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All of the songs on this video are in the mixolydian tuning. One main goal of this method is to teach you to take a melody line and put the appropriate chord structure behind it. This video will lead you through a series of finger warm-ups, scale practice, crossovers, walking the scale, and many other exercises. Includes free instructional booklet.
A companion video to Madeline MacNeil's You Can Teach Yourself Hammered Dulcimer book. Contains essential basic information on playing the hammered dulcimer -- such as tuning, major and minor keys, duplicated notes, repeated notes, modulations, walking bass lines, chromatic notes, drone harmony, back-up chords, interval harmony, and more! Also contains Madeline MacNeil's hammered dulcimer solos on 25 tunes.
An easy to understand, yet very thorough, beginner's guide to playing the mountain dulcimer. This video is based on Madeline MacNeil's extremely popular book of the same title. Included are basic concepts such as holding the dulcimer, strumming, major tunings, minor tuning, melody playing, chord shapes, and more. In addition, Madeline teaches a wealth of popular dulcimer songs. This is an excellent beginner's guide to the musical world found on the mountain dulcimer.
An ideal self-instruction video for dulcimer players wishing to expand their repertoire and learn new techniques. Included are advanced flatpicking and modified fingerpicking techniques, tuning, cross-tuning, left-hand positions and much more.
Robin Petrie shows a basic approach to understand and playing the hammered dulcimer by ear. She fully explains how to tune, how to find your way around the instrument, how to hammer, and how to pick out scales, chords and arpeggios.
In this video, Mark Nelson covers all the basics from tuning to strumming and hand position. Both traditional Appalachian "noter" style and the more modern melodic style are covered, along with tips on using ornamentation and simple harmony.
An advanced instructional guide to Celtic styling and related techniques. This video is ideal for the intermediate to advanced hammered dulcimer player.
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