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Learn Something New
by Linda Ratcliff
You will learn something new everyday if you pay attention. - Ray LeBlond
Learn Something New
Sometimes the process of learning a new tune is sabotaged before you even begin. You allow a spirit of doom to hang over your head, because you think the piece is too difficult. You might say ...
- Part B seems complicated, and I'm looking for something easier to learn.
- This piece is in an odd tuning (like D-G-d), and it's a nightmare to retune.
- This tune has hammer-ons and hammer…
Fiddle-Tune-A-Day
by Steve Eulberg
In 2012, my buddy, Vi Wickam began a year-long project of recording a Fiddle Tune every day of the year. An awesome goal...AND in a leap year!
I was privileged to play with him for several of these days.
Here is a gallery of those videos.
Vi has collected the audio of each of these tunes, and is in the process of transcribing them as well.
We have collected and recorded several of these on our FiddleWhamdiddle Recordings:
Old School Old-Time (2012) CD, Download and Book (hard copy a…
In 2012, my buddy, Vi Wickam began a year-long project of recording a Fiddle Tune every day of the year. An awesome goal...AND in a leap year!
I was privileged to play with him for several of these days.
Here is a gallery of those videos.
Vi has collected the audio of each of these tunes, and is in the process of transcribing them as well.
We have collected and recorded several of these on our FiddleWhamdiddle Recordings:
Old School Old-Time (2012) CD, Download and Book (hard copy a…Dulcified & Amplified
by Linda Ratcliff
Your success in learning to play the dulcimer is not something new.
It merely amplifies what was already inside you.
- Linda Ratcliff
Dulcified & Amplified
You’ve been playing your dulcimer for a while now, and you’ve learned how to play several tunes. Your friends have told you that you sound pretty good. So you decided to play at the local nursing home. Afterwards, you thought the mini concert went very well until the seniors gathered around. They thanked you for coming, bu…
Winning at Winfield
by Steve Eulberg
Steve com…
Defining what “winning” means to you is the first step!
For some people the notion of combining “competition” and “dulcimer” is oxymoronic. They just don’t go together!
I see music competitions as an opportunity to prepare some music to share with appreciative listeners. (Where else can you buy such an attentive audience for $.075 a head?—$15 entry fee/200 people)
And, the process of preparing tunes for this kind of presentation is an intensive artistic endeavor!
Steve com…DulcimerCrossing at Summer Festivals
by Steve Eulberg
You can find DulcimerCrossing Faculty teaching at several Dulcimer Festivals this summer!
Erin Mae Lewis (Mountain) will be teaching at Kentucky Music Week (June 24-29) in Bardstown, Kentucky and at Camp Kiya (July 22-26) in Tehachapi, California.
Don Pedi & Steve Eulberg (Mountain) will be teaching at Dulcimer U (July 22-27) at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
Don Pedi (Mountain) will be teaching at the Swannanoa Old-Time Week (July 15-21) Swannanoa, North …
You can find DulcimerCrossing Faculty teaching at several Dulcimer Festivals this summer!
Erin Mae Lewis (Mountain) will be teaching at Kentucky Music Week (June 24-29) in Bardstown, Kentucky and at Camp Kiya (July 22-26) in Tehachapi, California.
Don Pedi & Steve Eulberg (Mountain) will be teaching at Dulcimer U (July 22-27) at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
Don Pedi (Mountain) will be teaching at the Swannanoa Old-Time Week (July 15-21) Swannanoa, North …
Top 10 Tips for Jam Sessions
by Linda Ratcliff
Relax and enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll realize they were the big things. - Kurt Vonnegut
Top Ten Tips for Jam Sessions
i.e. Jam Etiquette
Going to jam sessions can be intimidating. And yet, they can also be the most fun and rewarding music experiences of your dulcimer life. So how can you move past your fears and inhibitions, and just have a great time?
- First of all, tell yourself it’s ok to make mistakes. This is not a performance. You’re just there to…
Live Event Tomorrow Night!
by Steve Eulberg
Matthew Dickerson, our newest Hammered Dulcimer instructor at DulcimerCrossing.com, will be LIVE on Monday, June 4th on Concert Window for a free concert for Subscribers (Join Now!).
8 pm EDT; 7 pm CDT; 6 pm MDT; 5 pm PDT.
You can tune in here.
Watch Matthew's amazing performance of Vangelis' Chariots of Fire at the Original Dulcimer Player's annual Evart FunFest here:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTPIMEJDCIE&w=560&h=315]
Matthew Dickerson, our newest Hammered Dulcimer instructor at DulcimerCrossing.com, will be LIVE on Monday, June 4th on Concert Window for a free concert for Subscribers (Join Now!).
8 pm EDT; 7 pm CDT; 6 pm MDT; 5 pm PDT.
You can tune in here.
Watch Matthew's amazing performance of Vangelis' Chariots of Fire at the Original Dulcimer Player's annual Evart FunFest here:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTPIMEJDCIE&w=560&h=315]
New Hammered Dulcimer Teacher
by Steve Eulberg We are pleased to welcome 2012 National Hammered Dulcimer Champion, Matthew Dickerson, to our roster of instructors at DulcimerCrossing. Matthew introduces himself here:
Matthew joins our faculty of 15 respected and gifted instructors of mountain and hammered dulcimer and fiddle. We are filming and editing his lessons and they will be available for all subscribers on dulcimercrossing.com. Subscribe and you'll have unlimited access to all of his lessons, and those of all…
Make a Goal
by Linda Ratcliff
Make a Goal List in Your Journal ... Every Week
Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines. - Unknown
Make a Goal List in Your Journal ... Every Week
My husband and I recently moved in with my daughter and her family about 4 weeks ago (there are now 7 of us at the dinner table), and she donated her formal dining room for me to set up as my music room. I LOVE it. I have all my instruments set up within easy reach. And as soon as everyone is out of the house, I usually pick up my hammers and practice for a while.
But I…
New Lessons for MD & HD Players
by Linda Ratcliff
I am still learning. - Michelangelo at age 87
New Lessons for MD & HD Players
We have two new lessons at Dulcimer Crossing to offer our hammered dulcimer and mountain dulcimer players.
Peek-A-Boo Waltz for HD, taught by Steve Eulberg
The Peek-A-Boo Waltz is a tune that traveled with the pioneers taking the westward trails going through Kansas City toward the new world. In this video, Steve demonstrates the embellished version of the melody.
Asika Thali for MD, taught by Neal …
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