Slide Dulcimer

Yes, you can! In DAD!

For an example, Click HERE 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.

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?

1. A Dunlop 220 guitar slide, suitable for playing Slide Dulcimer. This is a tube-type slide, used by guitarists by wearing it on a finger, but dulcimer players will hold it as described in the pamphlet.

2. The instructional pamphlet on playing Slide Dulcimer.

Anyone can listen to the recordings by clicking the links below.

Cost: $11.00 + $3.25 shipping and handling (in the United States - use my Ebay store -- click here -- for international sales)

Please check out our listing on EBay; we are currently selling these slide books and slides only through EBay Click HERE to get the book. NOTE: I'm temporarily out of slides. (7/4/08) I will re-order on Monday, 7/7, and put them back up on ebay when I get them. (Probably one week).

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 impressive, in my opinion, nonetheless.