I can’t believe how in depth you went with this tutorial! Thank you for that. I tried another tutorial forever ago but she had a fully diatonic dulcimer and it kept messing me up because I have the extra frets like you do! Great work on this.
This is totally great! I have a question, im new to the dulcimer and trying to figure out how the 3-0-3, 2-0-2 etc on the video correlates to the frets you are pressing on the dulcimer. I noticed that when its 3-0-3 you have your fingers on the third fret, and same with 2-0-2 you have it on the second. But on 9-0-9 it looks like you have your fingers on the 11th fret...? What am I missing
Hey Fredrik! I'm so happy you asked this question, it's a super valid one! Here's my explanation: Although it's logically the 11th fret, it's considered to be the 9th because the dulcimer is a diatonic instrument, meaning the frets go up a scale, not chromatically (hence the uneven frets; whole step=wide fret, half step=narrow fret). I have two "extra" half-step frets on my dulcimer (1 1/2 and 6 1/2) that lie outside of that diatonic, major scale. So really, this particular dulcimer has two frets that "shouldn't" be there; the 2nd fret (1 1/2) and the 7th fret (6 1/2). I opted to use the "proper" labeling because this is how tabs will be presented generally, but it does take some understanding of the instrument. You'll see I didn't do this in my "Case of You" tutorial; That dulcimer only has one "extra" fret (the 6 1/2), but I still called that one "7". Feel free to let me know which one makes more sense to you, I'd love the feedback!
@@HelenaHallbergmusic Wow yes, that toally makes sense now :) Both makes sense now that you've explained the concept with the extra frets. You see, I have barely any theoretical music knowledge, I just tried to translate the numbers shown on the tabs over to the number of frets without even thinking about scales or anything. I can see the dulcimer I got is the same type as the one in 'case of you'. Thanks a lot for replying :)
Like your upbeat and encouraging nature.
Lovely. Your voice ❤
I can’t believe how in depth you went with this tutorial! Thank you for that. I tried another tutorial forever ago but she had a fully diatonic dulcimer and it kept messing me up because I have the extra frets like you do! Great work on this.
One of my fav tunes to play! 💜🎶
Thank you so much for the tuning lesson! It was driving me crazy 😆 of course I should have known that Joni tuned it differently.
Great video! I retuned my guitar and had the do the finger spacing a bit differently, but it worked for me!
Interesting. I think I'll try that, too.
I loved your voice, you go so high so gracefully, u should do the whole song I'd love to hear it ❤️
beautifull thanks for good lessons
This is fun, wish I was a Soprano !
Nice job. Hey I have a dulcimer with the same sound holes. I'm guessing they are both by the same maker. I'll check to see if there's a label on it...
This is totally great! I have a question, im new to the dulcimer and trying to figure out how the 3-0-3, 2-0-2 etc on the video correlates to the frets you are pressing on the dulcimer. I noticed that when its 3-0-3 you have your fingers on the third fret, and same with 2-0-2 you have it on the second. But on 9-0-9 it looks like you have your fingers on the 11th fret...? What am I missing
Hey Fredrik! I'm so happy you asked this question, it's a super valid one! Here's my explanation:
Although it's logically the 11th fret, it's considered to be the 9th because the dulcimer is a diatonic instrument, meaning the frets go up a scale, not chromatically (hence the uneven frets; whole step=wide fret, half step=narrow fret).
I have two "extra" half-step frets on my dulcimer (1 1/2 and 6 1/2) that lie outside of that diatonic, major scale. So really, this particular dulcimer has two frets that "shouldn't" be there; the 2nd fret (1 1/2) and the 7th fret (6 1/2).
I opted to use the "proper" labeling because this is how tabs will be presented generally, but it does take some understanding of the instrument.
You'll see I didn't do this in my "Case of You" tutorial; That dulcimer only has one "extra" fret (the 6 1/2), but I still called that one "7".
Feel free to let me know which one makes more sense to you, I'd love the feedback!
@@HelenaHallbergmusic Wow yes, that toally makes sense now :) Both makes sense now that you've explained the concept with the extra frets. You see, I have barely any theoretical music knowledge, I just tried to translate the numbers shown on the tabs over to the number of frets without even thinking about scales or anything. I can see the dulcimer I got is the same type as the one in 'case of you'. Thanks a lot for replying :)
where can i get that same dulcimer model you have?
This is a @FolkcraftInstrumentsSince1968 instrument!
This one was built custom for me, but they have lots of great models. Highly recommend :-)
what the hell, I've never seen that instrument.
But it's never too late to learn something new 😉
I can’t find good piano music for this.
Wow! You look like Joni Mitchell
This doesn’t help pianists at all.