Sample Tune:
"Keven's
Coma”
Composed & Performed by Joellen Lapidus on Mountain Dulcimer,
Yvette Devereaux on Violin, Gordon Peeke on Spoons on
her NEW CD ‘Dulcimer Music for the Pelican
Ballet’ www.lapidusmusic.com
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9:00 - 10:00 am Learn basic skills, get an understanding of the layout and learn a tune or two to start or restart your hammered dulcimer playing.
Brenda Hunter
“Simply Awesome Tunes”
9:00 - 10:00 am (In Conference Room: See Other Workshops 1)
Advanced Beginner/ Intermediate – If you have taken even
1 Absolute Beginner HD workshop – you belong in this
class
The key word here is “simple”. Great tunes aren’t
necessarily difficult tunes.
Expand your repertoire with some fun, distinctive, and
easy to learn tunes. We will do some learning by ear
first but copies of the tunes will be provided.
Patti Amelotte “Quick
and Easy Tunes for the Hammered Dulcimer”
10:15 - 11:15 am
All tunes are fun to play on the HD--right?--but not all
are easy. In this class we'll work on a set of
traditional tunes that are nicely compact, easy to
memorize, and accessible to beginning players.
Ruth Smith “Dulcimer
Layout & Tips for New Players"
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Are you intimidated by the “sea of strings” on your
hammered dulcimer? We’ll start from the beginning and
cover topics YOU would like to know, including how
brilliantly simple the layout is on the dulcimer.
According to class interests, we’ll cover hammers,
tuning, technique, chords, and more, plus we’ll learn a
great beginner tune.
Karen Harvey “Farewell
to Tarwathie"
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Learn Farewell to Tarwathie, a beautiful Scottish
sailing tune that has a story theme conceptually related
to Veteran’s Day. You’ll include a repeating baseline
for the tune and practice triplets and flams for
embellishments. If time, you will also learn an English
sailing tune with a beautiful, haunting melody, Rounding
the Horn, which pairs nicely with Farewell to Tarwathie.
By the end of the class, you will have the sheet music
and an opportunity to record both tunes.
Hammered Dulcimer 2
Ruth Smith “Arranging
Holiday Music"
9:00 - 10:00 am
The hammered dulcimer is the perfect instrument for
Christmas music. Learn various embellishments (including a
little hand independence work) for the hauntingly beautiful
Appalachian Christmas melody, "I Wonder as I Wander."
Ruth Smith “Playing
with Expression”
10:15 - 11:15 am
Learn to play with greater expressiveness. We'll study
specific arranging tools and exercises to help accentuate
the beauty in melody lines and emphasize the underlying
theme of the music. Repertoire will be drawn from
expressive, lyrical music. (a slow air, waltz, or lament)
Brenda Hunter “Swedish
Tunes”
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Looking for something different? These Swedish tunes are fun to
play and sound great on the dulcimer. We will learn a polska
(different than a Polka!) and a march.
Ruth Smith & Steve Smith “Blue
Ridge Mountain Music”
2:45 - 3:45pm HDs & All Acoustic Instruments! Team taught with Steve Smith, multi-instrumentalist!
Learn the song "Blue Ridge Mountain Sky", written by Steve and a
traditional mountain song "My Home's Across the Blue Ridge
Mountains" while learning how to put that mountain feel on your
own music. Vocal lyrics, melodies, and backup playing will be
taught. Singers and all acoustic instruments welcome.
Fretted Dulcimer 1 (Fretted/ Mountain/ Appalachian Dulcimer =
different names for the same instrument)
Ellen Hahn “From the
Very Beginning" (2 hour workshop)
9:00 - 11:15 am
We will be starting from the beginning in this class,
learning how to hold, strum, fret, and tune your Mountain
Dulcimer. You’ll learn how to read tab, and use back up
chords, time and rhythm to play fiddle tunes. Bring your
Mountain Dulcimer, a pick and a tuner if you have one. Come
join us!
Heidi Muller “Easy
Waltzes”
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Learn how to strum with a dancing lilt on slow, pretty songs
played in three-quarter time. Working with strum patterns
and dynamics to create a pleasant flow, we’ll play some
simple tunes from around the world with easy one-finger
melodies and a few simple chords.
Joellen Lapidus “Absolute
Beginners Class”
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Learn 2 rhythms, 3 chords, how to read tablature and little
fingerpicking. All the basics you need to start your
dulcimer career!
Fretted Dulcimer 2
Heidi Muller “Calypso!”
9:00 - 10:00 am
Put yourself in a carefree mood playing tunes with a
syncopated calypso strum. We’ll learn about air strums and
different strumming patterns while we channel our inner
Jimmy Buffett on songs like the Sloop John B, Jamaican
Farewell, and Yellow Bird.
Heidi Muller & Bob Webb “All
Together Now”
10:15 - 11:15 am For Mountain Dulcimer and All Instruments! Team taught
Add some fun tunes to your repertoire! Learn both melody and
backup from Heidi and Bob, as they share tips for bringing
out the best in your playing. They’ll provide dulcimer tab
with standard notation and chords, and have additional
guitar and mandolin tab available.
Joellen Lapidus “The
Exhilarating Rhythm Bootcamp"
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Get your strumming hand in shape! Learn the difference
between 2/4 (hoedown), 3/4 (waltzing), 6/8 ( jigs and maybe
even an Indian raga). We'll work on speed, clarity and
learning how improvise with rhythm to make any song more fun
and interesting. If there's a song you want to spice up
rhythmically, email me a copy in tablature and we'll make it
sizzle!
Bob Webb “Chord Shapes
and Capos” (Intermediate FD)
1:30 - 2:30 pm (In Conference Room: See Other Workshops 1)
Learn the underlying principles that will free your left
hand from being chained to the lower end of your fretboard.
Bob will demonstrate the four basic chord shapes as they
progress up the fretboard. He will also show how chord
positions relate to playing with a capo when it is placed on
the 1st, 3rd, and 4th frets. Learn how to play songs and
chord progressions in the keys of E minor, G major, A major,
and A minor.
Heidi Muller “West
Virginia Fiddle Tunes"
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Enjoy playing some toe-tapping, old-time music from West
Virginia’s fiddle tradition in the keys of D, G and A. Learn
tunes from the Hammons Family, Harvey Sampson and other
legendary West Virginia fiddlers using strums, slides,
hammers and pulls. Please bring a capo.
Other Workshops 1
Brenda Hunter
““Simply Awesome Tunes”
9:00 - 10:00 am
(In Conference Room)
Advanced Beginner/ Intermediate – If you have taken even
1 Absolute Beginner HD workshop – you belong in this
class
The key word here is “simple”. Great tunes aren’t
necessarily difficult tunes.
Expand your repertoire with some fun, distinctive, and
easy to learn tunes. We will do some learning by ear
first but copies of the tunes will be provided.
Terry Gucwa “Moods,
Modes, and Choices"
10:15 - 11:15 am Open to All Instruments, Singers and
Non-Musicians!
After an overview of a few of the modes commonly used in
American and European folk music, and how mode suggests
mood, we’ll examine the chords to a waltz by a well-known
contemporary folk music composer. We’ll hear how
accompanying chords contribute to the haunting mood and
unique character of this composition. Then we’ll take an
unpublished waltz melody without chord symbols and, as a
group, propose, debate, and vote on our own set of chords
for the melody. Open to all instruments, vocalists, and
even non-musicians who want to participate in our chord
selection committee.
Bob Webb “Chord Shapes
and Capos” (Intermediate FD)
1:30 - 2:30 pm (In Conference Room)
Learn the underlying principles that will free your left
hand from being chained to the lower end of your fretboard.
Bob will demonstrate the four basic chord shapes as they
progress up the fretboard. He will also show how chord
positions relate to playing with a capo when it is placed on
the 1st, 3rd, and 4th frets. Learn how to play songs and
chord progressions in the keys of E minor, G major, A major,
and A minor.
Dennis Hergert & Patti Amelotte “
ASK US: DULCIMER Services & Support for Fretted and Hammered
Dulcimers"
2:45 - 3:45 pm FREE WORKSHOP! Open to All! Q&A: Bring in your Fretted and
Hammered Dulcimer questions, and Dennis and Patti will try
to answer i.e. how to restring, causes of buzzing, care and
maintenance, how to choose an instrument or stand, advice on
minor adjustments/ repairs.
Dennis Hergert – Fretted Dulcimer luthier -
surprisingfolk@gmail.com Patti Amelotte - Hammered Dulcimer Services
-
http://www.pattiamelotte.com
Other Workshops 2
Steve Smith “Ukulele
Tunes & Techniques” (Adv Beg/Intermed)
9:00 - 10:00 am
Learn the variety and styles of music that can be played on
the ukulele with an assortment of chords, strums, and
fingerpicking patterns. You’ll learn and get to use these
techniques on Hawaii's Israel 'Iz' Kamakawiwo'ole’s
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
Steve Smith “Songwriting” (Open
to All)
10:15 - 11:15 am
Steve, an ASCAP award winning songwriter, shares the steps
and methods for creating a well-crafted song, both lyrics
and music. Students will learn to start writing a song from
just an idea, build that idea into a complete,
well-structured song, and finally how to rewrite until the
song is all that it can and should be. The crucial art of
creating music that sets the right emotional platform for
your lyrics will be explained and demonstrated.
Steve Smith “How to
Accompany Others on Guitar ”(All levels)
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Learn the key factors needed to make your guitar and the
other instrument involved sound as though they are one
instrument. How to follow and support the lead instrument
with complimentary chord progressions and leading runs will
be taught, along with how to play with dynamics and
expression.
Ross Altman with Leo Kretzner “When
a Soldier Makes It Home: Songs for Veterans and Their
Families"
2:45 - 3:45 pm
In honor of Veterans Day and our veterans, Ross will lead
songs and share stories of veterans from a number of
America’s wars over the past 241 years—going all the way
back to the American Revolution. Some are well known in the
modern folk repertoire and many others more recent and
novel. Leo will be accompanying Ross on some songs and
showing the fretted dulcimer chords for these. Join Ross and
Leo for a musical tribute to the service of all veterans!
Bring any instrument or just come to sing!
Other Workshops 3
Dana Whitney “Autoharp
9:00 - 10:00 am
This is a Beginning workshop and your chance to try
Autoharp! Participants are encouraged to bring their own
autoharps to the workshop, but loaner instruments will be
available for up to eight students during the workshop, as
well. We will cover the basics about autoharps and about
Autoharp! autoharp playing, such as tuning, what kinds of
autoharps there are, and most important and fun -- how to
play one!!!! We will learn a song or two and will provide
words and chords for those songs.
Gregg Schneeman “Bowed
Psaltery”
10:15 - 11:15 am
Gregg will bring his collection of many Bowed Psalteries and
bows for people to use during the workshop. He will cover
from the introduction for beginners to the advanced, two-bow
style of playing. No previous musical experience required!
Gregg was declared the National Bowed Psaltery champion in
2012.
See Gregg’s Bowed Psaltery and Mountain Dulcimer Videos on
his YouTube Channel “Gregg Schneeman”.
Bill Dempsey “How Can I
Keep from Singing"
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Group singing workshop with Bill, master of participation
music! He accompanies himself and others on fretted
dulcimer/ guitar/ 5 string banjo/ harmonica/ trombone/
pocket trumpet/ cajon/ etc! Join in for all the fun!
Bill has a brand new CD out, “Bill Dempsey – Dulcimer” with
vocals and all mountain dulcimer.
http://billdempseymusic.com
Kathryn LaMar “Ancient
Music Circle – Drums & Flutes"
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Want to have a positive experience with music that is no
work and ALL FUN? Connect with your soul and entrain to the
rhythms of the universe? Come to our “Ancient Music” (drum
and flute) circle! If you have a beating heart, you can play
drums and other percussion, and if you can blow out a
candle, you can play the Native American Style Flute.
Together, we will learn basic sounds on the drum and how to
play a pentatonic minor scale (fancy words for five notes)
on the flute. Then we'll explore universal rhythms
accompanied by your very own melodies! No experience
necessary, instruments provided. Your own instruments are
welcome, as are observers.
"Free" Activities - Participate or Listen -
Open Jams, Mid-Day Concert, Workshop on Jamming, Community Jam
Marianne Scanlon (HD, guitar) “OPEN
JAM LEADER"
9:00 -11:00 am All acoustic instruments welcome in this INDOOR jam in
Fellowship Hall, near the food area. Bring your favorite
music resources such as Fiddlers Fake Book or play by ear.
All are fine.
Coloring For All Ages!
“Souvenirs"
9:00 am - 11:15 am and 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Fellowship Hall
Dennis Hergert & Patti Amelotte “
ASK US: DULCIMER Services & Support for Fretted and Hammered
Dulcimers"
2:45 - 3:45 pm Open to All! Q&A: Bring in your Fretted and
Hammered Dulcimer questions, and Dennis and Patti will try
to answer i.e. how to restring, causes of buzzing, care and
maintenance, how to choose an instrument or stand, advice on
minor adjustments/ repairs. Dennis Hergert – Fretted Dulcimer Luthier -
surprisingfolk@gmail.com Patti Amelotte - Hammered Dulcimer Services
-
http://www.pattiamelotte.com
Patty McCollom (Fiddle, Whistle, Banjo) “OPEN
JAM LEADER"
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm All acoustic instruments welcome! in this INDOOR jam in
Fellowship Hall, near the food area. Bring your favorite
music resources such as Fiddlers Fake Book or play by ear.
All are fine.
Bill Dempsey “Playing
Together - Focus on Fretted Dulcimers" - Beginning/Early
Intermediate 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
FREE WORKSHOP on Jamming!
Open to ALL ACOUSTIC
INSTRUMENTS& ALL LEVELS!
Tips covered on how to: join in on tunes; follow the rhythm;
jam etiquette; simplify tunes on the spot; listen to other
players; build a repertoire; suggestions for tune/song
resources; start a tune when it’s your turn; counting in/
potatoes/ other starts. This workshop will include running
through some simpler jam tunes!!
Barbara Gershman (HD) & Terry Gucwa (Cello)
“Free
Community Jam"
4:00-5:00 pm
All levels!
All acoustic instruments welcome!
Terry Gucwa's Jam Book
Fiddlers Fake Book
Stephen
Seifert’s Join the Jam Book
Your favorite music or ‘by ear’ tunes are all fine!
See the JAM TUNE LIST
on the scdh.org website for ideas.