What could be more beautiful than mountain dulcimer arrangements of Christmas favorites spanning the centuries? This popular book brings the festive sound of the dulcimer to this joyous season. Creative beautiful arrangementson 23 Christmas favorites each with a notated melody line and tablature. Finger positions for each chord are included.

Singing and Backup With The Mountain Dulcimer - With Online Audio-In this new addition to Mel Bay's popular 'School Of' series MacNeil explains how to sing and accompany on the dulcimer. The book explains different chord types and how to apply them to a variety of songs.Learningbackup will also help you hear chord changes and melodic movement which will help you contribute to the song's narrative. Includes access to online audio.

This book was written to aid the dulcimer player in playing as a backup musician. It provides the tools necessary for musicians who are seeking to go beyond simple melody lines. The majority of chords diagrammed are those mostcommonly used and those whose notes are clustered on the instrument in six repeated shapes. Diagrams are shown for the 15/14 dulcimer.

An exciting collection of music for the Hammered Dulcimer as heard on Maggie Sansone's acclaimed recording A Celtic Fair. America's premier Hammered Dulcimer recording artist and player Sansone has created a perfect collection for all levels of playing including both a beginning 'melody-only' version and challenging intermediate versions with variations ornaments flams and bass runs. Two earlymusic pieces included present the melody and a version for duet and quartet with bass line. The music is drawn from jigs reels and airs from Ireland Scotland and Brittany France and Renaissance dance manuscripts. The sheetmusic is presented as the basic melody with chords and many of the tunes include a variety of advanced techniques (ornamentation flams rolls use of bass lines use of unusual modes and scales and interesting chord substitution)to add spice to the arrangements and challenge the player to reach towards the next level of advanced performance. Audio available online.

Thirty-eight all-time favorite dulcimer solos penned artistically by Colorado's Bud and Donna Ford. This text is a resource for any dulcimer player and an excellent supplement to any course of instruction. It includes melodylines lyrics and chord symbols plus a solo arrangement of each song in standard notation and tablature.

Par MAJOR JAMES. Une Encyclopédie complète de corde pour le dulcimer de montagne en communs Mixolydian, Ioniennes, Dorian, lydien et phrygien ajustements modales apportés. Ajustements apportés différentes trois sont présentées pour chaque mode ! / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / All Styles - Chord Book / Etude / Dulcimer des Appalaches (Cordes pincées)

Music of the World for Mountain Dulcimer contains 38 beautiful songs from around the globe all specially arranged for mountain dulcimer. This unique songbook features standard notation and tablature song notes a variety of tunings and styles plus an audio CD with demonstrations of all the songs in the book.

Author Bonnie Carol learned first hand about soulful Latin American music as she grew up along the Texas-Mexico border.In this book she takes familiar and obscure Latin American tunes and piecesinfluenced by Latin music and arranges them for Hammered Dulcimer and in some cases Fretted Dulcimer (with tablature) as well. She draws from a repertoire including Argentinean tangos Andean panpipe music Mexican mariachimusic Central American marimba music and music of the Chicano culture of the Southwest.

You Can Play For Hammered Dulcimer-National Hammered Dulcimer Champion Mark Wade presents common jam tunes in a unique way that shows beginners how to play the essence of the tunes simply and the intermediate/advanced players the ornamented versions. Each 'EasyDoes It' version of a tune is paired with the fancy rendition along with the chords. Now jamming is easier than ever for players of ALL levels!

Par MC NEIL MADELINE. Dans ce lecteur de maître dulcimer livre Madeline MacNeil enseigne commençant joueurs tuning, échelles, grattant, doigté, études de corde, remplaçante ajustements apportés, utilisez le capo, et comment utiliser le ' noter '. Elle approuve les jouer à l'oreille et apprentissage de la lecture de notation standard. Dans douze leçons intensives, elle explique tout, depuis les bases à certains concepts très complexes dans un langage facile à comprendre, ce qui en fait un livre particulièrement précieux pour l'instrumentiste de début. Les leçons et les chansons sont écrites en notation standard et en tablature. Ce package comprend également le DVD de compagnon dans lequel MacNeil montre les techniques et les chansons enseignés dans le livre. CD inclus également. / Niveau : Débutant / All Styles - Methods / Méthode / Dulcimer des Appalaches (Cordes pincées)

Ce livre et CD didact package vise à encourager les joueurs dulcimer à l'intermédiaire de niveau avancé pour jouer la façon ' bonne '. Cet ouvrage vous pouvez enseigner plusieurs techniques de base, simples créer la sensation de la musique traditionnelle irlandaise. / Dulcimer

Bluegrass on Hammered Dulcimer is a collection of tunes commonly found in the standard bluegrass repertoire. Favorite vocal pieces such as 'A Man of Constant Sorrow ' 'Angel Band ' 'Keep on the Sunny Side ' and 'Will the Circlebe Unbroken ' are included along side hot instrumentals such as 'Jerusalem Ridge ' 'Rawhide ' 'Big Mon ' and 'Blue Grass Stomp.' Even traditional tunes that you think you know already such as 'Bill Cheatham ' 'Farewell toWhiskey ' 'Forked Deer ' and 'Salty Dog' are given a new twist when presented as a typical bluegrass 'break.' Intermediate players and above will enjoy the challenge of learning more complicated versions of common tunes andperforming them at the high-speed tempo that is expected in bluegrass music. Players are encouraged to use these examples of bluegrass breaks merely as a starting point. Improvisation is a key component in playing bluegrass styleand players will enjoy experimenting with their own creations. Each tune has guitar chords notated above the music staff. Standard notation only.

Beginning and Intermediate players who have developed a repertoire of melodies will be walked step by step through the process of arranging their tunes. Lessons provide a detailed explanation and numerous examples of root positionchords and their inversions on the 12-11 and larger sized hammered dulcimer. Simple tunes are provided for the reader to incorporate newly acquired knowledge of chord theory. Descriptions of bounces triplets doubling countermelodies arpeggios scale runs extended chords etc. are included as well as opportunities to create arrangements utilizing these techniques.