Book With Online Audio and Video-In this beginner's guide to the Dulcimer acclaimed Dulcimer player singer and storyteller Madeline MacNeil reveals some of the secrets behind her success with the instrument. At the very start she reminds thereader 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. MacNeil endorses both playing by ear and learning to read standardnotation. Using easily-understood language You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer explores some very complex even esoteric concepts making this a particularly valuable book for beginners wanting a comprehensiveintroduction to the instrument. You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer contains twelve intensive lessons in 95 pages. The featured music is written in both standard notation and tablature and the book isillustrated with photographs and drawings. Access to online audio tracks and videos is also included.  

This collection by Janita Baker contains 21 songs arranged in a fingerpicking style for the mountain Dulcimer. Fingerpicking Dulcimer offers a wide variety of musical genres and playing levels.Divided equally between arrangements for three and four 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 Dulcimertablature and is accompanied by performance tips for playing that song. Many arrangements utilize the 6 1/2 fret and tunings range from standard modal tunings to four-string variations. The arrangements cover a wide rangeof song styles including traditional ragtime blues and classical standards. Songs include: My Old Kentucky Home Londonderry Air All Through the Night The Entertainer Careless Love House of the Rising Sun FurElise and Bach's Minuet in G. There is an extensive introduction on playing techniques for both left and right hands tunings reading tablature and Dulcimer embellishments. The accompanying audio is aninstrumental recording of solo Dulcimer designed to give the student a note-for-note reference to each written arrangement while providing a performance-quality listening experience.

This book was written as a basic guide and source book for all Dulcimer players from the absolute novice to the most advanced picker. With its 53 songs in various modes and tunings The Complete DulcimerHandbook is meant to be used as a songbook a lesson plan book and a step-by-step guide from beginner to intermediate or advanced level.The author's basic premise is that given this instrument's relatively briefpedagogical history 'There are no right or wrong ways to play the mountain Dulcimer only harder or easier means of reaching the same ends'. The stereo audio recording features the author's outstanding performance of 17 tunesfrom the book. Includes access to online audio.

The arrangements in this book are based on the sixteen tunes found on the recording Southern Mountain Classics and are designed to be used with the recording. Although these arrangements are not exact transcriptions from the CD all of the tunes on the recording are included in the book. For each tune there is a song history and a page with the chord structure to help you follow the chords. Each piece is written out in notation and tablature in threeversions - beginner intermediate and advanced.

This outstanding children's method for mountain Dulcimer is the result of the author's many years of sharing the Dulcimer with children and has been successful with children as young as 5 years old. In it you will find manytraditional songs and folk tunes arranged for the mountain Dulcimer.Each song has a simple strum pattern indicated above it with fret numbers for the melody notes and lyrics included where appropriate. There areinstructions for strumming chording fingerpicking and for three modal tunings (Ionian Aeolian and Mixolydian). Harmony is included for many of the songs so two or more Dulcimers can play together.