DVD-Hammer Dulcimer-A Comprehensive Beginner's Course

Description

In this comprehensive and easy to follow beginner's course, John McCutcheon brings his vast musical knowledge and experience to learning hammer dulcimer players. John guides you through the fundamentals of this beautiful and compelling instrument, and will have you playing exciting tunes almost immediately.

You'll learn how to tune and set up your instrument, hold the hammers, find all the notes and chords, play scales, build coordination between your right and left hands and develop rolls, flams and other special hammering techniques. By the end of this 90-minute session you'll be playing essential tunes and variations, including "Golden Slippers," "Liberty," "Skip to My Lou," "Lonesome John," "Fisher's Hornpipe," "Scully's Reel" and "Planxty Fanny Power."

In short, you'll get everything you need to get your hammer dulcimer playing off to a great start!

"John McCutcheon is the most impressive instrumentalist I've ever heard." —Johnny Cash

Customer Reviews:

Great music but not for the absolute beginner...........2006-01-14

This is one of several books/DVD/CD sets I purchased to attempt to learn how to play.... John is an awesome player and I think any intermediate player would benefit greatly from this DVD but for me it was pretty confusing...
John would play a piece and then would say rewind and play again until I got it... I was left to picking notes to try and match the music and it was not very efficient... Finally found Madeline's book (offered as a set with this DVD)which showed which strings I needed to hit and everything clicked... If you are an absolute beginner, purchase the set and start with Madeline's book first... You won't be sorry....

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