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This is the place to discuss the complex stuff. It is also the place to bring wordy, sometimes debatable and perhaps even esoteric conversations about this alien language of music we are all trying to decode. By bringing the aforementioned subject matter here, we can keep the Beginning Music Theory group accessible to those for whom it is intended.
"Music theory is deep, and wide." A direct quote that is absolutely true. ED has a large number of people with the desire to broaden their knowledge of music theory as it applies to a dulcimer, both hammered and mountain. There are also a lot of people here at Everything Dulcimer with a lot of experience and music backgrounds. This group is set up to bring these two groups together to ask specific applied theory questions, give specific answers, with references I hope, and volunteer bits and pieces of theory as applied to a dulcimer. The goal is to transform the rhetoric of theory to the nuts and bolts of playing a dulcimer.
The Keepin' Timers meet once a week to play, laugh, talk, share music, and learn together on the mountain dulcimer. Alan is the founder of our group and he is also a dulcimer builder. We'd like to invite other interested folks to join us. We meet in Beverly, Oh., at the Fifth St. Church of Christ, on Monday evenings at 8:00. See our website at keepintimedulcimergroup@yolasite.com.
The "Singin' Strings" Dulcimer Club at St. Joseph Academy was established on March 9, 2006. Our interest in Appalachian music started in 2003 during an "Artist in Residency Program" sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council. During this residency program (performed by Mr. Russ Childers), our students participated in square dancing, the art of storytelling, singing traditional Appalachian songs, the history of the banjo and playing the mountain dulcimer.
The artistry of "Mr. Russ," ignited a passion for dulcimer playing in our school. In January 2006, we were able to have a "Five-day Dulcimer Residency Program." After the residency program, I decided to continue what Mr. Russ started in our school. This is how the "Singin' Strings Dulcimer Club" began at SJA.
The mission of the SSDC is to promote the art of playing the mountain dulcimer and preserve our rich Kentucky Heritage through music. One way of promoting the mountain dulcimer is to raise money to purchase dulcimers or acquire dulcimers (with geared tuners & 6½ fret), teaching materials, dulcimer music stands, straps, capos and cases for our school so all of the students can experience the joy of playing the mountain dulcimer.
We are also expanding our grant project to include other folk instruments, bowed psalteries and hammered dulcimers. Please refer to our "Grants" page.
I'm creating this group for discussion with folks who might like to travel to Australia for music, fun, and making more friends in our dulcimer world. I have been a visitor in Australia for nearly 10 months. I reckon I have taken over 10,000 pictures while I have been here, and I think I have some insight to share about this beautiful place.
Adrian Kosky and I are getting set to start providing music instruction and more entertainment at his place here in Daylesford, Victoria. At this moment he is talking to some of his musical, Australian, friends about coming to Tasma House to teach. If anyone in our EverythingDulcimer.com world is interested in teaching here or being trained here, I would appreciate hearing what your interests are. I think this is the right place to begin those discussions.
I hope you will join me in something fabulous and new! Interested? xxoo from Carla
They've got all the notes and we love them. Join up and make an introduction! (When we say chromatic mountain dulcimer, we mean they have all the frets. When we say chromatic hammered, we mean linear chromatic, piano dulcimer, or something similar.)
If things like fingerpicking, 4-string equidistant tuning, electric dulcimers, etc. are your thing, then this group is for you.
Please share your TAB's, techniques, etc. here.
