Mountain
Dulcimer Styles
and Techniques
Books
Folk
Notes Music
Books
Hands-On
Dulcimer
Developing
Technique
Through
Exercises and Studies
by Mike Casey
This book is designed to help fretted dulcimer players at all
levels
grow in their technical abilities by developing strength,
precision,
control and flexibility in both the right and left hands. Exercises
explore
flatpicking, fingerpicking, slurs, chords, strumming, left hand
precision and placement, right hand strength and control, volume, tone,
articulation, and more using both dulcimer tablature and standard music
notation. In this book, Mike has used ideas drawn from classical guitar
study plus years of teaching dulcimer to develop exercises that will
inspire and challenge players at all levels. The tunes and exercises
are in the common dulcimer tuning of D-A-D, with a few exceptions. Some
exercises are included for the four-string and five-string dulcimers,
and a 6+ fret is required. The accompanying CD demonstrates key
exercises and most of the tunes in the book. 176 pages
$22.95 - Hands On Book
and CD -
Tunes combining flatpicking and
chords - The First Noel, The South Wind, Loch Lomond, The
Languor of Love
Old Time Fiddle Tunes - Old
Molly Hare, Shooting Creek, Sally in the Garden
Fingerpicking - The
South
Wind, Megan's Daughter, The Munster Buttermilk
Challenging Pieces - The Scotch Cap,
Harvest
Home
Four and Five-String Arrangements - The
Ash
Grove, The South Wind, Grace Nugent

Fingerpicking
Dulcimer by Janita
Baker
A collection of
21
songs arranged in a fingerpicking style for the
mountain dulcimer, this book offers a wide variety of musical genres
and playing levels. Divided equally between arrangements for three and
four equidistant strings, the songs progress in difficulty within each
section from beginner to advanced level. Each piece is written in both
standard music notation and dulcimer tablature, and is accompanied by
performance tips for playing that song. Many arrangements utilize the 6
1/2 fret, and tunings range from standard modal tunings to four-string
variations. The arrangements cover a wide range of song styles
including traditional ragtime, blues, and classical standards. There is
an extensive introduction on playing
techniques for both left and right hands, tunings, reading tablature,
and dulcimer embellishments. The accompanying CD is an instrumental
recording of solo dulcimer, designed to give the student a
note-for-note reference to each written arrangement while providing a
performance-quality listening experience.
Fingerpicking
Dulcimer BCD - $21.95 
| Three
String |
Four
String |
| In Christ There Is No East or
West |
Greensleeves |
| House of the Rising Sun |
Andante |
| Country Gardens |
Für Elise |
| Londonderry Air |
My Old Kentucky Home |
| Ode to Joy |
Aura Lee |
| Grandfather's Clock |
Rondo |
| All Through the Night |
Careless Love |
| Trumpet Voluntary |
Bink's Waltz |
| Medley: The Minstrel
Boy/Scotland the Brave |
The Entertainer |
| Spanish Fandango |
The Ragtime Dance |
| Minuet in G Major |
The Old Piano Roll Blues |

Playing
Dulcimer in the Chord
Melody Style
by Rosamond
Campbell
This
book teaches beginning and advanced techniques for enhancing your
fingerpicking
skills. Rosamond
Campbell's chord-melody style is much more than fingerpicking
arpeggiated chords in various patterns. It uses lots of drags, brushes,
broken pinches, slow drags, and held notes, and combines them with
hammers, pulls, slides, steps, arpeggios, and other techniques
that can enrich the texture of the music and make your playing more
interesting. This book's emphasis is on beautiful playing from the
start. If you've done a little fingerpicking or
chordal playing, this book will enlarge your musical landscape with
techniques to improve your skills and unfold the gifts you already
have. Written for a three-string dulcimer
with a 6+ fret. DAA, DAC, and DAD. All
25 songs are on the CD..
Dulcimer Chord/Melody Book and CD - $22.95 
Unit 1: Uncomplicated And Comfortable Music
DAA:Cotton-Eye Joe, Kum Ba Ya, Deep Blue Sea, Lewis Bridal Song
(Mairi's Wedding), Henry Martin (DAD, Capo at 4)
Unit 2: Somewhat Harder Music Wayfaring Stranger (DAC),
Whoop!
Do Me No Harm, Good Man (DAD), Jog On, Jog On The Footpath Way (DAA),
In The Pines, Theme And Three Variations (DAD), O, Sally My Dear (DAC)
Unit 3: More Challenging Music My Carnal Life I Will Lay
Down
(DAD, Capo at 1), Blow Thy Horn, Hunter (DAD), Poor Rosy (DAD), I Have
Waked The Winter's Nights (DAC), King Lear And His Three Daughters (DAD)
Unit 4: Rather Demanding Music DAD:Willie Has Gone To The
War,
Searching For Lambs, Rosalie the Prairie Flower, He Comes Down Our
Alley, Eulalie (DAD, Capo
at 3)
Unit 5: Wrist-Twisters? DAD:Come
Write
Me Down The Powers Above, Give Me The Roses - D Version, Give Me The
Roses - G Version, Rose Atherton, Carrickfergus, Ah! May The Red Rose
Live Alway! (DAD)
Finger Pickin' Good
by Stephen Seifert
Steve's fingerpicked
arrangements of hymns, old favorites, as well as some Irish melodies
and other tunes. Lyrics included for most of the
songs. Suggested left-hand fingerings for every note. The
accompanying CD includes all arrangements from the book played once as
well as a lesson on Steve's finger picking style. Standard
notation and dulcimer tablature.
Finger Pickin' Good
Book & CD - $20.00 
1. Amazing Grace
2. Beach Spring
3. Beautiful Dreamer
4. Do You Love an Apple
5. Dona Nobis Pacem
6. For the Beauty of the Earth
7. Home Sweet Home
8. Jesus Loves Me
9. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
10. Just as I Am
11. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
12. Morning Has Broken
13. My Old Kentucky Home
14. O, How I Love Jesus
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15.
Old Rosin the Beau
16. On Top of Old Smokey
17. Santa Lucia
18. Sheebeg and Sheemore
19. Shenandoah
20. Silent Night
21. South Wind
22. Sweet Hour of Prayer
23. Foggy Dew
24. The Star-Spangled Banner
25. This is my Father's World
26. Westfalia Waltz
27. When They Ring the Golden Bells
28. Wondrous Love
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Dulcimer Solos by Stephen Seifert
This book has arrangements of
20 fiddle tunes embellished using a variety of different
techniques. Learn how to add variations to your own music by
studying these arrangements and comparing them to unembellished
versions of the tunes. The accompanying CD has each arrangement
at both slow apeed, and full speed. DAd tuning, standard notation
and dulcimer tablature for each tune, and suggested left hand
fingerings throughout.
Dulcimer
Solos - $15 
1.
Angeline the Baker
2. Arkansas Traveler
3. Barlow Knife
4. Bile Them Cabbage Down
5. Cherokee Shuffle
6. Flop-Eared Mule
7. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
8. Forked Deer
9. June Apple
10. Kitchen Girl
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11.
Mississippi Sawyer
12. Old Joe Clark
13. Red Wing
14. Rock the Cradle Joe
15. Saint Anne's Reel
16. Sandy Boys
17. Soldier's Joy
18. Spotted Pony
19. Whiskey Before Breakfast
20. Yellow Rose of Texas
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Dulcimer Chord Book
by Neal
Hellman
Over
500
mountain dulcimer chords for five widely used tunings-- DAD, DAA, DAG,
DAC, and C,G,D--plus jazz(D,A,AD) and
four-string chromatic tunings. Includes an explanation and history of
modes, transpositions, using a capo, playing dulcimer in jam sessions,
and more. Specially sized to fit in instrument case.
Dulcimer Chord Book -
$7.95
Easy
Chord Finder for
The
Mountain Dulcimer
by Bob
Wiesman
Chord reference book for DAD
tuning. Each page shows all possible finger and fret positions
for a given chord, on a fretboard
diagram. Every note that can be used in that chord is
named on the fretboard, so you will learn where all the notes on
the fretboard are as well as finger positions for the chords.
Shows all major, minor, and 7th chords in DAD.
$5.00
- Easy
Chord Finder
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