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Simply RememberedSimply Remembered

by Maureen Sellers

One of the "Simply" series, for novice to intermediate level players. 25 old-time songs arranged for mountain dulcimer. All songs are in DAD tuning, some capo required. Standard notation and tablature, lyrics, and chords. Also includes author's notes about each song. 58 pages.

$12.00 - Simply Remembered

Billy Boy, Amazing Grace,Oh Bury Me Not, Camptown Races,Boil Them Cabbage,Chiny Doll, Columbus Stockade Blues, Down in the Valley, Fiddle-i-fee, Gospel Ship, Kum-Ba-Yah, Streets of Loredo, Liza Jane,Wildwood Flower, Old Joe Clark, On Top of Old Smokey, Pappy's Billy Goat, The Riddle Song, Sail Away Ladies,Soldier's Joy, Southwind, Spotted Pony, Go Down Moses, Will Ye Nae Come Back Again?, Will Ye Go, Lassie Go?



My Teaching Book 1My Teaching Book for
 Appalachian Dulcimer
 by Maureen Sellers
 
Instructional text for beginning mountain dulcimer. Includes information on tuning, buying a dulcimer, chords, mnemonics (word clues) for timing help, basic music theory, strumming, beginning fingerpicking and flatpicking, and more. Contains 27 songs for beginners in DAD tuning. Standard notation and tablature with lyrics and chords.  A good source of standard dulcimer repertoire for beginning players.

Songs: Amazing Grace, Billy Boy, Boil Them Cabbage, Camptown Races, Chiny Doll, Cripple Creek, Do Lord, Fiddle-i-fee, Friendly Beasts, Gray Cat, Harrison Town, Holy Manna, Hush, Little Baby, Kum-Ba-Yah, Liza Jane, Mississippi Sawyer, Oh! Suzanna, Old Chisholm Trail, Old Joe Clark, On Top of Old Smoky, Soldier's Joy, Spotted Pony, Susanna Gal, Twinkle Waltz, Waterbound, When the Saints Go Marching In, Wildwood Flower
My Teaching Book One - $12.00
 
My Teaching Book Companion CD - $12.00



My Teaching Book for
 Appalachian Dulcimer Vol 2
 
by Maureen Sellers
 
Volume Two includes chord charts, jamming tips, memorization techniques, using a capo, chord arpeggiation, tips for singing and playing, as well as fingerpicked and flatpicked arrangements.  Contains 27 more songs in a variety of styles. DAD tuning

My Teaching Book Two - $12.00

Songs: Barbary Ellen, Boil Them Cabbage, Bury Me Beneath The Willow, Crawdad Song, Cumberland Gap, Down In The Valley, Froggie Went A-Courtin', Hog-eye, I've Been Workin' On The Railroad, It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane, Little Rosewood Casket, Liza Up In The 'Simmon Tree, My Dear Old Buffalo Boy, Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, Ol' Coon Dog, Old Folks At Home, Pretty Little Devilish Mary, Redwing, Sally Ann, Sandy River Belle, Shady Grove, She'll Be Comin' 'Round The Mountain, Skip To My Lou, Swanee River, There's A Hole In The Bucket, Ting-A-Lay-O


Simply Duets

Simply Duets
by Maureen Sellers

In this book you will find: Some songs with melody and harmony, Some with melody, harmony and arpeggiating (fingerpicking), Some songs with a 'call and response', Chords to back up a melody, Chords in three positions on the fretboard, Chop chords, Chord runs, Arpeggiated chords, Chord progressions, Diamond chords, Pentatonic Scales, Cheating off the Guitar player, Singing and playing, DAD tuning

Simply Duets - $20.00

Auld Lang Syne Aura Lee New River Train
Blessed Quietness Blind Mary Ode To Joy
Chord Back Up, Styles Chord D-A-D Paper Of Pins
Fingerpicking & Arpeggiating Chord In Three Areas Playing With Others
Chord Progression Chord Runs Sabbath Home
Chord Shape Finder Dixie Shenandoah
Down In the Valley Key of D Down In the Valley Key of G Soul's Sweet Home
Down In the Willow Garden Down The Brae Southwind
Fire Song Get Up And Bar the Door Spanish Is A Loving Tongue
Goin' Home Good Old Man There's A Hole In The Bucket
Guitar/Dulcimer Chords I'll Give My Love An Apple There's A Long, Long Trail
I've Got Peace Like A River Jesus, Won't You Come By Here? There's More Pretty Girls
Lavender's Blue Lavender's Blue Arpeggiated True Lover's Farewell
Midnight Garden My Dear Old Buffalo Boy Waltzing Matilda

Water Is Wide Where Will I Shelter My Sheep?
 



Simply Gospel1
Simply Gospel Book One
by Maureen Sellers

One of the "Simply" series, for novice to intermediate level players. A collection of spirituals, hymns, and old-time gospel songs. All songs are in DAD tuning,some capo required. Standard notation and tablature, lyrics, and chords. Also includes author's notes about each song. 54 pages.

$12.00 - Simply Gospel Book One

Almost Persuaded, Angel Band, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Blessed Assurance, Do Lord Do Remember Me, Go Down Moses, The Hallelujah Side, Happy Land, The Haven of Rest, I Feel Like Traveling On, In the Bleak Midwinter, Angels Hovering Round, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Jesus Won't You Come By Here?, We're Floating Down the Stream of Time, The Lily of the Valley, There Is A Balm In Gilead, Where We'll Never Grow Old, There's A Land That Is Fairer Than Day, This World Is Not My Home, Sweet Hour of Prayer, What A Friend We Have In Jesus, When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder, This Is My Father's World


Simply Gospel2
Simply Gospel Book Two
by Maureen Sellers


One of the "Simply" series, for novice to intermediate level players. A collection of spirituals, hymns, and old-time gospel songs. All songs are in DAD tuning, some capo required. Standard notation and tablature, lyrics, and chords. Also includes author's notes about each song. 58 pages.

$12.00 - Simply Gospel Book Two

At the Cross, Down Came An Angel, Have Thine Own Way, Lord!, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, Holy Manna, In the Garden, I Shall Not Be Moved, I Will Arise and Go To Jesus, Jacob's Ladder, Just As I Am, Life's Railway to Heaven, Little Moses, Love Lifted Me, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Old-Time Religion, Rock of Ages, The Royal Telephone, Send the Light, Shall We Gather at the River?, Shout On Pray On, Steal Away, The Unclouded Day, Were You There?, Where the Soul of Man Never Dies



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Simply Gospel Book Three
by Maureen Sellers


One of the "Simply" series, for novice to intermediate level players. A collection of spirituals, hymns, and old-time gospel songs. All songs are in DAD tuning,some capo required. Standard notation and tablature, lyrics, and chords. Also includes author's notes about each song. 50 pages.

$12.00 - Simply Gospel Book Three

Anchored in Jesus, Are You Washed in the Blood?, Blessed Quietness, Church in the Wildwood, The Comforter Has Come, Give Me the Roses Now, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, Glory Glory, Going Over Jordan, Holy Holy Holy, I Believe in Being Ready, I Must Tell Jesus, Jesus Is Calling (Softly and Tenderly), Jesus Loves Me, I've Got Peace Like A River, Just Over in the Glory Land, My Wedding Prayer, Pass Me Not, There is a Fountain, Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Melody), Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Harmony), The Promised Land, Who Will Be the Driver?, Nothing but the Blood


Simply ChristmasSimply Christmas by Maureen Sellers

One of the "Simply" series, for beginning to intermediate players. A large collection of traditional christmas songs, many in several arrangements.  All in DAD tuning, this book has capoed, fingerpicked, high, and low versions of some tunes. Standard notation and tablature, lyrics, and chords.   Also includes author's notes about each song.

 $15.00 - Simply Christmas

SONG LIST / CONTENTS
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance Tune, Angels We Have Heard On High , Auld Lang Syne, Away In A Manger—Low Version, Away In A Manger– High Version, Away In A Manger– Cradle Song, Away In A Manger– Cradle Song– Harmony, Breakin’ Up Christmas, Child of God, Brightest and Best, Children Go Where I Send Thee, Friendly Beasts, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, The First Noel, Good King Wenceslas– Noter Version, Good King Wenceslas– Chordal style, Go Tell It On The Mountain, Here We Come A-Wassailing, The Holly Bears A Berry, Hush, My Babe, In The Bleak Midwinter, In The Bleak Midwinter– fingerpicked, I Wonder As I Wander– Capo Version, I Wonder As I Wander– Low Version– No Capo, I Wonder As I Wander– High Version– No Capo, In The Valley (In Juda’s Land), Jingle Bells, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, Lo How A Rose E‘er Blooming, My Dreydl, Now Is Born The Divine Christ Child, O Holy Night, Silent Night– fingerpicked, Silent Night– Chordal style, Silent Night– Harmony, Still, Still, Still, Up On The Housetop, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Wind Through The Olive Trees


Songs of the Civil War

by Maureen Sellers
Songs about slavery, abolition, the confederacy, marches, and songs to commemorate the fallen and wounded.  Novice level and beyond.  All songs are in DAD tuning, some capo required.  Standard notation and tablature, lyrics, and chords. Also includes author's notes about each song. 57 pages

Songs of the Civil War - $12.00

     
Aura Lee
Battle Cry of Freedom
Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Bonnie Blue Flag
Darling Nelly Gray
Dixie
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Johnny Is Gone For A Soldier
Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo)
Lincoln and Liberty
Lorena
Lula Is Gone
Marching Through Georgia
My Old Kentucky Home
Never Forget the Dear Ones
Richmond Is A Hard Road To Travel
Somebody's Darling
The Southern Soldier Boy
Tenting Tonight
The Vacant Chair
Wait for the Wagon
When Johnny Comes Marching Home


Fretboard Companion Book
by Maureen Sellers

Just 3" tall by 11" long, this book is designed to lie next to a mountain dulcimer fretboard. This book contains 17 songs and two pages of chord charts.  DAd tuning.

$5.00 - Fretboard Companion

Amazing Grace, Angeline the Baker, Cripple Creek, Goin' to Boston, Harrison Town, Liza Jane, New River Train, Old Joe Clark, Old-Time Religion, Red River Valley, Short'nin Bread, Soldier's Joy, Spotted Pony, Susanna Gal, Waterbound, Weeping Willow, Wildwood Flower


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