Thanks John! The last of the lyrics are "ham and cheese, and my cheese cha cha cha" lol. The sheets are just the numbers for "When the Saints Go Marching In" (melody line) and the basic D, G, and A chord numbers, so nothing too mysterious to discover there.

Hi John and Karen, Again I loved listening to "Caddo Parish Dulcimer Workshop". I think the enthusiasm of the leaders and group is great. Being a little hard of hearing I couldn't make out the full lyrics to "Ham & Cheese" espedially the last few words. Could you supply them? I noticed those instruction sheets of music that each person had. Is there any way of getting a copy of that too? Once again thanks for the warmth of your video on a very cold, 2 degrees, above zero here in New England.

Oh...the viking hat (actually a helmet) would be splendid!

Thank y'all so much for the kind words! They worked very hard...they just didn't realize it. Helen, you will know when the time is right. Don't pressure yourself.

Loved the "Ham & Cheese". It makes me hungry for more!

Thanks Mark and Nila...that was a high energy crowd for sure!

Fantastic! What great energy. I hope my first group dulcimer experience is like this.

Big smiles to y'all!

Thanks Rob! I totally understand what you are saying (and just MIGHT be guilty of that at times myself lol), but this was a motivated bunch and a total joy to work with. I really think that we sometimes spend too much time worrying about what might go wrong instead of what we might possibly get right. We started off by explaining that they would probably not master any of this during the actual session and the apprehension just melted away into a really enjoyable experience.

Looks like y'all done really good with them teachers. Years ago I used to teach BASIC language programming (and other computer applications) to teachers. They can be a hard bunch to work with. LOL

Thanks y'all! The cool thing about this is that we spent most of the morning doing other things. We started with noters, then fingers, then chords, a couple of songs ("Saints" and "Twinkle Twinkle..."), and then got around to Ham & Cheese. We use Ham & Cheese as a strum exercise first, and then as a way to learn how to sing and play at the same time. Due to coordination, the constant motion of the strum will usually break down when the singing is added (at first, until much more time on task than what we had). The goal was to get as many tools in the toolbox as possible for them to be able to go home knowing what to work on. Basically, it's the start that Karen and I wish we had gotten when we started. The great thing is that many of these teachers will now share this instrument with the students at their schools. We are extremely proud of them!

Thanks Mike! KK is definitely there. It was an awesome day.

Thanks Patty! We told them that it was actually cabbage...eventually.

Wow! A dulcimer orchestra! I love it!!! You all did awesome!!! Ham and cheese? No cabbage? LOL Well, at least there was no Sp*m