Mountain Dulcimer Books

NEW SONGBOOK!

MIKE ANDERSON’S KIDS’ S SONG BOOK

24 songs * 59 pages

$15.95

Finally! Mike’s long-time-coming new songbook contains words, dulcimer tab, chords, music, histories, and a couple of jokes for 24 kid’s songs. The collection includes 5 Mike Anderson originals including the 2003 Children’s Web Song of the Year winner I Dropped It.

All Through the Night * Baa Baa Black Sheep * Brother John * Daddy Shot a Bear * Down by the Station * How ‘Bout a Moose? * I Dropped It * The Itsy Bitsy Spider * I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground * Late Last Night * London Bridge Is Falling Down * Mary Had a Little Lamb * Old Blue * Old McDonald Had a Farm * On Top of Spaghetti * The Rabbit and the Eagle * Rain, Rain, Go Away * The Riverboat Song * Row, Row, Row Your Boat * Skip to My Lou * Tell My Ma * This Old Man * Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star * Who’s That?

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Mountain Dulcimer Wall Chart - $7.50

Visually attractive, this user-friendly chart provides mountain dulcimer students and teachers with an overview of the instrument. Included are a chart of note locations on the fretboard for both DAA and DAD tunings, a comparison of DAA and DAD, diagrams of typical dulcimer stringing, and explanations of playing tools such as noters and picks. 24" x 35" durable coated paper.

Beginning Dulcimer Level:

Basic Dulcimer Solos - $7.50

This book introduces simplified techniques of chording and fingerpicking for both smaller and larger hands and presents dozens of songs in the Ionian, Aeolian, and Mixolydian modes. Directional arrows are shown for correct strumming, along with lyrics and chords for guitar or banjo accompaniment.

You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer
(19.50 – Book/CD set) (19.95 -Book/DVD set) ($24.95 -Book/CD/DVD set)

Madeline MacNeil brings her considerable expertise in teaching the dulcimer to this fine beginning text. The book covers tuning, scales, strumming, fingering, chords, the "noter", and the capo. Many fine dulcimer solos are also contained. The CD contains Ms. MacNeil's excellent teaching and is in stereo play-along format.

Complete Children's Dulcimer Method - $14.50

This outstanding children's method for mountain dulcimer is the result of the author's many years of sharing the dulcimer with children, and has been successful with children as young as 5 years old. This single volume combines the best material from the author's two previous volumes, Children's Dulcimer Method Volumes One and Two. In it you will find many traditional songs and folk tunes arranged for the mountain dulcimer. Each song has a simple strum pattern indicated above it with fret numbers for the melody notes and lyrics included where appropriate. There are instructions for strumming, chording, fingerpicking, and for three modal tunings (Ionian, Aeolian, and Mixolydian). Harmony is included for many of the songs, so that two or more dulcimers can play together.

Simply Duets - by Maureen Sellers - $20.00 - 100+ pages

In this book you will find: Some songs with melody and harmony. Some with melody, harmony and arpeggiating (fingerpicking)
Some songs with a 'call and response' Chords to back up a melody

Chords in three positions on the fretboard
Chop chords
Chord runs
Arpeggiated chords
Chord progressions

Singing and playing
Diamond chords

SONG LIST: All The Good Times, America, the Beautiful, Auld Lang Syne, Aura Lee, Blessed Quietness, Blind Mary, Dixie, Down In the Valley, Down In the Willow Garden, Down The Brae, Fire Song, Get Up And Bar the Door, Goin' Home, Good Old Man, I'll Give My Love An Apple, I've Got Peace Like A River, Jesus, Won't You Come By Here?, Lavender's Blue, Midnight Garden, My Dear Old Buffalo Boy, New River Train, Ode To Joy, Paper Of Pins, Sabbath Home, Shenandoah, Soul's Sweet Home, Southwind, Spanish Is A Loving Tongue, There's A Hole In The Bucket, There's A Long, Long Trail, There's More Pretty Girls, True Lover's Farewell, Waltzing Matilda, Water Is Wide, Where Will I Shelter My Sheep?

Songs of the Civil War - by Maureen Sellers - $12.00

One of the "Simply" series, for novice level and beyond. All songs are in DAD tuning, some capo required. Standard notation and tablature, lyrics, and chords. Also includes author's notes about each song. 57 pages.

SONG LIST: Aura Lee, Battle Cry of Freedom, Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Bonnie Blue Flag, Darling Nelly Gray, Dixie, The Girl I Left Behind Me, Johnny Is Gone For A Soldier, Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo), Lincoln and Liberty, Lorena, Lula Is Gone, Marching Through Georgia, My Old Kentucky Home, Never Forget the Dear Ones, Richmond Is A Hard Road To Travel, Somebody's Darling, The Southern Soldier Boy, Tenting Tonight, The Vacant Chair, Wait for the Wagon, When Johnny Comes Marching Home

The Dulcimer Guy Songbook, by Mike Anderson
$14.95 - 65 pages

This book includes DAA and DAD versions of most of these songs as well as instructions on teaching kids, and therefore adults, how to play. Includes: Ionian – DAA: Boil That Cabbage Down, Brother John, Soldier’s Joy, Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm, Bicycle Built for Two, Waterbound, Ode to Joy, Flop-Eared Mule, Wildwood Flower, Squirrel Heads and Gravy, Deck the Halls #1, Deck the Halls #2, Away in a Manger, Silent Night, Jingle Bells, We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Mixolydian Tuning - DADD: Boil That Cabbage Down, Brother John, Flopeared Mule, Wildwood Flower ,Spotted Pony Waterbound, Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm, God Bless America, The Star Spangled Banner, Over the Waterfall, Soldier’s Joy, Squirrel Heads and Gravy, Morning Has Broken, Ode to Joy, On Top of Old Smoky, June Apple, A Basic Picking Pattern, Picking on Brother John, Picking that Cabbage Down, Away in Manger Good King Wenceslas, Deck the Halls, In the Bleak Midwinter, Jingle Bells, Silent Night, We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

Intermediate Playing Level:

Fingerpicking Dulcimer Book/CD set $19.95

A collection of 21 songs arranged in a fingerpicking style for the mountain dulcimer, this book offers a wide variety of musical genres and playing levels. Divided equally between arrangements for three and four equidistant strings, the songs progress in difficulty within each section from beginner to advanced level. Each piece is written in both standard music notation and dulcimer tablature, and is accompanied by performance tips for playing that song. Many arrangements utilize the 6 1/2 fret, and tunings range from standard modal tunings to four-string variations. The arrangements cover a wide range of song styles including traditional ragtime, blues, and classical standards. Songs include My Old Kentucky Home; Londonderry Air, All Through the Night, The Entertainer, Careless Love, House of the Rising Sun, Für Elise, and Bach's Minuet in G. There is an extensive introduction on playing techniques for both left and right hands, tunings, reading tablature, and dulcimer embellishments. The accompanying CD is an instrumental recording of solo dulcimer, designed to give the student a note-for-note reference to each written arrangement while providing a performance-quality listening experience.

Favorite Jam Session Tunes for Hammered or Fretted Dulcimer - $14.95

Dulcimer Jam takes common and obscure tunes heard in jam sessions and arranges them for hammered dulcimer, fretted dulcimers (with tablature), and other instruments to play in a jam session setting.

The Dulcimer Hymn Book - $9.50

This popular text blends the haunting, sweet voice of the mountain dulcimer with treasured gospel and sacred melodies. Contains 37 outstanding arrangements in standard notation and tab with lyrics and suggested guitar chords. Dulcimer chord diagrams are also shown.

Celtic Songs and Slow Airs for the Mountain Dulcimer
Book & CD set - $22.00

In folk tradition, stories of love lost, betrayal, jealousy, conflict, emigration, and the supernatural are often immortalized in songs of many traditions, demonstrating that singing has been a universal vehicle for the human condition. The criteria for this wonderful collection of prose and melodies is from Celtic traditions that have been with us for hundreds of years. These compositions have been arranged so that each will work both as an air and as a song. All of the selections in the book appear on the companion CD.

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