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What's your favorite mournful, spooky, or lonesome song to play?
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Don’t know if it’s quite what you mean, but I love “oh Come, oh come Immanuel” - mournful but hopeful all at once
Your Three Favorite Songs
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
My top 3 are:
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (same tune as “the waters wide” and the other traditional one)
Jesus, Lover of My Soul (by Paul Oakley)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (cant play this one satisfactorily yet...)
What’s your favourite playing style and why?
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Thanks for your replies folks, really interesting mix of styles and approaches! Sorry I’ve not replied earlier, I’ve been building my second dulcimer - a 20”vsl elliptical design. After a bit of tweaking with the tuning it now sounds lovely and bright!
I love the versatility of the dulcimer and I’m beginning to understand that different songs work better with different styles (fingerpicked, strum and drones etc)
Tabs or Tutorials for Jigs and Reels
Dulcimer Resources:TABS/Books/websites/DVDs
Hi I’d love to try out playing some Jigs or Reels on my dulcimer - problem is I don’t know many! (Aside from Swallowtail Jig and Arkansas Traveller)
Does anyone know any relatively simple but fun ones to play? Tabs or video tutorials would be great!
Online Advent Calendar
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Sounds like a wonderful idea!
Is there a required skill level for players to be at? I’ve only been playing less than a year?
What happens if/when there are more recordings than days in advent?
How to change my profile picture?
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Hi all, how do I change my account picture?
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What’s your favourite playing style and why?
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Hi all, I discovered the mountain dulcimer last year whilst building a cigar box guitar. In March I built myself a 26” scale length box dulcimer but only really started playing it about a month or two ago. I’m loving the ease in which you can play chord melody and the beauty of the sound that the instrument makes (even my rudimental one)! The simplicity and beauty of the instrument has made it a real joy to have discovered!
I play a bunch of other instruments (guitar, bass, ukulele, learning the fiddle) and my main go-to style wise is playing the chords and melody together, finger picking almost exclusively. Occaionsally I throw in a claw hammer bum-ditty for variance.
Being from the uk I don’t really know any classic US bluegrass style tunes (although I’ve learnt Wild Rose and Arkansas traveller, I’d like to learn more) so I mostly stick to hymns,carols and other Worship songs. !
I was wondering what style everyone else prefers, particularly what the appeal is for noted/drone style? Because I’m interested and it’s so unusual to me.
updated by @tatts: 10/27/19 12:02:25PM