Hello fellow hammerers!
(Scroll down for links to Stephen Seifert's additional teaching aids. We share all of this freely with the Nonesuch Club, but do ask that you'll consider subscribing to DulcimerSchool.com for thousands of videos and ongoing instruction with Dan, Stephen, and more teachers. )
This note contains links to the follow-up material I (Dan) promised you at the Halsway Manor festival. I hope you find the videos useful, and will spend time practicing the written exercises.
Thank you all so much for being so kind to two goofy Americans.
I miss you all. - Dan
You can copy and past the url from the list below. (The url is the part that begins with http.) I've also made the titles respond as clickable links.
1. Hand Tricks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u02FWPe_4Z0
2. Hammering Exercises - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vw1ijpRpr4
3. St. Basil's Hymn Learning Videos (4 parts)
St. Basil's Hymn 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOIFKV2Sb0
St. Basil's Hymn 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTWadW1Q-s
St. Basil's Hymn 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXf7Bir6HSw
St. Basil's Hymn 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GbZHeGArIo
4. Favorite Things (end of class video) - https://youtu.be/647pXmYLIYk
5. Written Exercises - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1589849/Rudimers%20Exercise%20Handout.pdf
Links to Stephen Seifert's additional teaching aids. We share all of this freely with the Nonesuch Club, but do ask that you'll consider subscribing to DulcimerSchool.com for thousands of videos and ongoing instruction with Dan, Stephen, and more teachers.
01 Strumming and Reading Hands
02 Making Stuff Up
03 Using Chord Tones on One String
04 Tuning
05 Strum Exercise
06 Chord Shortcuts
07 Fingering Positions and Exercise
08 Basic Chord Shapes without Worrying about Names
09 Pattern of Chord Shapes for the Same Chord Name
10 Fitting Chord Shapes to Sweet Hour of Prayer
11 Chord Practice Tips and Major and Minor L-Chords
12 How the Shapes Get Their Letter Names
13 Chord Shape Fingerings
14 Making Tunes Simpler
15 Making Tunes Fancier
16 Ways I Might Play June Apple from Join the Jam with Variety
17 Polly Put the Kettle On
18 Rhythm Exercise Preparing for Pig Ankle Rag
19 Pig Ankle Rag Part I
20 Pig Ankle Rag Part II
21 Harmonics
22 Clean Finger Picking
23 Shepherd_s Wife_s Waltz
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Kennard, TX
24 KENNARD Fingerpicking Home on the Range
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Signal Mountain, TN
Signal Mountain 3-Day - Right Hand Tricks 1 of 6
Signal Mountain 3-Day - Right Hand Tricks 2 of 6
Signal Mountain 3-Day - Right Hand Tricks 3 of 6
Signal Mountain 3-Day - Right Hand Tricks 4 of 6
Signal Mountain 3-Day - Right Hand Tricks 5 of 6
Signal Mountain 3-Day - Right Hand Tricks 6 of 6
Signal Mountain 3-Day - Benton's Dream Jam
Signal Mountain 3-Day - Pretty Betty Martin/Johnson Boys/Tumblin' (Cumberland) Gap
Signal Mountain 3-Day - Hangman's Reel Jam
Signal Mountain 3-Day - The Blackest Crow Jam
01 Signal Mountain - Long Short
02 Signal Mountain - Short Long
03 Signal Mountain - Crosspicking Patterns
04 Signal Mountain - Long Short:Short Long and Crosspicking
05 Signal Mountain - Flatpicking Whiskey Before Breakfast
06 Signal Mountain - Review of Right Hand Stuff
07 Signal Mountain - Summarize Performance Version of Mississippi Sawyer
08 Signal Mountain - Mississippi Sawyer Performance
09 Signal Mountain - Playing Bass on the Bass String
10 Signal Mountain - Clarifying Difference Between Strumming_ Flatpicking_ and Crosspicking
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Lancaster, OH
01 Lancaster, OH - Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm
02 Lancaster, OH - El Paso