Folk
Notes Music Books
Hammered
Dulcimer Instruction and Song Books
First Lessons
Hammered Dulcimer
by Linda G. Thomas
First Lessons Hammered Dulcimer was written for beginning players. The melodies in this collection include hymns, holiday music and fiddle tunes written in standard notation, with instructions on how to read the notation. Lyrics and suggested chords for accompanying instruments are also included. The accompanying CD offers two tracks for each selection: a performance track and an instructional track with detailed phrase-by-phrase demonstration. The guided audio instruction at a slow tempo will prove invaluable for the "by ear" player. This method provides a "private lesson" approach for success on the hammered dulcimer.
$7.95 - Book and CD
Songs: All Through the Night, The Ash Grove, Away in a Manger, Children's Song of the Nativity, The Girl I Left Behind Me, In the Garden, Silent Night, St. Anne's Reel, Sweet By and By, Sweet Hour of Prayer
Arranging for Hammered
Dulcimer
by Jeanne Page
Hammered
Dulcimer Chords
by Jeanne Page
This book was written to aid the dulcimer player in playing as a backup musician. It provides the tools necessary for musicians who are seeking to go beyond simple melody lines. The majority of chords diagrammed are those most commonly used, and those whose notes are clustered on the instrument in six familiar shapes. Diagrams are shown for the 15/14 dulcimer.
$12.95 - Hammered Dulcimer Chords
You Can Teach
Yourself Hammered
Dulcimer by Madeline MacNeil
Every aspect of the hammered dulcimer and its playing techniques is covered in this comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand text. A masterful teacher, Madeline MacNeil exceeds the expectations of a beginner's book, providing a firm foundation for the development of a total musician while maintaining an engaging, informal tone throughout. With detailed discussions on dulcimer layout, hammers, tuning, and stands plus extensive performance notes on every tune, this book is a valuable asset to the beginning through intermediate player. All tunes are in standard notation with additional notes and helpful illustrations. Available as: Book & CD package or DVD video.
Book and CD - $19.95
DVD Video - $13.95
Songs: Are You Sleeping?, O Susanna, Golden Slippers, Home On The Range, Arkansas Traveler, Liberty, Harvest Home, Annie Laurie, No Place Like Home, Deck The Halls, Auld Lang Syne, My Own House, The Lark In The Clear Air, Amazing Grace, Off To California, Soldier's Joy, The Parting Glass, Star Of The County Down, Simple Gifts, Flop-Eared Mule, Over The Waterfall, The Ash Grove, Planxty Fanny Po'er, The Hundred Pipers, Santa Lucia, Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
Shall We
Gather
Hymns Arranged for Hammered Dulcimer
by Madeline MacNeil
The majority of these tunes can be played on a 12/11-course hammered dulcimer Many of these arrangements provide a harmony part that may be performed on another instrument such as the flute, guitar, bowed psaltery, or mountain dulcimer. Written in standard notation only with complete lyrics and suggested chord changes.
$14.75 - Shall We Gather
Songs: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God; All Beautiful the March of Days; Amazing Grace; Be Thou My Vision; Come, Thou Font of Every Blessing; Evening Hymns; For the Beauty of the Earth; He Leadeth Me; Here I Am, Lord; How Great Thou Art; In the Garden; Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee; O Sacred Head, Now Wounded; Praise the Lord, God's Glories Show; Shall We Gather at the River; Sweet Hour of Prayer; We Gather Together; What a Friend We Have in Jesus; What Wondrous Love is This; When Peace, Like a River
Hammered
Fiddle Tunes
by Rick Thum
A collection of some of the most popular traditional American fiddle tunes arranged for the 12/11 hammered dulcimer. Embellishment techniques are taught using drones, chords, and syncopation. A working knowledge of the hammered dulcimer is helpful in learning the techniques in this book. Written in standard notation. Great performance CD with all songs.
$23.95
Book/CD - Hammered Fiddle Tunes
Book only $9.95
The Hammered
Dulcimer
Treasury of Tunes
arranged by Sally
Hawley
Walking
Stones
by Ken
Kolodner
First Lessons
Hammered Dulcimerby Linda G. Thomas
First Lessons Hammered Dulcimer was written for beginning players. The melodies in this collection include hymns, holiday music and fiddle tunes written in standard notation, with instructions on how to read the notation. Lyrics and suggested chords for accompanying instruments are also included. The accompanying CD offers two tracks for each selection: a performance track and an instructional track with detailed phrase-by-phrase demonstration. The guided audio instruction at a slow tempo will prove invaluable for the "by ear" player. This method provides a "private lesson" approach for success on the hammered dulcimer.
$7.95 - Book and CDSongs: All Through the Night, The Ash Grove, Away in a Manger, Children's Song of the Nativity, The Girl I Left Behind Me, In the Garden, Silent Night, St. Anne's Reel, Sweet By and By, Sweet Hour of Prayer
Arranging for Hammered
Dulcimerby Jeanne Page
Beginning and
Intermediate players who have developed a repertoire of melodies will
be walked step by step through the process of arranging their tunes.
Lessons provide a detailed explanation and numerous examples of root
position chords and their inversions on the 12-11 and larger sized
hammered dulcimer. Simple tunes are provided for the reader to
incorporate newly acquired knowledge of chord theory. Descriptions of
bounces, triplets, doubling, counter melodies, arpeggios, scale runs,
extended chords, etc. are included as well as opportunities to create
arrangements utilizing these techniques.
Arranging for Hammered Dulcimer
- $14.95
| Lesson
1-Root Position Chords Lesson 2-More Root Position Chords Lesson 3-One More Right Flag Root Lesson 4-Adding Root Position Chords to Melody Line Lesson 5-"Flipping" Root Position Chords Lesson 6-Rolling Chords in a New Song Lesson 7-First Inversions Lesson 8-Second Inversions Lesson 9-A New Tune |
Lesson
10 - Irish Jigs Lesson 11 - Hornpipes Lesson 12 - Reels Lesson 13 - More Fills Lesson 14 - Counter Melodies Lesson 15 - Using Your Bass Bridge Lesson 16 - Four Note Chords Lesson 17 - Chord Experimentation Lesson 18-The Rules/ Break the Rules/Make New Rules |
Hammered
Dulcimer Chordsby Jeanne Page
This book was written to aid the dulcimer player in playing as a backup musician. It provides the tools necessary for musicians who are seeking to go beyond simple melody lines. The majority of chords diagrammed are those most commonly used, and those whose notes are clustered on the instrument in six familiar shapes. Diagrams are shown for the 15/14 dulcimer.
$12.95 - Hammered Dulcimer Chords| All
12 Keys: Dominant Sevenths All 12 Keys: Major Triads |
All
12 Keys: Minor Sevenths All 12 Keys: Minor Triads |
You Can Teach
Yourself HammeredDulcimer by Madeline MacNeil
Every aspect of the hammered dulcimer and its playing techniques is covered in this comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand text. A masterful teacher, Madeline MacNeil exceeds the expectations of a beginner's book, providing a firm foundation for the development of a total musician while maintaining an engaging, informal tone throughout. With detailed discussions on dulcimer layout, hammers, tuning, and stands plus extensive performance notes on every tune, this book is a valuable asset to the beginning through intermediate player. All tunes are in standard notation with additional notes and helpful illustrations. Available as: Book & CD package or DVD video.
Book and CD - $19.95DVD Video - $13.95Songs: Are You Sleeping?, O Susanna, Golden Slippers, Home On The Range, Arkansas Traveler, Liberty, Harvest Home, Annie Laurie, No Place Like Home, Deck The Halls, Auld Lang Syne, My Own House, The Lark In The Clear Air, Amazing Grace, Off To California, Soldier's Joy, The Parting Glass, Star Of The County Down, Simple Gifts, Flop-Eared Mule, Over The Waterfall, The Ash Grove, Planxty Fanny Po'er, The Hundred Pipers, Santa Lucia, Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
Shall We
GatherHymns Arranged for Hammered Dulcimer
by Madeline MacNeil
The majority of these tunes can be played on a 12/11-course hammered dulcimer Many of these arrangements provide a harmony part that may be performed on another instrument such as the flute, guitar, bowed psaltery, or mountain dulcimer. Written in standard notation only with complete lyrics and suggested chord changes.
$14.75 - Shall We GatherSongs: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God; All Beautiful the March of Days; Amazing Grace; Be Thou My Vision; Come, Thou Font of Every Blessing; Evening Hymns; For the Beauty of the Earth; He Leadeth Me; Here I Am, Lord; How Great Thou Art; In the Garden; Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee; O Sacred Head, Now Wounded; Praise the Lord, God's Glories Show; Shall We Gather at the River; Sweet Hour of Prayer; We Gather Together; What a Friend We Have in Jesus; What Wondrous Love is This; When Peace, Like a River
Hammered
Fiddle TunesA collection of some of the most popular traditional American fiddle tunes arranged for the 12/11 hammered dulcimer. Embellishment techniques are taught using drones, chords, and syncopation. A working knowledge of the hammered dulcimer is helpful in learning the techniques in this book. Written in standard notation. Great performance CD with all songs.
$23.95
Book/CD - Hammered Fiddle TunesBook only $9.95
Songs:
Blackberry
Blossoms,
Circle be
Unbroken, Country Dance, Flop Eared Mule, Golden Slippers, Home Sweet
Home, Liberty, Missouri, Old Joe Clark, Petite Valse, Ragtime Annie,
Seneca Square Dance, Soldier's Joy, The Meeting House, Whiskey Before
Breakfast
The Hammered
DulcimerTreasury of Tunes
This collection of hammered dulcimer tunes
brings together
over 225 old-time and Celtic tunes that are commonly heard
at old-time music gatherings. This is music that has been passed
down orally, or learned by ear instrumentally, from
countries where many of our ancestors originated. Trying to separate
American and Celtic traditional music is an impossible task, as so many
of the tunes we consider our own are adapted versions of tunes passed
on to us from other countries. This
book therefore features favorite selections from both American and
Celtic traditions. These arrangements are written in
standard notation with chord symbols.
Hammered
Dulcimer Treasury of Tunes - $25.00
There are too many
tunes in this book for us to even begin to display them here. You
can click on this link to Mel Bay and view them there. Treasury
Tunes Songs Link will open in new window.
Walking
StonesMost of
the tunes in this
book
are
written as simple melodic lines with
suggested chords rather than as more complete arrangements with harmony
lines and variations. By contrast, on the companion "Walking Stones"
CD, considerable freedom is taken with both the melody and its
harmonization, encouraging the listener to explore the tunes to create
their own arrangements and variations in the celtic tradition. Most of the arrangements can be played
on a 12/11 dulcimer. A few
songs
require a 15/14 dulcimer to play as written.
Songs:
Bee's
Wing
Hornpipe, Bornish
Polka, Carolan's Draught, Caspian
Lake, Cuckoo's Nest, Dances Des Foins,Farrel O'cara, Father
Kelly's, Green Gates, Ian Robertson, Kevin Keegan's
Waltz, Lad O'bierne's, Loudens Bonnie Woods And Braes, Louis Waltz,
Mist Covered
Mountain, Pierrot
N'as Pas De Culotte, Princess
Beatrice - "Slow Air, Princess Beatrice Hornpipe, Rakes Of Kildare,
Reel Beatrice, Richard
Dwyer's, Silver Spire, Tam Lin, The Border
Crossing, The
Clock Waltz, The Home Ruler, The Panhandle, The Queen's Polka, Tom
Morrison's, Walking Stones