Traditional mountain dulcimer BEGINNER#2 Strumming
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2010
- For beginners learning to play Appalachian mountain dulcimer in the old traditional style, starting your first strumming pattern. Choosing strum direction and practicing strumming rhythm.
This video is part of my traditional mountain dulcimer noter and drone playing BLOG for beginners:
dulcimer-noter-drone.blogspot...
Come join us as well on Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer , an online community where you can get help and support in learning to play in any style, make new dulcimer friends, and create your very own dulcimer homepage:
fotmd.com/
It's friendly and welcoming, and all free...see you there! :)
-Strumelia - เพลง
Hi glad to see u are still picking got any banjo stuff up here, your devoted fan
I was just given a beautiful dulcimer and had no idea what to do with it--there are no teachers in my area and precious few books on the subject--so your videos are just what I needed! Thanks for being such a great teacher!
Thank you very much! Now I have a starting point. ^^
Your videos are by far the best I've seen on TH-cam!! Thank you so much!!
I bought myself a handmade dulcimer several years ago for my birthday. Decided today to figure it out and your video is just what I needed to get started. Thank you!
Such clear teaching. You're awesome! Thanks!
Thank you, Strumelia! Because of you, I have found the FOTMD community, and I am so excited to begin my dulcimer journey!! :D
Thanks, Strumelia - these lessons are SO helpful! Yeah!
Thank you for teaching us. It is really starting to sound like music.
Thank you very much. :)
I'm left handed but don't bother with a left handed dulcimer. I'm playing it backwards and it's quite fun... once I've got it down I think it will give me a unique style.
That it does Lisa. Some kit dulcimers are quite nice looking and nice sounding instruments. If I had more time in my life, I would try my hand at making a kit dulcimer to say I made one:-)
Thank you so much; your video lessons are super helpful.
You're a great instructor - thanks for sharing!
Hi James, the dulcimer I'm using is just an old 1980's one made from a kit by someone- it was unused for many years and then given to me. It's quite slender and shallow, but sounds kind of pretty.
I'm trying to learn how to play, thank you for the videos.
Just hit 100k views on this dulcimer video. Thanks so much everyone! :D
Hi Cheryl, you don't really need to have a string 'off to the side of the dulcimer'. You can have either three strings, or have 4 strings - with two of them being the close-spaced pair of melody strings that you use your noter on. In other words, the melody string can either be single or double. If double, you treat it as though it was one string.
Please join our online dulcimer community at mountaindulcimer.ning.com -it's a fun place to learn and make dulcimer friends! :)
I enjoyed this very much.
More installments coming soon!
Thank you!!
I love there humor
This is so helpful!!!
Thanks again!
Thank you so much! :)
I recently bought a dulcimer from ebay 15 mintues ago - I won the auction, yay! :D
Your video is helping me a lot on how I should strum. I can't wait to try the bump-diddy; and the shave-and-a hair-cut-two-bits strum. :D
I am curious about how your dulcimer playing has progressed over the year
my dad just got one of these he s I have to watch these before I can even touch it
Thank you for your lessons. I just purchased and this really helps. Is it correct to have 3 strings and one off to the side of the Dulicmer?
yes deezy that's correct.
Just sub I like the way you teach. What type of wood is your dulcimer made of? Thank you for your time. My dulcimer is the same wood an I do not know what it is.
Hello! What kind of pick are you using? I large the larger style. Thanks!
Lisa, thank you for doing this series of videos. What dulcimer are you using in this? James from Everything Dulcimer
is there a specific type of pick to use or can you just use something like a guitar pick?
bunp diddy is 2 strokes in the same direction then 1 in the other?
I have a 6 string dulcimer. How would you suggest it be turned to? I have it tuned top 4 strings to A and bottom 2 strings to D. Is this correct or should the 2 middle strings be turned to something else? I would appreciate any information you can give me. Thank you!
+Sandra Clifton - Sandra, I would suggest joining Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer ( fotmd.com ) and then joining our "^ String Dulcimers" GROUP....especially for helping provide information for 6 string owners! :) fotmd.com/strumelia/group/35/6-string-dulcimers
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Go to my online mountain dulcimer noter-drone BLOG (see link above) and choose "picks" in the right column subject filter- you will find I wrote a lot about kinds of picks to use and the effects they give. thanks!