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.
