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MOUNTAIN DULCIMER PLAYERS

Lesson Skills

Mountain Dulcimer: D-A-A Tuning D-A-d Tuning

In this fine tune we explore playing in a linear (up and down the fretboard) or flatpicking (across the strings) in two different tunings.  The tune also challenges us by ending on the IV chord, rather than at home!

1. D-A-A Tuning
   
   Video Demos
   • Drone, Part A
   • Drone, Part B
     
   • Chords
     

   Tablature

   • High Octave (Linear)
   • Lower Octave (Flatpicked)

   Animations

   • High Octave (Linear), Part A
   • High Octave (Linear), Part B
   • Lower Octave (Flatpicked), Part A
   • Lower Octave (Flatpicked), Part A
     
     
2. D-A-d Tuning
   
   
Video Demos
• Drone, Part A
• Drone, Part B
• Flatpick - Hammer On, Pull Off
• Chords
  

Tablature
• High Octave (Linear)
• High Octave (Flatpicked)
• Lower Octave (Flatpicked)
  
  
Animations
• High Octave (Linear), Part A
• High Octave (Linear), Part B
• Lower Octave (Flatpicked), Part A
• Lower Octave (Flatpicked), Part B
  

3. The story behind Wind That Shakes the Barley
   
   
4. I always enjoy hearing young people play the tunes that we struggle to learn. Get familiar with the melody as Martin plays it on the fiddle.
   
   
5. Enjoy the harmonies as this tune is performed Dancing Willow, an Irish folk band from Münster, Germany.
   
   
6. MP3 rhythm back-up tracks

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