NGFDA Virtual Fall Festivall 2020 November 19th, 20th & 21st 2020 Listed By Date, Session, Instrument, Level Abbreviations HD-Hammered Dulcimer, MD-Mountain Dulcimer, BP-Bowed Psaltry, AH-Autoharp, PW-Penny Whistle, Uke-Ukelele, All-All Instruments

Sessions are shown: Day (T-Thursday, F-Friday, S-Saturday & Session Number

Levels 1-Beginner, 2-Advanced Beginner, 3-Intermediate, 4-Intermediate Advanced, 5-Advanced, All-All Levels Friday, November 20, 2020 Know your basic chord patterns but not sure how to use them to Playing Backup: Jigs HD Level 4 Friday Session-1 accompany others? In this workshop we’ll focus on some specific ways to Jody Marshall accompany jigs. Have you heard a great new fiddle tune, but don’t have the tab for it? This workshop is for all levels. We will explore a few techniques for No Tab! Learn to Play MD Level 2 Friday Session-1 picking out simple melodies by ear, and how to find them on your That Tune by Ear dulcimer. No tab necessary for this workshop. Carol Crocker Beginners & up. DAD tuning. When playing with others, do you find NEVER “SHAVE” yourself strumming notes early or behind of them? The playing speed is AGAIN - Mountain important, but sometimes extra notes or left-out notes (‘shaving’) occurs. MD Level 2 Friday Session-1 Dulcimer Strumming Lois has a sure-fire way of using consistent strum patterns to fit the with Lois Hornbostel. music and keep you right on track. Includes a strumming diagram and Lois Hornbostel practice piece. “You’ll never shave again!” Mystified by the fingerstyle approach to playing mountain dulcimer? We’ll break it down into three basic skills: right hand technique (how to produce a good tone, how to use different fingers to create patterns, how Fingerpicking Training MD Level 2 Friday Session-1 to bring out the melody notes); left hand technique (smooth chord Wheels transitions); and how to decipher fingerstyle tablature. This brief introduction to the “basics” will prepare you to approach simple Nina Zanetti fingerstyle arrangements with confidence. DAD tuning. Like jigs and reels, hornpipes are one of the main categories of Celtic dance tune rhythms, and they are great fun to play. In this workshop, you’ll learn to flat-pick a number of great hornpipe tunes and develop an Hornpipes for Mountain understanding of “long-short-long-short” that makes a hornpipe a MD Level 3 Friday Session-1 Dulcimer hornpipe. You’ll also learn why the hornpipe is an “endangered species” and how to apply hornpipe rhythm and ornaments appropriately. DGD and DAD; capo required. Bill Collins Praise God with these prayerful and popular hymns. Learn left and right Hymns of Faith hand techniques to improve your playing of both slow and fast songs. MD Level 3 Friday Session-1 (Repeat) Learn how to play slow arpeggios as a way to backup hymns that are Dave Haas played or sung. Build your repertoire of popular hymns. DAD Partner songs with Elaine & Larry Conger featuring parts for standard “Wade in the and bass dulcimer; DAd tuning; capo required. This arrangement Water”/”Motherless cleverly combines two American spirituals into one arrangement. “Wade Child:” A Duet for MD Level 3 Friday Session-1 in the Water” features the standard dulcimer playing the melody while Standard & Bass “Motherless Child” uses the bass dulcimer as the melody. Participants Dulcimer will receive the tab along with an audio reference track to use for Elaine Conger rehearsal purposes. There is something magical about playing in groups - "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts". In this class, we'll learn some Arranging for Groups MD Level 4 Friday Session-1 techniques for creating your own multi-part/ensemble arrangements by Tull Glazener adding bass lines, harmony parts, counter melodies, and more. All levels welcome! Learn to read. tablature for ukulele, and how to play some easy melodies & harmonies. We’ll learn a few tunes with melody and harmony that we will try together - take the parts home to play with Play the Melody! Uke Level 2 Friday Session-1 another ukulele or any other instrument. Every tune will have music notation as well as tablature. Chord diagrams and strum suggestions will be provided for those not quite ready to play the melody. Workshop is Sharrie George for soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles with G-C-E-A tuning Whether you're just starting to play the autoharp or want a refresher course, we'll cover all the essentials to get you started right, including: good ergonomics, tuning, chord bars layouts and substitutions, picks, Sound Beginnings AH Level 1 Friday Session-2 strum (rhythm) patterns, while learning some fun songs as we go. Any standard autoharp is fine. Try to have it tuned ahead of time, and bring Karen Mueller two finger picks and a thumb pick. Tune & Technique "In Learn a beautiful arrangement of a tune by Gordon Lightfoot. The the Early Morning HD Level 3 Friday Session-2 arrangement gives the tune an almost haunting celtic feel. Rain" Guy George Fingerpicking is easy to learn and provides a gentle undulating and flow. Using simple picking patterns you will learn exactly how to arppegiate tunes and chords with a smooth rising and falling turning a simple melody line into a beautiful, expressive, and purely acoustical and Finger Picking So interesting piece. Put your pick aside and let your fingers feel the music. MD All Levels Friday Session-2 Simple You will learn how to make your music reflect emotion and dynamics as well as learn some simple hand exercises to keep your fingers and hands limber and flexible! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUfj0UowF0&feature=emb_logo Brett Ridgeway ALL LEVELS If you are new to playing the dulcimer or new to jamming, come join in Introduction to the fun! We will be learning what it means to “jam”, jam etiquette, basic MD Level 1 Friday Session-2 Jamming songs you should know in order to join others in a jam, and have loads Judy House and loads of fun and laughs too! I hope to see you there! Learn some delightful traditional Christmas tunes collected in the An Appalachian MD Level 2 Friday Session-2 Southern Appalachians. Some are fun and joyous, some plaintive and Christmas Anne Lough haunting and all will harken to a simpler time. Laurie This promises to be a class that really rocks - fiddle tunes, a hymn, and You Rock! MD Level 2 Friday Session-2 Alsobrook even a waltz will have you rockin!' How to figure out a Technique to finding chords and melody lines in order to play tunes you new tune in order to MD Level 3 Friday Session-2 want to learn on the mountain dulcimer including writing simple tableture play it Ehukai Teves to remember a tune and work out the best way to play it. Common Riffs that I This workshop will focus on “walking bass” patterns – both short/simple use in Playing Bass MD Level 3 Friday Session-2 and longer - and where I use them in the song. Put these into your (Bass Dulcimer 203) Kirk House toolbox and know when to pull them out. Chords form the structure for all music. Understanding chord shapes, positions on the fretboard and chord progressions will enable you to learn Chords, the Key to MD Level 3 Friday Session-2 new songs faster, play more smoothly, have more fun jamming, play Playing Better harmonies and so much more! More advanced players might also find Susan Trump this helpful. DAD Tuning Upper Intermediate-Advanced Skill Level – DAD tuning - Requires a 1+ fret and a capo. In this class, you will learn an arrangement of a great old tune made popular in 1964 by Eric Burdon and the Animals. Three verses. The melody is played in two different octaves and the House of the Rising arrangement makes extensive use of the 1+ fret and a capo. A MD Level 4 Friday Session-2 Sun challenge for the intermediate level player and perfect for the more advanced player. Participants will receive the tab along with an audio reference track to use for rehearsal purposes. This tune “has been the ruin of many a poor boy.” Come on! You know you want to learn this Larry Conger song! Take notes as I show you how to play some of the most magical Disney songs ever written. Easy accompaniment to timeless tunes from "Mary Ukulele Disney Uke Level 2 Friday Session-2 Poppins", "The Lion King" and even the Disney parks! Bring your mouse ears, your ukulele and note-taking tools as we analyze and demystify the Bing Futch magic of Disney music! ( If you're wondering what all the fuss is about diatonic autoharps, join me Beginning Diatonic AH Level 3 Friday Session-3 to explore what makes a diatonic, how you can convert your instrument Autoharp Les Gustafson- Zook to diatonic and the benefits of playing a diatonic instrument. Once I discovered that there were (2) TWO basic patterns for playing the classical Greek modes on the hammered dulcimer, I was able to uncover a great many tunes that were just hiding in my instrument, waiting for me Modes on the to find them! (Note: knowledge of music theory is NOT required for this HD Level 1 Friday Session-3 Hammered Dulcimer class, but previous experience at listening and singing or humming songs and tunes is a must.) Students will come away with a firm foundation of how songs work and how they work on the dulcimer. PDF Handouts Steve Eulberg provided. This fun class will show you easy ways to start using your damper pedal. Putting a Damper on With a little practice, you'll find all kinds of ways to add dampers to your HD Level 4 Friday Session-3 Things Mark Alan playing AND you'll be able to physically coordinate you feet and hands to Wade do it! Get ready for some fun! Learn how to hold, tune, strum, fret the dulcimer, read dulcimer tab, play backup chords, and participate in a jam You Can Do This! MD Level 1 Friday Session-3 session - all while learning great songs you already know! Add the "big Dave Haas finish" and "big ending" to complete the experience! DAD For advanced beginner and up, come learn Shape Note hymns arranged for the mountain dulcimer. Shape note music is an American four-part Shape Note Hymns for harmony, acapella singing tradition. These wonderful hymn tunes MD Level 2 Friday Session-3 Mountain Dulcimer translate well to the mountain dulcimer. In addition to learning about shaped note singing, we will learn multi-part arrangements of shape note Carol Crocker hymn tunes arranged for mountain dulcimers. The art of playing individual strings is a useful technique, both for playing Introduction to Flat- melody notes across the fret board, and also for providing MD Level 2 Friday Session-3 Picking accompaniment. We will drill the basic technique, and then show how Tull Glazener we can apply it to tunes. The Icelandic langspil is a Scandinavian cousin of the Appalachian dulcimer: both are diatonically fretted zithers featuring drone strings. So it seems appropriate to try to arrange Icelandic folk tunes for dulcimer, Icelandic Folk Tunes MD Level 3 Friday Session-3 despite the challenge some of these unusual melodies present for the for Dulcimer instrument. These workshops all introduce different tunes, some of which use unfamiliar scales and harmonies. DAD; capo required! Bill Collins You’ve obtained adequate knowledge of the alternating bass pattern that’s so useful in the bulk of the dulcimer repertoire. Now you’re ready to It’s STILL About the take your bass dulcimer playing to another level by learning what to do if MD Level 3 Friday Session-3 Bass Dulcimer! the song calls for a different bass line, such as the walking bass pattern, or what to do if you just have chord symbols dictating what you play. DAd Elaine Conger tuning; 1+ required. The 1-3-5 tuning allows regular dulcimers to play chromatic music. In Playable Fancy Tunes MD Level 4 Friday Session-3 addition to bringing some cool arrangements, I'll show you some tips on in the 1-3-5 Tuning Stephen Seifert how to make your own arrangements in this versatile tuning. The beauty of choral music often involves the complex interweaving of “inner harmony voices”. We’ll use some advanced arrangements to The Beauty of Choral MD Level 5 Friday Session-3 explore how we can approach our three-stringed dulcimer as a choir of Music three independent voices, all contributing to the beauty and interest of Nina Zanetti the music. DAD tuning. 3 Hard Chords The Yes, the dreaded Bb is in here. But learn how these three Barre chords Uke Level 3 Friday Session-3 Will Change Your Life Butch Ross can open up a whole new world to your playing. We'll break down the essential techniques of melody playing to get you Simple Melody Picking AH Level 2 Friday Session-4 picking some familiar songs right away. Keys of C and G. Try to have Karen Mueller your harp in tune, and bring two finger picks and a thumb pick. Have you ever practiced and practiced and felt like you were just spinning your wheels and getting nowhere? Many people waste HOURS of time and effort practicing their instrument, and don’t realize their practice methods often serve as a roadblock toward reaching the end- result they desire. This workshop will teach you some proven techniques Practice Smarter, Not and tested guidelines, teaching you exactly HOW to practice for the All All Levels Friday Session-4 Harder most efficient and effective results! Why waste hours practicing harder when you can practice smarter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njq6J39MH_A&list=PL- sgANzdpUYkgvCn0YbsS6tKitJW0S6Zh&index=1

Brett Ridgeway ALL INSTRUMENTS/ALL LEVELS Learn to play while we sing along to the sounds of some of our favorite Get Ready for HD Level 2 Friday Session-4 holiday tunes! We’ll learn the melody and simple arrangements to play Christmas! Guy George with some classic holiday tunes! Now that you’ve learned some basic playing skills, get more grounded in steady strumming rhythms as you learn a few new tunes. We’ll practice Keep It Steady! MD Level 1 Friday Session-4 strum patterns and coordinating your hands so they work together better. Heidi Muller (DAD) Who says dulcimers are just "D" instruments! Drawing from fiddle tunes, Exploring DGD Tuning MD Level 2 Friday Session-4 hymns and airs, find out how easy and fun it is to play in G and keep the Anne Lough bright, full, open sound of the dulcimer. This workshop will focus on improving the fluidity of your strumming and getting more rhythmic variation in your right hand. We will cover some Improving Your Strum basic techniques to improve your strum, offer multiple exercises that you MD Level 2 Friday Session-4 and Rhythm can use to practice these techniques, and will play with some recorded music and with each other to experiment with different rhythms. Be Jeff Furman prepared to do a lot of strumming! From fiddle tunes to classical, this will be a Gal-a-palooza of tunes about girls! Join me for fun tunes, like Julianne Johnson and Charleston All Girl Review! MD Level 2 Friday Session-4 Laurie Gals...and more! These tunes will teach techniques to smooth out your Alsobrook playing; plus it will be fun! Once you've gained some experience with flatpicking, you'll want to broaden your musical horizons and begin to explore fingerpicking. We'll Mountain Dulcimer - MD Level 3 Friday Session-4 use some pretty tunes that sound great when fingerpicked and I'll show Fingerpickin' Good you some patterns for each song you play. We'll also get into some Bing Futch techniques that will help you put a "pinch" of pizzaz in your songs! Playing rhythm chords The chords you need to play rhythm back up to old time music in order to to old time music for MD Level 3 Friday Session-4 hold the band together, keep tempo and add support Mountain Dulcimer Ehukai Teves Erin Mae will walk you through several tips for efficient and effective practice, including warm-up exercises, fingering patterns, suggestions for Powerful Practice MD Level 3 Friday Session-4 breaking through the hard places, and techniques to polish up a piece Techniques that is almost there. The materials will be geared for intermediate Erin Mae students, but all levels are welcome and may benefit from this class. - Intermediate - DAD tuning - Get a head start on your holiday repertoire. Familiar carols will be mixed with the not so familiar ones to add interest. Christmas Repertoire MD Level 3 Friday Session-4 A basic knowledge of two and three finger chords will be useful in this class. Participants will receive the tabs along with an audio reference Larry Conger track to use for rehearsal purposes. Learn a few ways to change the key of a tune to fit our vocal or melodic Change the Key to Fit range. We’ll learn a few different “methods” for changing the key of a Uke Level 4 Friday Session-4 Your Voice tune so that it’s easier for you or your melody player to fit to their Sharrie George instrument or voice. We’ll apply to a few fun tunes to sing and play. Get yourself ready for the jam by learning these simple versions of jam Jamming 101 AH Level 3 Friday Session-5 Les Gustafson- tunes to build melody proficiency and to provide an entry point to the Zook post COVID fiddle tune jam sessions. Introduction to the You will learn how to tune and to bow your Bowed Psaltery. You will Bowed Psaltery and BP Level 1 Friday Session-5 also learn the Basics of music theory for the beginner. Music Basics Tish Westman Sometimes you just want to play a toe-tapping tune that makes you Happy Hammers HD Level 2 Friday Session-5 smile. Come and learn some sprightly melodies that are bouncy, Jody Marshall boisterous, and 100% fun! A powerful way to share music is with the children in our lives. I am blessed to get to do this daily as a pre-school music teacher. This will be Using Your Dulcimer a chord-based way of playing to accompany singing with clear rhythm, for Singing with MD Level 1 Friday Session-5 using the dulcimer to help find your voice. A Chord handout will be Children provided prior to the class beginning. Featuring Are You Ready to Sing? Students will be equipped to play and sing with the children in their lives. Steve Eulberg PDF Handouts provided. We often learn how to use a capo and are told where to put it. But, have you ever wished you knew how to play a D song in another key without retuning your dulcimer? In this class we will experiment with capo Keys to the Kingdom MD Level 2 Friday Session-5 placement, look for fretboard patterns, and identify major and minor tunes with our ear by using some very familiar tunes written in D. Come get your Keys to the Kingdom! And….Be sure you bring your capo! Judy House (Advanced Beginner and Up) Beginners & UP. DAD tuning. Lois will teach three easy tunes she learned direct from Jean Ritchie, Frank Proffitt Jr., and fiddler Charlie SO-APP TUNES YOU Acufff. If you don’t know these tunes already you may just love them! MIGHT NOT KNOW Tabs will be included, and time-permitting we’ll play thru each several YET ON M.D., with MD Level 2 Friday Session-5 times. Lois Hornbostel. . Goin’ ‘Cross the Mountain (Repeat) . Golden Ring Around the Susan Girl Lois Hornbostel . Josie Girl Like the title says, come learn how well pop and rock songs from this Songs of the 70’s MD Level 3 Friday Session-5 decade fit with the mountain dulcimer. Capo required. Intermediate and Butch Ross up Learn how to use a capo to play both chords and melodies in the key of Playing in Different MD Level 3 Friday Session-5 G, A, and Em. Playing in the key C will also be discussed. A capo is Keys – It’s Easy! Dave Haas needed. DAD An interesting and informative session tracing the use of this well-loved tune as it has been used over the course of history from its 17th century “Old Rosin the Beau:” Irish beginnings to its use throughout American history for political A Song Traipse MD Level 3 Friday Session-5 causes and much, much more. Pete Seeger has dubbed it the Through Time (repeat) "Universal Folk Song" because of how much the tune has been parodied. Participants will receive at least three different tabbed versions of the Elaine Conger tune. Ever wish you could master that challenging tune or progress to a more advanced level of playing, but practicing seems boring and ineffective? We’ll explore some effective ways of practicing, including strategies for working through tricky passages, tips on smoothing out rough transitions, Practical Practicing MD Level 4 Friday Session-5 approaches for increasing speed, and the importance of mind-set and ease. We’ll also consider ways of preparing for performance and competition, including strategies for preventing memory lapses and Nina Zanetti minimizing performance anxiety. This workshop is to help you hear and mimic all the little inflections in Irish music that are NOT on the page. We'll learn how to use various Ornamenting Irish simple percussion rudiments to make them happen on a dulcimer. We’ll HD Level 3 Friday Session-6 Tunes learn to do cranns, flams, ruffs, and more– all while striving to really play Mark Alan in the Irish style. This class is repeated in another time slot, but I'll teach Wade a different tune each session in case you are a glutton for punishment. 2016 International Blues Challenge Finalist Bing Futch offers up this fun and fascinating class on playing authentic Mississippi Delta Blues on the mountain dulcimer. Three chords and heartbeat rhythms lead to us Mountain Dulcimer MD Level 2 Friday Session-6 adding layer upon layer of new elements, all while strumming and Delta Blues playing the blues! Bing won the "Best Guitarist" award in the solo-duo category at the International Blues Challenge while playing the mountain Bing Futch dulcimer! This workshop is based on two foundational principles that I stress to my bass dulcimer students (which are covered in separate workshops for Why EVERYONE bass dulcimer); but these are skills that any musician should have (and should play Bass MD Level 2 Friday Session-6 can probably improve on). The first is maintaining a good sense of Dulcimer! (for ALL rhythm; the second is developing and improving your ‘ear’ skills (hearing musicians) (Repeat) chord changes). We will discuss techniques and practice tips that will Kirk House help you improve these skills. We know how music can touch our hearts. Bring a tear to the eye and a Heart Songs MD Level 3 Friday Session-6 stirring of the heart as you learn some beautiful songs of love, devotion Anne Lough and faithfulness! Bill Staines is the legendary American folksinger who wrote River, A Place in the Choir (All God’s Critters), Crossing the Water, and hundreds of other fine songs that sound great with the dulcimer. We’ll sing and Songs of Bill Staines MD Level 3 Friday Session-6 play along to three of Bill’s wonderful songs and possibly play a melody version if there’s time. Heidi is the arranger of two Bill Staines tab books, Heidi Muller So Sang the River and Spirit Song. (DAD, have a capo handy) Intermediate Skill Level – DAD tuning – 1+ fret optional - This classic Elvis song started out as a Civil War era tune that was adapted with modern day lyrics. Arranged for mountain dulcimer in DAD tuning, the Aura Lee (Love Me arrangement starts in the key of D, then changes to the key of G, making MD Level 3 Friday Session-6 Tender) REPEAT for a more interesting presentation. You will need to have a basic knowledge of two and three finger chords in order to be comfortable learning this piece. Participants will receive the tab along with an audio Larry Conger reference track to use for rehearsal purposes. Have you hit a plateau in your dulcimer journey? New destinations are Mountain Dulcimer MD Level 4 Friday Session-6 available let me be your travel guide...... tips tricks and questions Master Class Ehukai Teves answered...... Erin Mae will give you tools develop your own arrangements of tunes. Write Your Own MD Level 5 Friday Session-6 You'll learn to create several variations, add embellishments, and make Arrangements Erin Mae a piece of music your own. We’ll do a quick review of the basics, adding more notes in the higher Step 2 - Learning to register, as well as easy practice techniques. We’ll start playing easy PW Level 2 Friday Session-6 Play the Pennywhistle tunes with music and penny whistle “tablature” so note reading is not Guy George necessary. "D" penny whistle needed for this workshop. Quick review of part 1, then learn and practice basic rhythms, new chords, strums and tunes! Plenty of strum practice, singing, (not Ukulele Fun! Step 2 - required but helpful) and tips for practicing. Music with chord pictures Rhythm, Chords, and Uke Level 2 Friday Session-6 and strum suggestions will be provided with each tune, along with easy- Tunes! to-read strum patterns so you can easily practice the strum later! Workshop is for soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles with G-C-E-A Sharrie George tuning. Learn how to use your bow to create dynamics and add emotion to your More to it.... BP Level 3 Friday Session-7 Tish Westman playing by using vibrato, staccato and glissando.. Adding just one more finger will make your playing so pretty. We’ll learn 2 Finger Chords for MD Level 1 Friday Session-7 some easy songs that you’ll love to play and enjoy. Beginners Susan Trump DAD tuning Improve your play of slow songs by plucking the strings - one at a time - The Art of Playing in a smooth and melodic style. Learn left and right hand techniques Slowly – Getting MD Level 2 Friday Session-7 which facilitate smooth playing. Build your repertoire by incorporating Started Dave Haas these techniques to popular melodies you already know. DAD Jamming is an acquired skill, and like any other skill, it takes practice. I’ll be playing through common jam tunes at a S-L-O-W tempo, and also S – L – O – W Jam MD Level 2 Friday Session-7 calling out the chord changes. You’ll be able to request some of your Tull Glazener favorite tunes in the “chat window”! Learn some gentle Celtic tunes that bring out the “softer side” of Some Sweet Celtic dulcimer. We will discuss ways of playing smoothly and expressively, MD Level 3 Friday Session-7 Airs we’ll consider the use of ornamentation, and we’ll explore how to use Nina Zanetti variations to enhance these lovely tunes. DAD tuning. Using Beethoven’s familiar “Ode to Joy” tune, we’ll explore some examples of fingerpicking exercises that let us play mechanically, but musically at the same time. This features examples from Steve’s new Mountain Dulcimer Joy MD Level 3 Friday Session-7 Mountain Dulcimer Joy book/CD. The complete text for this class (both downloadable and physical book/cd) will be offered at a discounted rate for students. Students will develop facility, accuracy, moving toward Steve Eulberg hammer independence. PDF Handouts provided. A standard/bass (both DAd; 1+ required) duet with Elaine & Larry Conger. This bluesy version of a Gospel classic can be a bit challenging “Just a Closer Walk due to the number of notes, syncopations and shuffling rhythms. The with Thee:” A Duet for MD Level 4 Friday Session-7 standard part utilizes several hammer-ons and pull-offs to smooth out Standard & Bass those rough spots. Bass players will be given allternative ways to play Dulcimer (repeat) the accompaniment. Participants will receive the tab along with an audio Elaine Conger reference track to use for rehearsal purposes. Learn a couple of fun tunes from the best Christmas special ever. Learn A Charlie Brown new ideas for picking, tuning and voicings, all while impressing your MD Level 5 Friday Session-7 Christmas grandkids (ok maybe just your kids). You’ll need a 1.5 fret and be willing Butch Ross to retune. Know your basic chord patterns but not sure how to use them to Playing Backup: HD Level 4 Friday Session-8 accompany others? In this workshop we’ll focus on some specific ways to Waltzes (Repeat) Jody Marshall accompany waltzes. For students who are new at playing the bass dulcimer (but who are comfortable playing a standard dulcimer). It is also for anyone just Introduction to Bass thinking about learning the bass dulcimer. It is not necessary to bring a Dulcimer (Bass MD Level 1 Friday Session-8 bass dulcimer to class; all the exercises can be done on a standard Dulcimer 101) - Repeat dulcimer. We will look at common rhythms used, how to play a fundamental ‘bass Kirk House line’ in those songs, and other topics essential to playing bass. For players who are progressing beyond the basics, come learn some Toe-Tapping Tunes MD Level 2 Friday Session-8 fun and easy jam tunes and their backup chords. Discover fingerings that Heidi Muller make it easier to move up and down the fretboard. (DAD) Advancing Beginner – DAD tuning – This workshop takes the traditional strum and drone style a step farther by introducing the basics of chord- melody style. You will use basic two finger chords along with a Beyond the Drone MD Level 2 Friday Session-8 combination of strums and individually picked notes to create a more contemporary sound. Familiar songs will be used to reinforce the concepts. Participants will receive the tab along with an audio reference Larry Conger track to use for rehearsal purposes. Beginners & up. DAC tuning. Aeolian Mode is also called the “natural minor” scale. It’s the most haunting of all the modes, and a simple change to the DAC tuning yields beautiful musical spice to your THE MAGIC OF repertoire. Come tuned to DAC by simply tuning down your first string, AEOLIAN TUNING, MD Level 2 Friday Session-8 one step down to C natural.* We’ll play some easy tab pieces in Aeolian with Lois Hornbostel. mode. You won’t regret it! * If you need help tuning, visit the NGFDA “Homeroom,” where someone can help you. If you have 2 strings for your first course, tune them both Lois Hornbostel down to C natural. This class will explore the how, why, where, and when of left-hand fingering position. Emphasis will be on choosing fingering to help you with the smoothness of your playing, the quality of the sound you Improving Your produce, and achieving better sustain and connection between notes and Fingering to Smooth MD Level 3 Friday Session-8 chords. There is no right or wrong way in fingering, but there may be Your Playing ways that are better for variety of reasons. We will explore these reasons and also consider comfort and physical issues to help you improve your Jeff Furman fingering and help smooth your playing. Please bring a CAPO! The Easiest Way to I'll show you the least you have to know to play melody and chords at the Play Melody and MD Level 3 Friday Session-8 same time. Chord-melody does not have to be complicated. This simple Chords at the Same approach is easy on the brain, hands, and ears. Time Stephen Seifert Learn how to create a fingerpicked and flatpicked arrangment of a beautiful DAD waltz, starting with a simple strummed version. Flatpicking One Waltz, Three and fingerpicking techniques will be explained, as well as how to read the MD Level 4 Friday Session-8 Ways tab for both styles to see how it is similar and different from strumming. Once the strummed chord-melody arrangement is learned, it is easier to Karen Mueller work out the other verions. Review basic notes and higher register playing technique, and then learn Pennywhistle in a Jam some fun traditional tunes that can be played in a jam. We’ll learn Step 3 - Learning PW Level 1 Friday Session-8 melody and some harmony for tunes. “D” Pennywhistle needed for this Pennywhistle Guy George workshop. Play the instrument that is fun, enjoyable and the beginning of a lifetime Ukulele easy as 1 2 3 Uke Level 1 Friday Session-8 of music. Get the beginners steps to chords that allow you to play songs Ehukai Teves to accompany your singing.