MD CDs CDs – $10 each, or 4 for $35 + s/h (price includes sheet music)

Beg. DAA 1) 1st Steps: Tuning to DAA; LH & RH Techniques; 3 Ways to Strum; Go Tell Aunt Rhody; Boil That Cabbage; Hot Cross Buns;

2) Black Them Boots (Work on Back & Forth Strum); Down In The Valley; Amazing Grace 3) Cotton Eyed Joe (Assign fingers to frets); Cripple Creek (Use the 10th fret) 4) Columbus Stockade; Old Suzanna

Beg. DAD Mini-Lessons 1) Getting Started: Learn to strum and fret and beginning chords; Boil That Cabbage 2) Gray cat (fretting and strumming) He’s Got The Whole World 3) Strumming 8th notes; What’ll I Do With The Baby-O; June Apple (skipping frets) 4) Learn The D Scale; Joy To The World; Old Joe Clark (Use the 6th fret) 5) Pig In A Pen; Sandy Boys; EZ Chords in D 6) Scotland The Brave 7) Whiskey Before Breakfast 8) Bonaparte Crossing The Alps

*********************************************************************** CDs – $20, or 2 for $35 (price includes sheet music)

Mt. Dulcimer DAD Lesson CDs Lesson 1 in DAD: Gray Cat; He’s Got The Whole World; What’ll I Do With The Baby-O Lesson 2 in DAD: Boil That Cabbage; June Apple; Old Joe Clark; Joy To The World; Bonaparte Crossing The Alps; Lesson 2 in DAA: Hot Cross Buns; Boil That Cabbage; Down In The Valley Lesson 3 in DAA: Cotton Eyed Joe; Black Them Boots; Cripple Creek; O Suzanna; Columbus Stockade; Amazing Grace Lesson 4 in DAA: Keep On The Sunny Side Of Life; Angel Band; You Are My Sunshine (with “instant” harmony); On Top Of Old Smokey Lesson 5 in DAD: Old Joe Clark; June Apple; Goin’ To Boston; Cluck Ol’ Hen; Buffalo Gals Lesson 6 in DAD Joy To The World; Scotland The Brave; Pig In A Pen; Bonaparte Crossing The Alps; Sandy Boys; Whiskey Before Breakfast; Cord Shapes Lesson 7 in DAD: Learn Chords in DAD; Boil That Cabbage; Suo Gan; South Wind Lesson 8 in DAD: Arkansas Traveler; Clinch Mt. Backstep; Liza Jane; Bonaparte Crossing The Alps; Margaret’s Waltz

MD videos All DVDs are $15 each, or 5 for $60 + s/h (Price includes sheet music)

Beginner in DAA 1) Black Them Boots; Cotton eyed Joe; Counting and Strumming 2) Left Hand Skill; Cripple Creek; Infant Holy 3) London Bridge; Skip To My Lou; EZ Chords 4) Scales for DAA & DAD; Going From DAA to DAD; Left Hand Skills for DAA & DAD

Novice/Int. in DAA 1) Down To The River; Holy Manna; Bum Biddy Strumming 2) Loch Lommond 3) Finger Picking; The Water Is Wide; Wherever He Leads

Beginner in DAD 1) Gray Cat; Work On Counting and Strumming; 2) Angels Watchin’; Cluck Ol’ Hen; Using A Capo 3) Skip To My Lou; Michael Row The Boat; LH Skills 4) Scales; Tuning to DAD; 30 Pieces Of Silver

Beginner – Novice 1) A Virgin Unspotted (DAD); 2) Black Is The Color – DAC; On Christmas Night – DAD/capo

Novice 1) Arran Boat Song (DAD/capo); The JackFish (DAD/capo 2) Blue Bells Of Scotland; Learn Chords in DAD 3) Techniques & Skills for all levels (finger placement, hammer-ons/pull-offs, string bend); Every Night When The Sun (finger picking) 4) Get Ready For Christmas: The First Noel; Silent Night; Sing We Now Of Christmas 5) More Christmas: I Wonder As I Wander (DAD/capo; cross picking; sing & play); In Dulci Jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice: Learn a “gallop” strum) 6) New Skills in DAD: Use Fingerpicking & learn Precious Lord & Go Tell Aunt Rhody 7) Retune to DGD: Mari’s Wedding; Pigtown Fling 8) Yellow Rose Of Texas; Rivers of Texas in DAD 9) More Christmas: On Christmas Night (Dad, LH use chords, RH “gallop” strum); and The King Shall Come (Advent hymn in DAC; What LH is Doing (Work on Finger Placement) 10) Two Old Hymns in DAD: On Jordan’s Stormy Banks; Suppertime 11) Let’s Try DAC: Scarborough Fair; Sing We Now Of Christmas and Shady Grove 12) Two Fiddle Tunes in DAD: Spotted Pony and Suzanna Gal 13) Three Old Time Tunes in DAD: Jessica Waltz; Shortnin’ Bread and Julie Ann Johnson

Novice- Intermediate 1) Hymn Promo: Angels Watchin’ (DAD/capo); No Not One (DAD); Holy Manna (DAA) 2) Four Marys: A VERY old tune with 3 versions- Novice, Intermediate and Advanced 3) Tipperary, So Far Away (DGD) and Shady Grove (DAD) 4) Playing Jigs: Jig Exercises; Jigs For All Levels; Regan’s Jig (DAD); In Dulci Jubilo (DAD using gallop strum)

Intermediate 1) Five tunes in DAD: Learn to Use “advancing” techniques: Hammer-ons and Pull-offs; John Tremain’s Reel; In Dulci Jubilo; Welsh Jig’; Every Night When The Sun Goes In; and Arkansas Traveler 2) Blue Moon Of Kentucky (DAD/capo) and Carolan’s Fancy (DAD, using string- bending technique) 3) Learn Three-Finger Chords in DAD and play Edelweiss 4) Learn Brian Boru’s March in DAD 5) Learn Chinese Rocking Song and Eriskay [Scottish Love Lilt] in DAD 6) New Technique – Flat picking (or Cross-picking) Flat pick Scales in DAD and learn John Tremain’s Reel, note by note 7) Use Chords with Margaret’s Waltz and Mary’s Boy Child 8) More Flat picking: Mist Covered Mountains (DAD/capo) and Seasons Of Peace (DAD)

Intermediate – Advanced 1) Three Interesting Performance Pieces: Suzanna Gal (EAA, with a little syncopation); The Fox (Play and Sing in DAD); and Wild Horse At Stoney Point (Flat pick in DAD) 2) Star Of The County Down: Flat pick in D minor (DAC), using chord-melody technique, OR Fingerpick in A minor (DAD/capo)

Advanced Performance Pieces 1) Autumn Leaves (DAD with flatpicking); Christmas Ice Stars [Chinese Rocking Song] (DAD Chords- cross picking) 2) Spider Bit The Baby (DAD needs 1+ fret, a very old fiddle tune); Midnight On The Water (DAD cross picking chords, an old Texas Dance Hall Tune) 3) St. Louis Blues (DAD – needs 1+ fret); Starry Starry Night (DAD – needs 1+ fret) and Ukranian Bell Carol (DAC, flat picking) 4) Unchained Melody (DAD chords with cross picking)