Dirt Simple Hammered Dulcimer Hammered Dulcimer - Digital Sheet Music
The title says it all: Dirt Simple. This book and accompanying online audio are designed for a rank beginner who knows nothing about the hammered dulcimer, providing them the tools to make music right away. Starting with the fundamentals of how to hold hammers and tune the instrument, it delves deeper into mastery with posture, stand height/angle, and replacing strings to set up the beginner for a lifetime of good habits. Every concept introduced is simultaneously presented with illustrations and songs that demonstrate and reinforce. Whether the student reads music or plays by ear, the result is the same - music making right from the beginning. Dr. Mark Alan Wade is an experienced teacher with an undergraduate degree in music education and years of public school teaching experience. Now teaching music theory and dulcimer at Denison University, Dr. Wade offers a unique perspective on teaching hammered dulcimer and has three students who have also won the National Hammered Dulcimer Contest as evidence of his master teaching. Its all about the music. Dirt Simple Hammered Dulcimer is written so that the carefully selected tunes are the true teacher. Hands-on learning is made easy with the accompanying audio. Each song is played slowly for students to learn by ear in addition to reading notation. This also allows for the students to hear style traits such as swing, that arent easily conveyed in written notation. With 29 songs, this book and online audio available for download are a years worth of private lessons in one concise package.
Details
Summary
- Instrument:
- Hammered Dulcimer
- Publishers:
- Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music
- ISBN:
- 9781619114326
- EAN:
- 1619114321
- Format:
- Book and Digital Audio
- Item types:
- Digital
- Instructionals:
- Methods and More Music Theory
- Level:
- Beginning Intermediate
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Size:
- 8.75 x 11.75 inches
Detailed Description
SKU: M0.30361BCDEB
Composed by Mark Alan Wade. Dulcimer: Hammered, Dulcimer , Folk, Children, Method. Dirt Simple. Chords/Theory. Book and online audio. Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music #30361BCDEB. Published by Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music (M0.30361BCDEB).ISBN 9781619114326. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
The title says it all: Dirt Simple. This book and accompanying online audio are designed for a rank beginner who knows nothing about the hammered dulcimer, providing them the tools to make music right away. Starting with the fundamentals of how to hold hammers and tune the instrument, it delves deeper into mastery with posture, stand height/angle, and replacing strings to set up the beginner for a lifetime of good habits. Every concept introduced is simultaneously presented with illustrations and songs that demonstrate and reinforce. Whether the student reads music or plays by ear, the result is the same - music making right from the beginning. Dr. Mark Alan Wade is an experienced teacher with an undergraduate degree in music education and years of public school teaching experience. Now teaching music theory and dulcimer at Denison University, Dr. Wade offers a unique perspective on teaching hammered dulcimer and has three students who have also won the National Hammered Dulcimer Contest as evidence of his master teaching. Its all about the music. Dirt Simple Hammered Dulcimer is written so that the carefully selected tunes are the true teacher. Hands-on learning is made easy with the accompanying audio. Each song is played slowly for students to learn by ear in addition to reading notation. This also allows for the students to hear style traits such as swing, that arent easily conveyed in written notation. With 29 songs, this book and online audio available for download are a years worth of private lessons in one concise package.
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Song List
Tuning Accessories and Hammers
Hammers
Replacement Strings and Kit
Tuning Your Dulcimer
Final Tuning Tips
How to Care For Your Dulcimer
Replacing Strings
When to Replace Them
How to Replace Strings
Stand Height and Angle
Hammer Grip
Ready to Play!
Imaginary Scale Boxes
Finding the Notes in the Key of D
Finding Note Names On Paper
Notes on Lines
Notes on Spaces
Finding The Note Names On Your Dulcimer
Review: D Scale Box and Its Notation
Rhythm Notation Explained
Note Durations
Other Notation
Rests
Counting Rhythms
16th Notes and Triplets
Mixed Rhythms
Other Meters
Rhythm and Hammer Lead
What We Can Learn From Percussionists
What I Teach and Why: Dominant Hand Lead
Dominant Hand Lead24
Practice Examples
Dotted Notes
Quick Tips To Easy Dominant Hand Lead
Your First Notes!
Boil dem Cabbage
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Shortenin Bread
Soldier’s Joy
Cripple Creek
Tips to Learning Tunes Faster
Recognizing Patterns
Cincinnati Hornpipe
Exploring the Upper D Scale
Right Hand Right Side / Left Hand Left Side
Golden Slippers in Upper D
Golden Slippers in Middle D
Hand Independence
Spring, from Four Seasons
Woodchopper’s Reel
Pentatonic Scales
Amazing Grace
Angeline The Baker
Redwing
Midnight On The Water
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
Boys Of Bluehill
Liberty Reel
New Note: Cn
Old Joe Clark
Chanter’s Tune
Tunes in the Key of G
G Major Scale Box
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Right Hand / Right Side Rule Review
Gallopede
Syncopation
Stone’s Rag
Cold Frosty Morning
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Leather Britches
Notation Versus Tradition
Silver Spear
Repetition
Arkansas Traveler
Flop-Eared Mule
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