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What Are All These Numbers in Music?

WhatAreAlltheNumbersinMusic

Here is the handout I promised during today's Live Stream on Facebook. (These happen weekly on Wednesdays at 9 am MST)

WhatAreAlltheNumbersinMusic

Click on the image above to download and save this pdf reference.

Have fun!

(Remember we don't w*o*r*k music, we PLAY music!)

Steve Eulberg

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New Chromatic Dulcimer Lesson

by Steve Eulberg Our instructor, Erin Mae Lewis, has a new lesson series for Chromatic Mountain Dulcimer, using the familiar fiddle tune, Soldier's Joy as example to demonstrate how to play this tune in several keys!

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Chord Wizard Tool

by Steve Eulberg

Have you ever wondered how to find a particular chord you are looking for?  You might be familiar with a couple of fingerings for your favorite chords, but then there is that "weird" one that the music calls for and your musical chord theory is a bit rusty.

This one is for you!  Tom Strothers has created this interactive webpage as tools to help mountain dulcimer players.

Diatonic Chord Wizard This page has an interactive Fret Finder Tool, below which is a tool to find the notes on…

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Chords on Chromatic by Erin Mae Lewis

Erin Mae Lewis Finding and Building chords on a Chromatic Dulcimer. In her chromatic lessons series, Erin, shows how she maps out and builds chords, both the I-IV-V chords for playing progressions, but also the rich chord additions (minors, 7ths, major 7ths, minor 7ths and 6ths, diminished, suspended and augmented)   [Note: this lesson uses both Diatonic and Chromatic Fret Numbers] Here Erin introduces the lessons:

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