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.

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Folk Number of pages : 96 Visit the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s - and bring your dulcimer! Ralph Lee Smith was there and saw it all. He was the only dulcimer player in the Village's old-timey string bands during the Folk Revival's glory days. A fascinating text and rare photographs bring you to Washington Square, the coffeehouses and the music gatherings at the Folklore Center and in Allan Block's Sandal Shop, where young enthusiasts created a musical revolution. The book contains a selection of the songs and tunes that they played and swapped as they reclaimed a lost American heritage. If you can't play old tunes such as Finger Ring, Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand, and Chickens are a-Crowin', get this book, light a candle and bring the Greenwich Village folk scene to your home or coffeehouse! Includes dulcimer tab in DAA and DAD, musical notation and guitar chords.

Homespun Level 1-2-Unlock the secrets of this stunning and highly characteristic instrument with the help of a true Dulcimer master. The beauty of the instrument is such that even a novice can entice sweet tones and simple tunes almost immediately. For an experienced player the Dulcimer is rich complex versatile and highly expressive.Starting with tuning up Schnaufer covers your first scales fingerings and strumming techniques. You'll then learn accompaniments to some of country music's greatest melodies including adding chords and harmony. There are several beautiful arrangements of classics including Tennessee Waltz and I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry that will open up newdoors in your playing and musicianship giving you the tools to really expand your abilities with this wonderful instrument.

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.