Making Time for Music
Is your schedule as busy as mine? Do you wake up realizing you haven't picked up your instrument for … days … weeks …??? It's so easy for...
Learning From Other Instruments
My first dulcimer teacher was my dad – a fledgling mandolin player. For the first several years that I played dulcimer, I didn't even...
12 Tips for Arranging on Mountain Dulcimer
Add Chords. Most music has chords written in. You simply have to find the best form of the chord to use to get the best sound &...
Learning a Song or: "What Happens When It Finally Clicks!"
What do I know? That is the question that has crossed my mind every month for the past two years that I served as the President of our...
We Need More Beginners...
We may need more beginners… I think I have playing for three years now. I have been playing long enough now that I have forgotten exactly...
Playing in the Dark
So, I was playing my dulcimer the other night as the wild, crazy, maniac, seven-year-old boys at our church camp were trying to settle...
A Performance Manifesto
The topic of PERFORMANCE has been on my mind a lot recently. GPDA had a very successful Spring Fundraiser – kudos to all who worked hard...
Too Many Tunes, Too Little Time
The excitement of the GPDA list of tunes may quickly turn to an overwhelming source of frustration for new members. As long-term GPDA...
