Mel Bay

Author: Madeline MacNeil
Format: Book with Audio/Video Online
Instrumentation: Dulcimer
Skill Level: Beginning

Madeline MacNeil's performances are characterized by her effortless vocals and impeccable mountain and hammered dulcimer playing. In this book she reveals some of the secrets of her success with the mountain dulcimer. Early on, she reminds the reader that the dulcimer is not a toy or a stringed kazoo but a serious, expressive musical instrument capable of stretching as far as the imagination. She endorses both playing by ear and learning to read standard notation. In easily-understood language she manages to explore some very complex, even esoteric concepts, making this a particularly valuable book for the beginning instrumentalist.

You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer is simply a great fundamental book. Twelve intensive lessons in 95 pages with arrangements in both DAA and DAD tuning. Standard notation and tablature. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Now with online Audio and Video download available.

Song List:

• Ah Poor Bird, Hey Ho, Rose Red
• Amazing Grace
• Arkansas Traveller
• Au Clair De La Lune
• Away In A Manger
• Boil That Cabbage Down
• Bonnie Tyneside - Arr. Seth Austen
• Country Gardens
• Cripple Creek
• Down In The Valley
• Flop Eared Mule - Arr. Lorraine Lee
• Goin To Boston
• Golden Slippers
• Greensleeves
• Harvest Home - Arr. Seth Austen
• Home On The Range
• John Brown's Dream
• Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming
• Ode To Joy - Ludwig Van Beethoven
• Oh, Susanna - Stephen Foster
• Shady Grove - Stephen Foster
• She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain - Stephen Foster
• Simple Gifts - Stephen Foster
• Soldiers Joy - Stephen Foster
• The Ash Grove - Stephen Foster
• The Willow Song - Stephen Foster
• Waterbound - Stephen Foster
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Stephen Foster
• Whiskey Before Breakfast - Stephen Foster