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Dan Landrum

   Thinking musically with thoughtless hammering - Adv 

Hammering is more like bouncing a basketball than pounding in a nail.   We explore how to get energy, motion, and force working in your favor as we learn the most basic - and most important, fundamental rudiments. 

 

   Exercises for practicing your way to proficiency - Int 

Putting the rudiments into practice - your practice; we’ll learn expandable exercise patterns' based on the fundamental rudiments.

 

   Diddles and double stroke rudiments - Adv

The key to ornamentation, left/right coordination, and speed

 

Cliff Cole

   Alternating Base Workshop - Adv

We will delve heavily into the alternating base sound where you play the base note with the right

and the melody on the left

 

   Let’s Go O’Carolan - Int

An exploration of the music of Turlough O’Carolan:  A little history and a chance to learn a

new tune or two or three…

 

   Open Jam – All levels

                All instruments welcome… tunes played up to speed

 

Donna Missigman

   How to Use a Fake Book - Int

Fake Books are in melody line with chords format only.  That's a great way to buy music but we need to know what chords to use and what stylistic nuances to add to make that melody line into a completed piece of music.  We'll look at several different Fake Books and play with different ideas to make them work for us.

 

   Chords and How to Use Them - Beg

We'll explore some common chords, learn how to find them on our dulcimers, and learn which of the notes we need the most and which are expendable.

 

   The Music of J. Scott Skinner - The Strathspey King - Adv

J. Scott Skinner was a key figure in Scottish fiddle music and he took those tunes to a new level of performance.  Skinner wrote the tunes in The Harp and Claymore, a wealth of Scottish music.  Tricky dance rhythms and beautiful melodies make Skinner's music beautiful on hammered dulcimer.

 

Rich Carty

   Learning by patterns - Beg

Learn a really cool tune by seeing, hearing, & feeling chord, melodic, & hammering patterns.
 

   Tuning - beyond turning the pin & watching the meter - Beg/Nov
                This workshop will cover tuning sequences, techniques, your tuning problems, & more.

 

   Tasteful embellishments - Nov

We'll use "Jesus Loves Me" to learn embellishments & dynamics.

 

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