How to welcome a new jammer
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Took me a while longer to give up on group playing. Having gone through the DAd can't play with DAA lecture from a member of the group I used to go to, I hear you. Of course, my response to the individual was to inform her of certain facts, i.e. that I was playing the same blasted notes in DAA that she was in DAd. That's when I got the chords sound better routine. ARGH!!!!!!!!
Speed of play was also a problem for me. When ever the music got too fast, "Why does it always become a race?", I'd turn my dulcimer over and drum. Usually the group stopped playing when at least half of the players were drumming, so I wasn't alone in not caring for the speed. Songs like "Simple Gifts" shouldn't be hurried, but played to a singing speed not a gallop.
So, now, as stay at home player, I enjoy the music I prefer. The only way I'd join a jam is with a shaker egg.
Thanna said:
Justreturned from my first - and very likely my last - jam with the local dulcimer club and wish I'd printed this out to take with me. I just endured a 2 hour lecture on why I should play DAD, why I should chord and how I need to play without a noter. To say that I didn't feel welcome would have been an understatement. I left at the lunch break because I'd had enough.
Sad because I felt pretty good about my ability to keep up with the music itself.
Back to playing for my own enjoyment!
or minor repairs, you might as well 
it 
! 
etc done to your new baby, just ship it over here, I am ready, willing and able to help 
. Of course, it may be some time before you get it back, what with me being old and slow 
, and the instrument having to be played in an all 
. lol
And I want to hear her play that Ledford! 
, there's no need to get heavy 
, but it was played in commiseration with Dana's 'Lack of a Ledford' 
. ( Robin, ain't you glad you know someone of her distinction, 
If he takes down Dirge for Dana, we just might have to head across the ocean-- we can either fly
--and persuade him
to put it back up. 
