Description

This collection of dances and songs comes from Peggy Carter’s repertoire of hammered dulcimer arrangements, drawing from years of playing live string-band music for contra dancing, Irish dancing and Royal Scottish country dancing. If you like to dance and sing, you’ll LOVE this book. Dances and Songs to Play and Sing for Hammered Dulcimer includes pieces from many parts of the world, arranged for solo performance or dance accompaniment. It includes songs for voice and dulcimer, which can also be played as solo arrangements. In addition, you’ll find marches, jigs, reels, polkas, strathspeys, waltzes and slow dances. The truth is, when playing for dance, a hammered dulcimer is all you’ll need!

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION
2. Tuning In DADGAD
3. How To Use This Book
4. GETTING STARTED
5. Three Easy Chords
6. Playing Simple Melodies
7. Improvising With Third String Melodies
8. Improvising In Other Keys
9. Improvisation Examples
10. Learning More Chords
11. Simple Scale Patterns
12. Minor Scale Patterns
13. Putting It All Together
14. LEVERAGING STANDARD TUNING
15. Using Standard Tuning Chord Shapes In DADGAD
16. Creating Chords By Shifting Strings
17. Moveable Chord Forms
18. Converting Scales From Standard To DADGAD
19. Creating Blues Scales In DADGAD
20. The CAGED System
21. CAGED In DADGAD
22. INTERVALS AND HARMONY
23. Introducing Intervals
24. Harmonizing With Thirds
25. Harmonized Thirds On The Fourth And Fifth Strings
26. Harmonized Thirds On The Third And Fourth Strings
27. Harmonized Thirds On Second And Third Strings
28. More Harmonized Thirds
29. Harmonizing With Sixths
30. Applying Sixths
31. Harmonizing With Tenths
32. Tenths As Skeletal Chords
33. Using Tenths With Open Strings
34. Unisons
35. Octaves
36. Octave Examples
37. TRICKS AND TECHNIQUES