6 String Dulcimer Too Much For Me
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Brad Richard:
Thanks for all your replies. Dusty, that's kind of how I've been doing it. I think I've got most of the chords I need mapped out.
Ken - I'm still a little confused. I understand about letting the other strings hummm along, but what happens when you change to a different chord in a progression, like G-C-D-G?
You don't have chords in the usual sense. You have "drone chords" -- the desired note on the melody string plus whatever the drones are tuned to...for example:
Dulcimer tuned to DAA, major scale starts on melody string 3rd fret: D4, E4,F4, G4, A4, B4, c5, d5. If you also strum the drone strings you get the following "drone chords":
D3..E4..F4..G4..A4..B4..c5..d5
A3..A3..A3..A3..A3..A3..A3..A3
D4..D4..D4..D4..D4..D4..D4..D4