Group Discussions
Katy Perry cover: "Never Really Over"
I heard this song on the radio recently and knew I had to learn it. Katy Perry's current hit, "Never Really Over." Amusingly, my computer's...
@Sam Edelston started 5 years ago - replies: 3
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper cover
Made a new attempt at this song, previous one was a couple of years ago and in key of D....different key and chord choices this time around. The...
@Janene Millen started 8 years ago - replies: 3
Ooo-eee-oo-ah-ah...
I was at a festival where Gary Sager was vending, and saw this baby dulcimer on the table. I played a few bars of this song -- the most logical...
@Sam Edelston started 5 years ago - replies: 3
Born to Run - chromatic bari - in concert
I grew up musically in an organization called the Folk Project, an all-instrument (but dulcimer-friendly) New Jersey-based crowd. Twice a year,...
@Sam Edelston started 5 years ago - replies: 7
Shake, Rattle, and Roll (and Strum!)
For the past month, I had temporary use of a solidbody electric dulcimer. Here it is in the spotlight, playing the song that was a 1954 hit for...
@Sam Edelston started 5 years ago - replies: 2
Wild Thing - on 5 electric dulcimers
I'll admit it. I took the world's simplest song, and made it so complicated that it took me a week to figure out how to play. For years, I've...
@Sam Edelston started 5 years ago - replies: 4
Love the One You're With
This one's so easy, anyone can play it. Stephen Stills classic, "Love the One You're With." Considering that he plays it in a dulcimer tuning...
@Sam Edelston started 5 years ago - replies: 0
Heavy metal dulcimer - War Pigs
Black Sabbath's 1970 classic, "War Pigs," on solo electric dulcimer. Chromatic, stereo electric dulcimer built by Rod Matheson tuned DAD,...
@Sam Edelston started 5 years ago - replies: 0
Sweet Caroline -- on a sweet, new dulcimer
I think this is one of the few popular songs I actually knew in the '60s. Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" (which supposedly was inspired by a...
@Sam Edelston started 5 years ago - replies: 2
Middle-eastern mode?
Hello, all! Is there a tuning or capo-ing that would put the dulcimer into a middle-eastern scale of any sort?
@Rachael started 6 years ago - replies: 5
Chromatic dulcimer: David Bowie's "Space Oddity"
I bought a new reverb pedal recently, and messing around with it, this song kept sounding great with it. Classic by David Bowie, "Space Oddity,"...
@Sam Edelston started 6 years ago - replies: 0
On Stage At Leo Coffeehouse, Cincinnati
Our short set as "Seldom the Same" at the Queen City Balladeers, November 11, 2018. I'm on harmonica, and playing an Ed Weiss dulcimer borrowed...
@Tom McDonald started 6 years ago - replies: 1
Sweet Child Of Mine
I was noodling around one day, and stumbled into the 1st verse of Guns N Roses' "Sweet Child Of Mine". After some work, I feel like a got a pretty...
@YeahSureOK started 6 years ago - replies: 2
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Hank Williams cover on McSpadden Mountain dulcimer D-A-D 1+ fret. A little impromptu instr break in the middle I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
@Janene Millen started 6 years ago - replies: 1
La Vie En Rose
French song made famous by Edith Piaf. French and English verse sung using a McSpadden Ginger dulcimer tuned to D#-A#-D#. Been a fan since the...
@Janene Millen started 8 years ago - replies: 4
The Log Driver's Waltz written by Wade Hemsworth
Here is a Canadian Folk song that I have enjoyed for many years. The National Film Board of Canada produced a humorous animated short about this...
@Gordon Hardy started 8 years ago - replies: 2
On Stage at Pattyfest 2018
Here's a link to Jim Fawcett's great video of part of my performance at Pattyfest 2018 in Fairmont, WV. Some of these are in the public domain...
@Rob N Lackey started 6 years ago - replies: 1
Tulsa Time
Here's my somewhat wartz'n'all version of an old J J Cale classic!
@Rob N Lackey started 6 years ago - replies: 8
Queen on chromatic MD ... '39
Probably inspired by the fact that I had tickets to see a Queen tribute band last night, last week I decided to learn a song from their album, "A...
@Sam Edelston started 6 years ago - replies: 2
Spring Wartz'n'All 2018
Here's a little video our "official" videographer took. Hope you enjoy it.
@Rob N Lackey started 6 years ago - replies: 6