Complete Childrens Dulcimer Method Book

Product Number: 20249 
ISBN: 078666732X 
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc. 
Difficulty Level: Beginning 
Format: Book

This outstanding children's method for mountain dulcimer is the result of the author's many years of sharing the dulcimer with children, and has been successful with children as young as 5 years old. This single volume combines the best material from the author's two previous volumes, Children's Dulcimer Method Volumes One and Two. In it you will find many traditional songs and folk tunes arranged for the mountain dulcimer. Each song has a simple strum pattern indicated above it with fret numbers for the melody notes and lyrics included where appropriate. There are instructions for strumming, chording, fingerpicking, and for three modal tunings (Ionian, Aeolian, and Mixolydian). Harmony is included for many of the songs, so that two or more dulcimers can play together.

CONTENTS

Dedication
Credits
About the Author
Instrument Photography
Table of Contents
Preface
Getting Started
Using the Pick and Noter
Tuning to the Ionian Mode
Learning to Play
Ionian Mode Songs
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
I See the Moon
The Milk Maid
Love Somebody
Your Horses Are Hungry
The Juniper Tree
Learning to Strum
Skip to My Lou
Poor Jenny
Cripple Creek
Boil Them Cabbage Down
    Harmony
Wildwood Flower
Deep Blue Sea
    Harmony
Waterbound
    Harmony
Mary Wore Her Red Dress
Good Bye Little Bonnie
    Harmony
Frog Went A-Courtin'
The Paw Paw Patch
Old Dan Tucker
Banks of the Ohio
    Harmony
What'll I Do with the Baby-O?
Flop Eared Mule
Green Corn
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Simple Gifts
    Harmony
Learning to Pick Out Tunes
Chords
Chords for Smaller Hands
Chords for Larger Hands
This Little Light of Mine
    Harmony
I Gave My Love a Cherry
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Buffalo Gals
Soldier, Soldier
Handsome Molly
Good Old Colony Days
    Harmony
All Through the Night
At the Foot of Yonder Mountain
In and Out the Window
Polly Wolly Doodle
    Harmony
When I Was Single
Jim-Along Josie
Fire's Burning
Go to Joan Glover
The Aeolian Mode
Aeolian Mode Songs
Shady Grove
Wayfarin' Stranger
Lord Lovel
    Harmony
Star of the County Down
Sally in the Garden
Where Does It Lead?
Tarrier Song
    Harmony
Old Man at the Mill
    Harmony
Scarborough Fair
The Twa Sisters
Tuning to the Mixolydian Mode
Mixolydian Mode Songs
Old Joe Clark
    Harmony
O, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
Harrison Town
    Harmony
Over the Waterfall
    Harmony
Cedar Mountain
    Harmony
Goin' to Boston
    Harmony
Soldier's Joy
Fingerpicking
Postscript