Folk Music at Weatherbury Farm: Weeklong Advanced Beginning Mountain Dulcimer Workshop with Bill Schilling

Starting in DAA and working into DAD along with some side trips to DAC and DAG for that haunting minor mode, we will work with melody playing, simple chord backup, combining melodies and chords, solo playing, group playing, and singing accompaniment. Our repertoire will include many songs commonly played by dulcimer clubs and in jams with some other tunes and songs thrown in for special reasons. There will be help with and ideas about tuning and finding the best playing position for you and many helpful hints about and techniques for using and caring for your instrument along the way. We will use written music and a variety of tab as well as playing by ear to help students prepare for different playing situations. Some loaner mountain dulcimers will be available

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