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Take More Risks
by Linda Ratcliff
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The biggest risk a person can take is to not take one at all. Take More Risks The great thing about New Year’s resolutions is that you can set new goals to improve yourself. That being said – this year, why don’t you take more risks with your dulcimer playing. Here are just a few ideas.
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Advent Dulcimer Devotions return...
by Steve Eulberg
Imagine this: A weekly email playing gentle music of instrumental ensembles featuring dulcimers, with a message of preparation that is serene, clear-sighted and hope-filled--an anti-dote to the crazed, blurry-eyed busyness of Christmas preparations (that began in some locations back in October.)
Advent is the 4-week season in the Christian tradition that marks the beginning of a new year in the life of the "called-out" people of God known as the church. While we gather and prepa…
Imagine this: A weekly email playing gentle music of instrumental ensembles featuring dulcimers, with a message of preparation that is serene, clear-sighted and hope-filled--an anti-dote to the crazed, blurry-eyed busyness of Christmas preparations (that began in some locations back in October.)
Advent is the 4-week season in the Christian tradition that marks the beginning of a new year in the life of the "called-out" people of God known as the church. While we gather and prepa…
Prepared to be Lucky
by Steve EulbergLucky Joe's Sidewalk Saloon, in Fort Collins, Colorado, is one of the places I began honing my craft of performing in live venues at the end of the last century.
As soon as church was over in the morning, I would phone in to get my name put on the Open Mic list for what I hoped would be the prime time after the weekly Acoustic Open Mic began at 9 pm every Sunday Night.
Sometimes I was "lucky" and my name was earlier on the list, so I could listen to a few of the other players, play…
Backing Tracks Library is growing!
We keep adding to our Library of Backing Tracks which are available to our Premium Members.
The two newest are the chord progressions in the Keys of D and G which match the Albert Brumley tune: I'll Fly Away. These were created for the new Bluegrass Dulcimer series taught by Steve Eulberg.
We are continuing to produce these and other resources to assist you in your goals to "Bridge the Gap Between What You Know and Where You Want Your Music to Grow."
The two newest are the chord progressions in the Keys of D and G which match the Albert Brumley tune: I'll Fly Away. These were created for the new Bluegrass Dulcimer series taught by Steve Eulberg.
We are continuing to produce these and other resources to assist you in your goals to "Bridge the Gap Between What You Know and Where You Want Your Music to Grow."
Music Confounds the Machines
by Steve EulbergFocusing on the challenges that artists face in the current digital and mechanistic day and age, T Bone Burnett gave the keynote address at the AmericanFest in September of this year.
I found these words echoing in my soul:
"Music is to the United States as wine is to France. We have spread our culture all over the world with the soft power of American music. We both have regions- France has Champagne, we have the Mississippi Delta. France has Bordeaux, we have the Appalachian Mo…
I Have to Practice every day...
by Linda Ratcliff
...to play as bad as I do. —Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg) is a passionate fan of jazz, and jazz music has often been featured prominently in the soundtracks of his movies. He started playing the clarinet when he was a teenager and actually chose his stage name, Woody, after the famous clarinet player Woody Herman.
Woody will be 81 in December, and these days he is performing with the Eddy David New Orleans Jazz Band. They play every Monday night at th…
...to play as bad as I do. —Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg) is a passionate fan of jazz, and jazz music has often been featured prominently in the soundtracks of his movies. He started playing the clarinet when he was a teenager and actually chose his stage name, Woody, after the famous clarinet player Woody Herman.
Woody will be 81 in December, and these days he is performing with the Eddy David New Orleans Jazz Band. They play every Monday night at th…
Historical Music Printing
by Steve EulbergNow, for a taste of History!
Luís Henriques has posted a terrific video that illustrates and describes the challenge and results of printing music using a printing press in the Renaissance.
Understanding the challenges of musical notation in the printing process can help us better appreciate the tools that are available to us today as we produce original music, arrange music for playing with friends and create tablature to translate our ideas for playing on dulcimers.
Stay tuned for…
Quantity vs. Quality
by Steve Eulberg
Which is more important in art:
We want to have qualities of timbre and phrasing in music, quality of graceful movement in dance, qualities of taste and smell in cooking, qualities of joy and cleverness in humor, qualities of color, depth and placement in visual art.
So, choosing the end goal of this discussion as…
Which is more important in art:
Quantity or Quality?
Very often in the artistic world some believe we have settled this classic debate by choosing the benefits of quality over the benefits of quantity.We want to have qualities of timbre and phrasing in music, quality of graceful movement in dance, qualities of taste and smell in cooking, qualities of joy and cleverness in humor, qualities of color, depth and placement in visual art.So, choosing the end goal of this discussion as…
Sweet Harmonies
by Steve Eulberg We play dulcimers, whose name incorporates the Latin word for "sweet" (dulce). So when I talk about sweet harmonies, in a broad sense, they are the beautiful tunes that we play on our lovely instruments. However, in a more specific way, there are harmonies that reflect the intervals between notes that, at least to Western ears, trained to expect Western harmonies, that are "sweet." The space between two notes that are played simultaneously, or one after the other, is called an …
New Log-In Procedure & FAQs
At DulcimerCrossing we are always trying to improve and reduce confusion that is the friction that can slow down the process of learning music. We have a new log-in procedure that will direct subscribers to choose their level of membership: Basic or Premium with a single log-in button for both. \
In addition, this video is the first of several from our brand new FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions Page) to help our subscribers answer their questions faster so they can spend more time playing dulcim…
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