Product Number:
30608M
Format:
Book + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Beginning
Notation Type:
Standard Notation and Tab
Pages:
120
Binding:
Squareback Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
1-5134-6066-8
ISBN13:
978-15134-6066-6
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
2/16/2018
Spiced with humor, Anne Dodson’s Field Guide to the Mountain Dulcimer, Book 1 is a beautifully structured and organized guide, taking the beginning student step-by-step through a well-planned sequence of lessons. Friendly and encouraging, Book 1 covers tips on buying and maintaining the instrument, left and right hand techniques, chords, and accompaniment. Exercises, lots of fun tunes to play, and downloadable audio files to support the written instruction all make Field Guide to the Mountain Dulcimer, Book I a lasting resource.
Differences between instruments
Tuning
Styles of playing, and what makes this book unique
Buying a dulcimer
Left-handed players
Care and Feeding of Your Dulcimer: how to keep your instrument healthy
Blank TAB for three-string and four-string instruments
Level I – The Basics
Introduction to Level I: a pep talk
The Basics: body position, fingering, first tunes
Recognizing Frets: finding your way around the fretboard
Basic Right Hand Techniques: strumming, picking and plucking
Playing on All Three Strings: becoming dimensional
Chords and How They Work on the Dulcimer:
positions, majors, minors, “undefined” chords and charts
Combining Chords with Basic Right Hand Techniques:
putting it all together
Basic Left Hand Techniques: pull-offs, hammer-ons and slides
Take a Break – Level I: some tunes for you to play
Alabama Baby
Alabama Girl
All Through the Night
Around the Table
Asha’s Jig
Clementine
Cold Monday
Deest and Cheest
Far Away
Frere Jacques
Going Home
In the Air
Jessie the Cat
Jingle Bells
June Bug
Lament
Leap Frog
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Matt’s Return
Megunticook Rising
October’s End
Oh Susannah
The Orchard
Sailing Home
Serendipity
Shady Grove
She’ll be Comin’ Round the Mountain
Simple Gifts
Snow in Spring
Trillium Way
Trip to Waterville, The
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