Group Discussions
Cheap Trick on Dulcimer
I first heard this song in college, and I've always found it catchy. Plus, I've always enjoyed being able to ask, "Would you like to hear a...
@Sam Edelston started 6 years ago - replies: 3
Punk dulcimer - I Wanna Be Sedated
In a Facebook group, somebody's phone said "Sedated," instead of the word he intended to use. (My phone comes with that convenient auto-sabotage...
@Sam Edelston started 6 years ago - replies: 6
Good Girls Don't. (But I do. On a dulcimer.)
This song popped into my head a couple of weeks ago, and it seemed like something that might work on dulcimer. Sure enough ... The Knack's classic...
@Sam Edelston started 9 years ago - replies: 0
Hemingway's Whiskey
We are called Seldom The Same, both for our rotating cast of players and our tendency to not play anything quite the same way twice. Lead singer...
@Tom McDonald started 8 years ago - replies: 0
"The Toy Song" (musical mashup)
A friend and I created this musical collision of Chuck Berry and Tom Paxton when we were randomly paired together for an event called "Duet...
@Sam Edelston started 6 years ago - replies: 0
Billy Joel cover -- "You May Be Right"
Yesterday, this song wasn't in my repertoire. But I quoted a couple of lines from it in a Facebook post, and somebody asked me if I had a video...
@Sam Edelston started 6 years ago - replies: 3
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 6 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 9 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 years ago - replies: 1