Mountain Dulcimer Joy
6-week class Wednesdays 11 am MST to begin January 25th.
Focusing on good technique for accuracy and speed with both hands we develop facility, accuracy and confidence with our fingers playing independently and interdependently using exercises that sound musical.
(Includes a digital & physical copy of the Book/CD Mountain Dulcimer Joy)
A step-by-step progressive approach yields the "stickiest" learning.
Screen to Screen Zoom Class, PDF handouts, .mp3 files for priming the pump and reinforcement, archive videos of classes each week.
11 am MST = 10 am PST = 12 noon CST = 1 pm EST = 5 pm UTC
Fretting Hand
From individual strings to chord shapes across the neck and up into the higher registers. We'll cover 3 octaves of exercises using a variety of meters, patterns and chord substitutions.
Our text is Mountain Dulcimer Joy
Building on Beethoven's Ode to Joy, these 30 exercises let us develop our skills while exploring arranging possibilities with exercises that sound musical while also being mechanical.
The digital copies of this book/CD are included in the registration fee.
You can also purchase the physical book/CD separately if you prefer and printed copy.
Fingering Hand
Using a home position these exercises help us build fingerstyle accuracy, confidence and facility with playing independently and interdependently.
If you prefer to use a flatpick to develop your flatpick accuracy, these exercises will also suit you well!
31 days develops the habit by playing fingerstyle daily.
The Dulcimer Joy exercises are grouped together in 6 groups by common characteristics (one group per week).
Steve Eulberg has nearly 50 years of experience
discovering, playing and teaching guitar, mountain and hammered dulcimers. He earned a Master of Music Education from Boston University with a goal of teaching traditional music on traditional instruments.
The traditional way of learning is...
knee to knee or in our case, screen to screen.
Students will receive .mp3 sound files to listen before class to the tunes we'll be learning, together with the reinforcement of written tablature.
Finally, a video archive of each week's session is provided to students as well.
The Dulcimer Community is welcoming....
This course gives you the skills to enter into jam sessions of traditional music and strum along with enthusiasm and joy!
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Dulcimer Crossing
“It was a great class that was not intimidating which it easily could have been, it was fun! ”
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Dulcimer Crossing
“Steve is both an expert on his instrument and a humble and compassionate teacher- a rare combination.”
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Dulcimer Crossing
“The lesson was broken down in an accessible way and it was like opening up a magic box.”
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