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Have a Blessed Thanksgiving

by Linda Ratcliff
Your Thanksgiving dinner will not be complete without sharing these jokes!

What kind of music did the Pilgrims like? Plymouth Rock! Why did the guys let the sweet potato join the band? So they could have a yam session! What is the most musical part of the turkey? The drumsticks!
 
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, I have almost too many blessings to count. Being able to work with all of you who love dulcimers, and having the opportunity to share my thoughts abou…

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New Fiddle Lesson!

by Steve Eulberg

Vi Wickam has created a new Fiddle Lesson for the Scottish tune Miss McLeod's Reel.  that he and I like to play in our duo Fiddle Whamdiddle.  I have already created a mountain dulcimer lesson in the Galax style for this tune on DulcimerCrossing here.

You can also watch a couple of versions of this tune below:

Steve & Vi playing a hammered dulcimer and fiddle duet at the former Caffe Olé in Fort Collins, Colorado: (under the title "Have You Ever Gone to Meeting, Uncle Joe?" filmed …

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Habits Announcement (Ends 9/30/18)

"Hi, this is Steve Eulberg with another Habit for Your....

....well, it's not exactly a Habit, it's an announcement: For people who are developing their Habits for a Healthy Music Habitat. My patrons, on Patreon, have been able to support me so that I can finish this collection in a digitized fashion. Southern Harmony shape-note tunes arranged for Mountain Dulcimer Trios. InstaSpecialOffer And what I'm excited about is they were able to do that, and THAT let's me get to work on the NEXT one, which is shap…

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How do I stay Logged In?

by Steve Eulberg At DulcimerCrossing.com we have several FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) to provide a self-service way to gain and retain access to all of the lessons we have filmed and edited for you. One of the most often-asked questions is "How do I move from lesson to lesson without ending up outside of the site?" The video below explains how to do this for all instruments for both Basic (yellow) and Premium (blue) memberships.

We encourage you to visit the FAQ Page to watch the ot…

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Concert Window Highlight: Katie Moritz

by Steve Eulberg

At DulcimerCrossing.com, we love being able to present all kinds of dulcimer performances for our Members.

We finished last month with a concert by 2013 National Hammered Dulcimer Champion Katie Mortiz and her guitar side-kick Skip Siddick.

Here is the Highlight Video she chose and we are excited to share it with you.



Premium Members have access to Live Events like this every month.

Basic Members have access to these Live Events every quarter.

Want to join us, too?

As Katie demonstrate…

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Face Your Fears (at home!)

by Linda Ratcliff

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to CONQUER fear. - Dale Carnegie



Face Your Fears (at home)!
 
It will surely happen eventually if you attend jam sessions.  The lead will go all the way around the circle and finally, to your dismay, it will be your turn.  You try to laugh it off and pass the lead on to the next person in the row, but the others won't hear of it.  They are insisting.  It is your turn to ta…

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Ukrainian Tsimbaly Busker

by Steve Eulberg

Hammered Dulcimer Sighting!

Albrecht-Thietmar Schweidnitz-Schäßburg posted this video of a busker in Ukraine playing the Tsimbaly (the Ukrainian hammered Dulcimer) on the Hammered Dulcimer Players Page on Facebook.

Busking (playing music on the street for tips) happens the world over, AND, people are playing their dulcimers the world over as well!

 

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Try to Make ANYthing that happens...

by Steve Eulberg

...into something of Value."

--Herbie Hancock

Jazz Pianist Herbie Hancock tells a story of something that happened when he played

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a "wrong" chord during Miles Davis' solo.

This video is from Herbie's MasterClass.

This is some GOOD advice for more than just jazz music.  It is for ALL music.

And for life.

(Thanks to Lois Hornbostel for sharing this on Facebook!)

 

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Learn More from Mistakes

by Linda Ratcliff

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. - John Powell






I Learn More from My Mistakes Than Successes. Do You?
 
I love to play through a tune perfectly, time after time, but lets get real - in my world, that simply doesn't happen.  I fail to play a tune perfectly more often than I succeed. But mistakes can be good. In every mistake, there is the potential for growth. They can help me, if I will just take time to do the work.  For example ...

Mistakes help me…

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Learn Something New

by Linda Ratcliff

You will learn something new everyday if you pay attention. - Ray LeBlond



Learn Something New
 
Sometimes the process of learning a new tune is sabotaged before you even begin. You allow a spirit of doom to hang over your head, because you think the piece is too difficult. You might say ...
  • Part B seems complicated, and I'm looking for something easier to learn.
  • This piece is in an odd tuning (like D-G-d), and it's a nightmare to retune.
  • This tune has hammer-ons and hammer…

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