Chords for Lesson #1 - Mountain Dulcimer Introduction

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Hi, Brett Ridgway here, and this is the first official
Lesson in the learning for life series, so what we're going to do in this lesson is just cover some basics
Just to get you started, and we'll start with how to hold the instrument.
You don't want to hold the instrument like this _
Parallel to you what you want to do is you want to pull this _
Back end into your hip and you want the first fret over your left knee
The reason you don't want it like this
Or even like this because if you're fretting and pushing down here
This is lifting up that end of the instrument whereas if you have this over your knee this into your hip
It's at a good angle for fretting and it gives you stability for your instrument, _ _ _ so let's talk about your scales your scale
Just go straight up with the exception of the sixth the sixth fret, but if you pick it open you have
We'll say do just to start [E] do
Ray me [F#] so blah skip the six six and a half
_ [Gm] right no _ _
[Em] D e [G] f sharp [A] g a
[B] _ B C [D] sharp D.
I'm not so concerned about that as
open [C#] one two [Em] three [F#m] four five [Gm] six and a half seven
_ [N] Some people put numbers on their instrument.
I would not recommend that we're only talking
_ seven notes
Seven actually we're talking less than that because you don't have the open numbered
But you know you have too long a short at your third
too long and three short
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_ _ This is tuned DAD, and that's what these lessons will be in is DAD so open one two three four five
_ Six and a half and seven so too long [D] a short too long three short and then your instrument
_ Duplicates itself too long short too long three short _ _ _ _
Okay, so let's do a scale you're gonna play [E] open [A#] one two [A] three four five
Six and a half and seven [D] _ _ _ _
the way [Em] I would recommend you play that is I always and you want to be consistent
But I always you don't have to but I always put my ring finger on one
I always fret one with my ring finger, [D] so you're playing it open
[Em] Ring finger, [G] and this is a bit of a stretch [F#] so this falls naturally so I use my pointer finger on to
_ [Gm] Slide up to three [A] slide up to four you're not lifting [B] your finger slide up to five
[F#m] Six [Gm] and a half and then seven going back down
I'm using my pointer finger on seven and this fits, [C#m] so I'm using my middle finger
_ [Em] ring finger
[E] _ ring [F#m] ring ring [D] ring
If for some reason I was playing and my first note was on this too
I would use my [F#] ring here and because [Em] this fits use my middle [Gm] finger _
[F#m] Then my pointer _ [A] _ _ [F#] _ _ _
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that's actually a very good exercise right [D] there _ _
_ Let's do that briefly open [Em] one
[A#] two with your pointer [Gm] three
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Four with your pointer back down to [Gm] three with your middle [F#] two with your ring
[E] Two [D] _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ more things your tune DAD you can do the same thing on the bass [D] string [F#] _ _ _
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_ then finally
with your right hand
For what we're doing now.
I would not free float in other words.
I wouldn't I wouldn't do that
I would anchor and you can anchor by putting your pinky and your ring or your ring either one
like this or like this on the side of
The of the neck here of the fretboard
Some people put it here
But I put it on the side and what I want you to do is instead of just going out out out out
I want you to go out [Em] _ [C#] back [Gm] out back [B] out
back out [Gm]
back [D#] out [Bm] back out [Am] back [F#m] out back [D] out
Back _ _
_ [A#] out [A] back out back out back [E] out
_ [D] back out _ _
so I hope that gets you off to a start and
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