe Clark, Camptown Races, Amazing Grace, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Home On the Range |
Kendra Ward |
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| Mountain Dulcimer Cheat Sheets DAD Sheet - $5 DAA Sheet - $5 |
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| Each “Cheat Sheet” clearly illustrates the primary chords which you’ll need in order to play in all the of the “common” jam session keys, and all the ways that you can play that chord! The “Cheat Sheets” are each one double-sided page, printed in color and laminated for years of use. | |
| Mountain Dulcimer Basics DVD - $30.00 |
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| 50 Minutes of beginning Mountain Dulcimer lessons on video from Kendra! Step by step lessons include: Defining Mountain Dulcimer Basics, Getting In Tune, Playing with a Noter & Pick, Learning Melodies, Fingering Easy Chords, Accompanying Your Vocals. | |