Mel Bay

Author: Madeline MacNeil
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Mountain Dulcimer

Melodies on the mountain dulcimer are wonderful. In this book, we'll explore how to decorate melodies with chords to add variety and creativity to your playing in DAD and DAA tunings. Lessons begin with simple chords and show you when and how to progress. In addition, we'll study how to play backup chords on our dulcimers for accompaniment in gatherings and jam sessions. Includes access to online audio.

Contents:

• Musical Notes for Playing Chords (DAD, DAA)
• More Chords (DAD, DAA)
• Practicing Chords, DAD Tunes
• Practicing Chords, DAA Tunes
• Chord Chart for DAA Tuning
• Chord Chart for DAD Tuning
• Backup Chords (DAD, DAA)
• DAD and DAA Tunings in Harmony
• Boil That Cabbage Down (DAD)
• Boil That Cabbage Down (DAA)
• Brahm's Lullaby (DAD)
• Cockels and Mussels, Basic Harmony (DAD)
• Cockels and Mussels, Fancy Harmony (DAD)
• Down by the Salley Gardens (DAA)
• Down in the Valley (DAA)
• Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes (DAD)
• Loch Lomond (DAA)
• Lodging on the Cold Ground (DAD, DAA)
• Love Is Little (DAD, DAA)
• May Day Carol (DAD)
• Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (DAD, DAA)
• Mississippi Sawyer (DAD)
• My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (DAA)
• Ode to Joy (DAD, DAA)
• Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening (DAD)
• Simple Gifts (DAA)
• Skip to My Lou (DAD)
• Southwind (DAA)
• Tombigbee Waltz (DAD)
• West Virginia Waltz (DAA)
• Wildwood Flower (DAD)