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Beginner's Tunebook:
Familiar Folktunes Arranged for Mountain Dulcimer
ISBN 0-9647222-3-2, 1996
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What makes this book distinct from other beginning dulcimer books is its emphasis on getting the learner to develop a strong rhythmic foundation from the very first tune. The mostly familiar American songs are arranged in a very simple "melody-with-drone" style that has the dual advantage of being easy to learn and of enabling beginning players to create that traditional sound that made them fall in love with the dulcimer in the first place.

Publisher's Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP) data. 48 pages, comb bound. 43 melody-only arrangements of 29 tunes: a graded approach to repertoire-building in today's two most popular dulcimer tunings, D-A-A and D-A-D melody-line-only dulcimer tablature with fret numbers and rhythm notation.

Sections:
Intro: Dulcimer fret patterns, tablature, getting into rhythm
Tuning Instructions for both tunings
Very Basic tunes (8 D-A-A, 6 D-A-D)
Three-Quarter time tunes (4 D-A-A, 3 D-A-D)
Medium-tempo (8 D-A-A, 4 D-A-D)
Fiddle tunes and other faster tunes (7 D-A-A, 4 D-A-D)
Swing eighths (3 D-A-D)
Strumming rhythm workout: 8 patterns for counting and subdividing beats, accents, outstrokes, and instrokes
Rhythm notation

Tunes (try a few yourself)
Angeline the Baker
Bile Them Cabbage Down
Billy Boy
Buffalo Gals
Camptown Races
Cripple Creek
Frere Jacques
The Girl I Left Behind
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Good King Wenceslas
Jamie Allen
Li'l Liza Jane
Loch Lomond
Long, Long Ago
Lovely Evening
Oh Susannah
On Top of Old Smoky
Pretty Saro
Red River Valley
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Shortnin' Bread (two arrangements)
Simple Gifts
Skip to My Lou
Streets of Laredo
This Old Man
Three Blind Mice
Twinkle, Twinkle
Waterbound

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