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Oct 30, 2019 03:43pm

By Steve Eulberg

Under chromatic mountain dulcimer, dulci-bro, fiddle, hammered dulcimer, lessons, mountain dulcimer, music theory, subscriber news, dan evans, mixolydian & modes

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Is the Mixolydian Mode a Major Mode?

by Steve Eulberg

Dan Evans, English-dulcimer.com, recently explored this question from his own experience, and posed the question to (3) other professional musicians/scholars of his acquaintance and shared their responses and his conclusions in his blog.

Dan is both a fingerstyle guitarist and a fingerstyle mountain dulcimer player.

Dan plays a standard mountain dulcimer with no 6+ fret.

As you can see here, this is an important question because his instruments do not have a 6+ fret. The o…

Benefits and Limitations of Different Tunings on Mountain Dulcimer? Part 1

by Steve Eulberg

So how does one choose between the benefits and the limitations of different tunings when playing mountain dulcimer? To me the most important factors in this decision are:

1) What kind of dulcimer do I have? Is it "traditional" (with no extra frets like 6-1/2 or 1-1/2)?

2) What kind of music do I want to play?

3) In what style do I want to play this music? Do I want to play in the traditional noter or drone style? Do I want to play back-up chords? Do I want to …

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Is the Mixolydian Mode a Major Mode?

Benefits and Limitations of Different Tunings on Mountain Dulcimer? Part 1

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