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Eos, Another Fingerstyle Lesson for Mountain Dulcimer

By Linda Ratcliff



Eos is an original tune by Steve Eulberg. Eos is the goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, and Steve named this tune Eos because he wrote the tune early in the morning. This tune is played fingerstyle, and the lesson is best suited for intermediate to advanced students.



Here Steve plays through the tune for us.





Look at the free overview of this Fingerstyle Lesson here. Remember that members have ALL the ACCESS to ALL the lessons, ALL the time!



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Moderato in C

by Linda Ratcliff


Moderato in C was written by Fernando Sor for classical guitarists.


However, the exercise lends itself very well to the mountain dulcimer in the D-A-d tuning or you can retune your dulcimer to C-G-c to keep the piece in its original key.


Watch the intro and demonstration below:





This tune will make a great warm-up exercise for your routine.


Demo the whole lesson series here.


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Funeral March of a Marionette-New DAC Lesson

DulcimerCrossing is excited to announce a brand-new fingertyle lesson for advanced players in the DAC tuning on a standard mountain dulcimer.



"We are excited to be offering this lesson in DAC tuning, which helps people expand both their skills and their repertoire," Eulberg said from his studio. "In addition, this arrangement requires some specific skills that put it in the advance category."


Charles Gounod (1817-1893)


This tune was composed by the French com…

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HYFRYDOL, new Mountain Dulcimer Lesson by Karen Mueller

by Steve Eulberg


Across many Christian worship traditions, tunes from Welsh composers are favorites. The Ash Grove comes to mind, but from my survey, when researching and writing my book Dulcimer-Friendly Worship, Vol 1: the season of Advent, the tune that won the popularity contest of being the setting for so many hymns in so many ecumenical traditions is HYRFRYDOL by Rowland Prichard.


We are excited that our instructor, Karen Mueller, has provided us with both a strummed AND a …

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30 Days of Dulcimer Joy

If you practice correctly from the beginning, you will save yourself a lot
of time and frustration later on.  Don't practice bad habits.
— MusicNotes



30 Days of Dulcimer Joy with Steve Eulberg





We are excited to let you know about a new Master Class thatSteve Eulberg developed for Mountain Dulcimer players.



30 Days of Dulcimer Joy is a systematic approach, using progressive fingering patterns, in exercises to develop:



  • Confidence
  • Accuracy
  • Dexterity
  • Arranging

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31 Days to Fingerstyle Mastery

by Steve Eulberg



Hi folks! This post is music-related but not dulcimer-specific.



I have had a Patreon Project going since January of 2015.



This fall I decided that I wanted to put together some one-month class offerings that would let people take a single class with daily lessons to work on a specific skill, figuring that if it takes 21 days to set a habit, in 31 days we galvanize it!





So, today I launched my first class: 31 Days to Fingerstyle Mastery (this focuses on 6-String Guitar,…

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I Wonder as I Wander (DAC) by Steve Eulberg

Steve Eulberg has long been taken by this traditional American tune from Appalachia, collected and added to by John Jacob Niles. Here Steve introduces the tune and tells the story and describes how to tune for the Aeolian mode, in which this tune resides.

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Lauda for Mary Maddalena by Neal Hellman

Neal Hellman has been quite taken with these beautiful Italian tunes written in praise of Mary and shares with us the tune and his arrangement for Lauda di Maria Maddlena. Here Neal demonstrates the tune:

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Playing Expressively

Nina Zanetti's 12 episode lesson set on playing expressively has all kinds of nuggets in it for musicians of every kind. Her specific instructions and suggestions apply to the mountain dulcimer, but are applicable if one is a singer, or hammered dulcimer or harmonica player. Check out the introduction to the series:

The rest of the series is available at dulcimercrossing.com. Just sign up and you can see them all!

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Harmonics Lesson by Nina Zanetti

You know those beautiful chiming sounds that you hear on recordings or watch people play on the mountain dulcimer?  Those are called harmonics and, when you know where and how to play them, they can be part of your toolkit for playing the mountain dulcimer, too.

Nina Zanetti, 2008 National Mountain Dulcimer Champion and DulcimerCrossing Instructor, is known for her lyrical instrumental finger-style arrangements of classical and celtic tunes. In this 20-episode lesson set, Nina explains …

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