These musicians are multi-talented. Their feet as well as their hands make music. Wednesday is the day that this group clogs before noon and then --- most of them----after sharing a lunch out---move on to wherever the group is meeting to play their dulcimers.
Marilyn has hosted the group at her home for quite some time. Madelyn has also had the group at her place, and now Mary has been so kind for a couple of weeks. Sally has the beginners group at her home on Sunday evenings. It would be nice for all of us to get together once a month or every two months to put that combined dulcimer energy out into the universe. Call Madelyn if you have a line on a meeting room large enough to house us all.
Maybe the Christmas music books we have ordered will arrive by next week so that we can start playing the list of songs we decide to work on. Be ready to speak up with your favorites.
Carole and Sylvia are preparing a couple of workshops on specific skills. The first one will be "Learning to use the basic chord positions in the key of D." The chords move up the fretboard in groups or "clusters." I do not have a scanner, so hope these pictures are clear enough that you can get started on becoming familiar with the patterns. I will have a hard copy hand out when we get together.
Don't forget that last 10 minutes of every class for solo-duet performance practice.
Do you have that extra set of strings yet? Carole says------melody----012
middle-----014
bass-----wrapped nickel 022
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