Hands On Dulcimer

Author : MIKE CASEY
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610656740

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Hands-On Dulcimer by MIKE CASEY Pdf

This book is designed to help fretted dulcimer players at all levels grow in their technical abilities by developing strength, precision, control and flexibility in both the right and left hands. Acquiring a solid technical foundation provides a base upon which to build strong musicianship, enabling one to play more satisfying music regardless of style. Explore flatpicking, fingerpicking, slurs, chords, strumming, left hand precision and placement, right hand strength and control, volume, tone, articulation, and more using both dulcimer tablature and standard music notation. In this book, Mike has used ideas drawn from classical guitar study plus years of teaching dulcimer to develop exercises that will inspire and challenge players at all levels. the tunes and exercises are in the common dulcimer tuning of D-A-D, with a few exceptions. Some exercises are included for the four-string and five-string dulcimers, and a 6+ fret is required. the accompanying CD demonstrates key exercises and most of the tunes in the book.

Author : MADELINE MACNEIL
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609747145

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You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer by MADELINE MACNEIL Pdf

Madeline MacNeil'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 instrumentalists. You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer is simply a great fundamental book. Twelve intensive lessons in 95 pages. Standard notation and tablature. Illustrated with photographs and drawings.

Author : Janita Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786663731

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Fingerpicking Dulcimer by Janita Baker Pdf

A collection of 21 songs arranged in a fingerpicking style for the mountain dulcimer, this book 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 dulcimer tablature, 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 range of 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, Fr Elise, 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 CD is an instrumental 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.

Author : James Major
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609747961

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Dulcimer Chord Encyclopedia by James Major Pdf

A comprehensive chord encyclopedia for the mountain dulcimer in the common Mixolydian, Ionian, Dorian, Lydian, and Phrygian modal tunings. Three different tunings are presented for each mode!

Author : Robert Force,Albert D'Ossché
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015023759932

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In Search of the Wild Dulcimer by Robert Force,Albert D'Ossché Pdf

Author : Bing Futch
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1481163191

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Method for Beginning Mountain Dulcimer by Bing Futch Pdf

Bing Futch's "Method For Beginning Mountain Dulcimer" is the most comprehensive how-to-learn-the-dulcimer book available. You'll learn the basics, sure, and start playing songs right away. Even better, though, is the depth of content that Bing provides for you in this one incomparable volume - technique, repertoire, theory, history, and FUN! Once you've worked your way through this book, you'll be a competent dulcimer player that can enjoy playing with any group. You'll have a great time honing your skills with Bing, and you'll end up with a wealth of technical skills, music fundamentals, and dulcimer repertoire!

Author : JOYCE E. OCHS
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610656733

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First Lessons Dulcimer by JOYCE E. OCHS Pdf

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.

Author : Sam Venable
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 1572330902

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Mountain Hands by Sam Venable Pdf

Hazel Pendley creates heirloom-quality quilts. Ed Ripley wraps bits of fur and feathers into trout flies the size of gnats. Edna Hartong still makes an item that has all but disappeared from the American scene: lye soap. All of these people, and many more like them, are Appalachians who work with their hands. Journalist Sam Venable and photographer Paul Efird spent four years combing the hills and hollows of Southern Appalachia to find these talented individuals and let them talk about their work. Mountain Hands is an intimate look at more than three dozen such craftspeople and their vocations. Venable and Efird encountered folks who pursue popular crafts, such as basketweaving and clockmaking. But they found practitioners of other trades--wallpaper hangers and rail splitters, beekeepers and gravediggers--whose work also depends upon dexterity and upon expressing a distinctive Appalachian way of life. Some are college educated, some can barely read and write; some have lived in these hills all their lives, others have only recently come to call them home. Yet each feels bound to the region through a deep sense of belonging, and each owes at least part of his or her livelihood to handwork. While most of us may think of working with one's hands as entering computer data, these individuals attest to the perseverance--and appeal--of more traditional ways. Mountain Hands is a celebration in words and photographs of gifted people who understand and appreciate the Appalachian heritage--and who live it every day. The Author: A fifth-generation southern Appalachian, Sam Venable is a newspaper columnist whose award-winning observations on daily life appear four times a week in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Venable has spent most of his career roaming the highlands of his home state. He and his wife, Mary Ann, also a Tennessee native and UT graduate, live in a log house atop a wooded ridge on the outskirts of Knoxville. The Photographer: Paul Efird is a native of Rome, Georgia. He holds a degree in biology from Shorter College but has spent his professional career as a news photographer. After working for two newspapers in Georgia, he moved to Tennessee in 1990 and became a staff photographer for the News-Sentinel. Efird is an avid hiker, canoeist, and backpacker. He and his wife, Stephanie, live in Knoxville.

Author : MADELINE MACNEIL
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609740511

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You Can Teach Yourself Hammered Dulcimer by MADELINE MACNEIL Pdf

Every aspect of the hammered dulcimer and its playing techniques is covered in this comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand text. A masterful teacher, Madeline MacNeil exceeds the expectations of a beginner's book, providing a firm foundation for the development of a total musician while maintaining an engaging, informal tone throughout. with detailed discussions on dulcimer layout, hammers, tuning, and stands plus extensive performance notes on every tune, this book is a valuable asset to the beginning through intermediate player. from Oh Suzanna to Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Madeline shows the novice dulcimer player how to map your way through a new piece of music, finding clear, musical directions through what at first must seem like a maze of strings. All tunes are in standard notation. the book's 87 pages are illustrated with photos as well as quaint woodcuts, engravings, and pen and ink drawings.

Author : MARK BIGGS
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610654562

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Complete Dulcimer Handbook by MARK BIGGS Pdf

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 Dulcimer Handbook 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 brief pedagogical 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 CD features the author's outstanding performance of 17 tunes from the book.

Author : Chet Hines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Appalachian dulcimer
ISBN : UCSD:31822035560135

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How to Make and Play the Dulcimore by Chet Hines Pdf

Author : Thomas Balinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1547289244

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Dulcimer Songbook by Thomas Balinger Pdf

Thomas Balinger Dulcimer Songbook 70 popular songs for dulcimer in D-A-D tuning Revised Edition 2017/2018 (TAB fret numbers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 6+ 7) 70 popular tunes arranged for dulcimer in standard mixolydian tuning D-A-D (6 1/2 fret models). Progressively graded from simple melody playing on one or two strings to easy fingerpicking arrangements of 10 popular songs, this collection is aimed at the beginning player. Plus chord symbols, dulcimer chord diagrams and a collection of strumming patterns for song accompaniment. Songs: 1. Amazing grace 2. America (My country 'tis of thee) 3. America the beautiful 4. Auld lang syne 5. Aura Lee 6. Away in a manger 7. Banks of Allan Water 8. Banks of Sacramento 9. Banks of the Ohio 10. Barbara Allen 11. Bound for the Rio Grande 12. Buffalo gals 13. Bury me not on the lone prairie 14. Camptown races 15. Can the circle be unbroken 16. Careless love 17. Cindy 18. Clementine 19. Cotton-eyed Joe 20. Danny Boy 21. Deck the halls 22. Down by the riverside 23. Down in the valley 24. Finnegan's Wake 25. Give me that old time religion 26. Good night, ladies 27. Go, tell it on the mountain 28. He's got the whole world in His hands 29. Home on the range 30. Home! Sweet Home! 31. House of the rising sun 32. I'm on my way 33. I once loved a lass 34. Jingle bells 35. John Brown's body 36. Jolly good fellow 37. Kum ba yah 38. Little brown jug 39. Michael, row the boat ashore 40. Morning has broken 41. My Bonnie lies over the ocean 42. Nobody knows the trouble 43. Oh! Susanna 44. Old folks at home 45. Old MacDonald had a farm 46. On top of Old Smokey 47. Over the river and through the woods 48. Poor Paddy works on the railrway 49. Scarborough fair 50. She'll be coming round the mountain 51. Shenandoah 52. Shortnin' bread 53. Skibbereen 54. Skip to my Lou 55. Swing low, sweet chariot 56. The John B. sails 57. The minstrel boy 58. The Wabash Cannon Ball 59. The water is wide 60. The wild rover 61. The yellow rose of Texas 62. Tom Dooley 63. Twinkle, twinkle, little star 64. Up on the housetop 65. Waltzing Matilda 66. Wayfaring stranger 67. What shall we do with the drunken sailor 68. When the saints go marchin' in 69. Whiskey in the jar 70. Yankee Doodle

Author : JANITA BAKER
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610657754

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Fingerpicking Dulcimer by JANITA BAKER Pdf

A collection of 21 songs arranged in a fingerpicking style for the mountain dulcimer, this book 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 dulcimer tablature, 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 range of 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, Für Elise, 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 CD is an instrumental 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.

Author : Albert Gamse
Publisher : Dulcimer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 082565369X

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The Best Dulcimer Method Yet by Albert Gamse Pdf

(Ashley Publications). Easy instructions plus 139 selections by Albert Gamse for all 3 and 4 string dulcimers.

Author : Peter B. Irvine,Dona Benkert
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781619117853

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs for Voice and Dulcimer by Peter B. Irvine,Dona Benkert Pdf

These compositions are collaborations based on texts and tunes from a variety of sources, including the Bible, the 1940 Episcopal Hymnal, George Herbert, Thomas Tallis and others. Arranged for the mountain dulcimer, these renditions provide traditional repertoire for individuals, house churches and congregations without an organ, as well as a musical change of pace. They can be sung by soloists, choirs and congregations alike. Written in standard notation and tablature in DAD tuning.