Hammer Dulcimer and Mountain Dulcimer lessons with Peggy Carter!
From beginner to advanced.
"NEW, Peggy Carter's Festival/Workshop Topics"
Books & Custom Arrangements by Peggy Carter
Private and group lessons
available, as well as
Lessons by mail. Call or
email
Peggy for details. (281-370-9495).
*NEW* Special Arrangements with play-along CD's! HD tunes - MD tunes.
*NEW* In order to get to know the folks who enjoy my free arrangements, I have placed all but the featured tune of the month in another area that is reserved for those of you who will kindly take a moment to send email to THIS address (freemusic@peggycarter.com) to request the username and password.(*alternately, in case you do not receive a timely response, please email my web designer) Also, I can add you to my updates and news email list and keep you abreast of "happenings" around here:). If you don't care to receive regular emails from me, just mention that in your request for the user/password. THANKS!
Peggy's FREE Music Place (you will need the login info here that you may request here)
**Scroll down on this page for the "Featured Free Music of the Month" as well as some great learning tools!
SCOTTISH MUSIC!
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*NEW*If you like Scottish tunes, please see Peggy's Scottish Tune List. For always reasonable fees, you can obtain a complete repertoire of Scottish music! Most of the arrangements are on a Novice/Intermediate level, but the Strathspeys may be more toward advanced.
No tune over $2 if emailed as a PDF.
Discounts for 6 tunes or more.
For orders of more than 6 titles (snail mailed), please add $3.95 for s/h. I can
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*Featured FREE music of the month*
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*Hammer Dulcimer lessons and sheet music: *to make use of this music, you may either print from the webpage or right click and choose "save-as" to download the file to your computer. |
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Numbering System (similar to tablature)
Beginner Lessons:
Intermediate Lesson and Arrangements:
Advanced: |
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*Mountain Dulcimer tablature |
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Beginner MD Lesson Understanding the Scale in DAD
Intermediate Lesson: Understanding Scales and Modes Star of the County Down (Dm - DAC tuning)
Advanced MD Lessons: |
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Don't forget to check out the FREE MUSIC page, there's NEW stuff there too!!!
You need Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program,
to view the PDF files, download it here
Each lesson includes about 30 - 40 min. of actual instruction in which
I'll play and talk you through each phrase to instruct you on which hand
leads, and which bridge you should be playing on. Then I'll play the
whole section slowly. Then we do the next section the same way. Then we
pick up the pace and play the whole thing from the beginning. Most
lessons include 2 or three pieces, but some lessons are entirely working
on one skill or technique.
I include notation with all of the pieces, and sometimes I use a
numbering system which I will explain. This system assigns a number to
each string, so that whether you read music, or not, you will know where
that note is to be played. The way I talk you through the piece is very
much like the way I present the piece in a workshop or a private lesson.
Each lesson is $15 (about half the cost of a private lesson) and
you, of course, can go back and do it over and over again, taking time
to make sure that you're getting it right. I send three lessons in a
packet and the cost is $45 plus s/h. . I’ll give you the address to
send a check or money order. Or you may now order by phone with your
credit card!
Call me at 281-370-9495 if you have any questions.
When you're ready, I'll send another packet of 3 lessons. If you'd like
to record some of your music on a cassette tape or CD and send it to me
I'll do a critique to help you perfect and polish the pieces you're
working on, or you can just send for the next 3 lessons. I usually
expect to send 4 or 5 packets a year, but some folks work more slowly
and only get a packet every 6 months. Others work faster and a 3-lesson
packet only lasts them a month. You're not obligated to purchase any
more packets, but if your learning style and my teaching style are
working for you, we can accomplish a lot by mail.
I’m happy to answer questions between lessons, and if you want to set up
a time for a telephone lesson, I’ll pay for the phone call and You pay
me (by check ,money order or credit card) $25 for a 30-min. phone lesson.
Scroll down and Check out all the titles below, then check out the NEW titles from these links.
And
New
Play Along Series For HD!
*FREE Samples!!! Click
on any highlighted title and get a free sample!*
MD E-Lesson
List PDF file
For HD Beginners:
“Square One”
E-Lessons, click on the link for a PDF with all details and prices!
HD Lessons for Beg. II
"Hammer Hands" E-Lessons, click on the link for a PDF with all details and prices!
Intermediate HD Lessons:
Int. A La Carte Lessons" $15 each + s/h (Order more than one and get "combined shipping" prices)
Call Peggy with your order and credit card information at 281-370-9495."
1. Beyond Melody - Learn the secret of "Instant Harmony"; the "Clawhammer
Dulcimer" (a banjo-style lick); using drones; and embellishment I call
"Over and Under" which uses upper neighbors, lower neighbors and passing
tones. The pieces in this lesson are easy, but the embellishments can be
used with many other tunes: You Are My Sunshine; Brother John;
Old Dan
Tucker; Old Joe Clark; Skp To My Lou; and Liza Jane.
2. Blueberry Rhythms - Using rhythmic Embellishments to
"decorate" your tunes. You will play a
rhythm practice, work on the
right-hand lead and the left-hand lead, both. Then we'll learn 4 tunes
that use these rhythms: Black Them Boots; Bonapart's Retreat; Columbus
Stockade; and Black Mountain Rag.
3. Chord Shapes - to use for playing back-up, or to add
embellishments to the melody. You'll learn "intervals" and a little
scale theory; Chord Shapes (Diamonds, triangles, and "the shed"; and
we'll work on chord progressions in they Key of D and in G.
4. Learning chords to embellish Go Tell Aunt Rhody, Unclouded
Day, and Will The Circle Be Unbroken.
5. Rx For The Lazy Left Hand - Using notation and pictures, we'll
work on a challenging exercize to build up your confidence and accuracy
with your left hand; then we'll work on exercises to help you play jigs
and reels with the proper technique.
6. Harmonizing With Intervals on Over The Waterfall, Nightingale
and My Shepherd
7. Embellishing With Drones and Scale Tones on Ragtime Annie, Old
Joe Clark and Maggie.
8. Playing Reels and Jigs - Learn drills that help develop the
proper technique for playing these two very popular dance styles. You'l
learn Whiskey Before Breakfast; Drowsy Maggie; Regan's Jig; Swallowtail
Jig and John Stinson Reel #2.
9. Using Chords To Embellish Two Gospel Hymns
Teaching The Chords
Unclouded Day
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
10. Harmonizing With Intervals
Over The Waterfall (A contradance tune)
Nightingale (A Renaissance Waltz)
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (A hymn setting for the 23rd Psalm)
HD Lessons for Int. II - Adv.
FREE
sample:
A La Nanita Nana
1. Two Celtic Hymns
Llydaw and St Denis
2. Three Irish Tunes and a Contemporary Aire
Danny Boy
Rattlin' Bog
Tipperary So Far Away
Far Away by Peter Jung
3. Four Irish Tunes (2 Aires, a reel and a Polka)
Rakes Of Mallow
Mountains Of Mourne
Cliffs Of Dooneen
Dennis Murphy's Polka
4. Three Irish Songs and Jig
Tura Lura Lura
Wild Irish Rose
Maggie
Morrison's Jig
5. A Scottish Lament:
Neil Gow's Lament For The Death Of His Second Wife
You can pay by check or money order: Mail to:
Peggy Carter
16142 Hexham Dr.
Spring TX 77379
Feel free to call for more details. 281-370-9495
Want to
be able to do what 30 years of experience does for really GREAT players?
Remember the saying "practice makes perfect"? Well, it isn't exactly
true.... the TRUTH is.....
"Perfect practice makes perfect playing". If you practice incorrectly or
carelessly, you are perfecting the incorrect skill or careless
technique.
Everyone should make sure the way they're practicing is perfecting their
playing.... not just practicing the same thing, doing it the same way,
and getting nowhere. You can't expect to get different or better
results if you keep doing things the same way you've always done them.
To get different or better results, you must sometimes go back to the
drawing board and learn a new approach to improving that specific skill
or technique.
This is true of EVERY skill... not just dulcimer playing. :—)
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