Slide Dulcimer
Yes, you can! In DAD!
Please note: I have been made aware that
the "play sound" links on this page do not work with Mozilla Firefox,
Google Chrome, or Apple Safari. I have tested it successfully with Internet
Explorer 9. I will look into what I can do about these other browsers.
For an example, Click the button to hear "DAD
Blues"
It's easy to play cool licks using slide on a mountain Dulcimer in DAD. To
play Slide Dulcimer, all you need is a slide and some tips.
For the past few years, I've been performing Slide Dulcimer and offering
workshops on playing Slide at Dulcimer Festivals in the Northeast. I use DAD
tuning and an ordinary mountain dulcimer, fully playable in the
"normal" way. (sometimes if I'm going to play a whole song in slide,
I'll jack up the action by putting something under the strings).
Workshop participants catch on quickly, and have a great time. I decided to
put together a collection of the TABS I use in the workshop along with some text
explaining how you hold the slide and use it on the strings. It's not a book,
more like a pamphlet, with four pages of text and five of tabs. Readers will
want to be familiar with TAB for dulcimer, and since all the TABS are in DAD,
any dulcimer can be used.
In addition to the tabs and explanatory material, I've posted recordings of
myself playing each of the pieces here (below). Except for "Exercise
1" and "Slide a Simple Song", each recording has two or more
repetitions, the first one quite strictly following the tab and the later ones
adding some fill strums and embellishments.
So...what's for sale here?
The instructional pamphlet on playing Slide Dulcimer. The booklet discusses some of the many things you can use for
slides, or you can get one like the picture right here.
Anyone can listen to the recordings by clicking the links at the bottom of
the page..
Cost: $6.00 + $2.00 shipping and handling (in the United States) If you add
other items from the Carrot Creek Store that have 2.00 shipping, the whole
order ships for $2.00
Note to International customers: at present, we are unable to ship outside
the United States. We hope to have this ability after April 1, 2011.
If you need a slide, I have the Dunlop #220 guitar slide available for
$7.50. You don't really really need this (and if you are buying the
booklet, check below for a better deal); you can use anything metal or
glass with at least one smooth, straight side (I recommend a spark-plug
socket), but if you want a slide dedicated to your dulcimer (and don't want to
find yourself out on the road, needing to change a spark plug(!), and smacking your
forehead because the socket is in your dulcimer case), then this will do the
trick:
But wait, there's more! Save a buck and buy the slide and the book together!
just click here.
Check out using this button:
Recordings from the TABs in the instructional materials.
The recordings are definitely lo-fi, through a cheap microphone and recorded
using Windows Sound Recorder. But they give the general idea.
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