Free Dulcimer Lesson | Easily Play With Other Instruments
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- This week we’ll use a capo to play along with other instruments! You can do it. Have fun!
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Wow 1.5 frett in the key of A on dulcimers without 1.5 . Thank you my dulcimer friend ❤🎶
Thank you so much for these free lessons. I have wanted to play the auto harp and a dulcimer all my life and just never did and now I’m going to buy one the pretty ones that you have of your website. Wish me luck keep the free lessons coming. God bless you honey. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
I have some theory under my belt because I used to plunk a little on mandolin and bass when I was a kid, and I worked as a singer in bands for over 4 years.
I don't know the Nashville numbering system but Jazz players, and others, also use a numbering system. Looks to me like it's the same, from what I'm seeing you do here. A 1 4 5 progression in C would be C F & G7.
I just started learning about Dulcimers yesterday because someone I know has one and is bringing it here for me to see.
I'm planning on getting a Dulcimer now that I've found so much info on them and for sure will make sure it has the 6 1/2 fret.
You were a huge help in teaching me a lot of basics I'll need to know when he gets here with his cardboard (Yes cardboard!) dulcimer. (I saw the basics on your own channel.)
Thank you so much for your knowledge!
Good explanation!
Thank you! I play with other instruments a lot, so I hope this helps people realize it’s not difficult to do.
@@BanjoLemonade My favorite jams are getting to play with any combo of fiddles, mandolins, guitars, and banjos! Great back-up piano is wonderful, too. I love playing in G, A, and some Em, and almost always use a capo because I don’t want to have to account for the “opens”. That slows me down and the older I get the slower I get. Based on how it has worked for me thus far my suggestion to now-slower senior MD players is to use a capo if you want to keep up. I do drop out of the jam when they play in Bb or F: I only have a low Bb and Eb on account of my 1/2 fret. Sometimes that works okay playing across the strings, but often an octave up is needed. Not a tragedy if I can’t do it since I’m mainly playing oldtime fiddle tunes. Still, I’m hoping Santa will send me additional frets.
@@dulcimama - If you have more than one dulcimer, I’d keep one in an alternate tuning for that. Like EAA for the key of F or something where you capo 1. Just a thought, but I know Joni Mitchell is said to have used over 50 different tunings playing dulcimer. We tend to normally play in G, A, C, or D for the most part which I’ll sometimes play uncapo’d as well (I have a 1.5 fret).
@@BanjoLemonade Thanks for this good idea! 50? EEK! 🤣 I don’t know exactly why, but I’ve resisted getting a chromatic dulcimer. You will think that’s silly when I tell you I have these extra frets: 1/2, 1 1/2, 6 1/2, 8 1/2, 10 1/2, and 13 1/2. I know, I know, I’m almost there! 🙄
@@dulcimama -why resist? More dulcimers is always a good thing in my book. Haha. I have a cardboard chromatic that I’m starting to work with. Someday I’ll get a wood one, but no extra frets to all frets - I’m game. Haha. Have fun with it!
What is the brand of your black dulcimer?