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Lullabye of Muffe

The Lullabye of Muffe is a terrific tune for working on the skills of hand separation and hand independence for hammered dulcimer players. Steve Eulberg teaches this lesson series in the hammered dulcimer skills section of dulcimercrossing.com

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Joy to the World

by Linda Ratcliff A holiday season favorite (sometimes listed as an Advent tune, and often as a Christmas tune), Linda leads us through an arrangement for playing on the Hammered Dulcimer.

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Children's Song of the Nativity

Our guest instructor, Linda Thomas, shares one of the beautiful tunes from her collection An Old English Christmas, published by Mel Bay in this 16-episode lesson series. Here is a demonstration of the tune.

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June Apple

Linda Thomas, from Kansas City, teaches this fun modal tune for Hammered Dulcimer Players!


She is accompanied by her favorite guitarist, Dan Delancey.  Together they give a fine demonstration of the fun that a mixolydian tune can be on the dulcimer.  Then Linda teaches the tune and how to play back-up chords in an 11-episode lesson set.


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Standard Definition Now an Option!

We have sought to provide the highest quality video in the lessons that we prepare for the dulcimercrossing.com site.

While traveling across the country and talking with several subscribers, however, Steve has heard stories from patient (as well as frustrated) subscribers whose internet connections will not permit the videos to load in a timely manner.

With the project of re-rending all of the videos on our site and moving them to a new host, we have uncovered a solution that is helping these subs…

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Last Day to Sign up and Save!

Back2SchoolSpecialGraphicToday is the final day of our Back-To-School-Special, which saves you $21 off of our regular low rate of 67¢ a day for full access, all of the time to all of our lessons!

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Evart Hammered Dulcimer Jam in the Teacher's Tent!

by Steve Eulberg The Evart Funfest which happens in the 3rd week of July in the heart of Osceola County, Michigan, gathers amazing musicians. Under the teacher's tent, by John and Sharon Skaryd's camper, there are day and night-long jams and fun conversations, both vocal and musical!  Here DeeDee Tibbits, Linda Foley (both from Michigan) and Chuck Boody (from Minnesota) are leading this celtic-style tune while others are also welcomed in.

I just played with DeeDee at the Kentucky Music …

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Odd Meters

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ClubFootedJibby Steve Eulberg Playing traditional instruments in the western world, we get quite used to "square" or "even" rhythms and meters in the songs we play. Marches and Reels are in (4/4) time; Polkas are in (2/2 or 4/4).  Even jigs (6/8) have 2 pulses in their measures.  Waltzes (3/4) have a strong beat on 1.  Slides (12/8 or 6/8) and Slip Jigs (9/8) have multiple pulses in their measures, but what all of these tunes tend to have in common is that they have a regular way to be counted based on the t…

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DulcimerCrossing Festival Scholarships

by Steve Eulberg & Linda Ratcliff

At DulcimerCrossing.com we believe in supporting all the ways that students learn to play the music that is in their hearts.  Some people learn better in the privacy of their homes, some with an individual tutor, and some learn best when immersed in a setting that is chock-FULL of music, with people who are engaged in the same pursuit as they are.

For this reason, DulcimerCrossing has provided some full and partial scholarships to selected weekend and week-long du…

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