Lessons with Peggy Carter

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* E-Lessons!

Peggy's FREE Music Place (without lessons, free music and available selections for purchase)

**Scroll down on this page for the "Featured Free Lessons & Music of the Month" as well as some great learning tools!

SCOTTISH MUSIC!

A member of The Kootenai Kiltie Dancers

*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 email 6 or less, but for more than that I'll have to send them the old fashioned way.

MIDIs are available for $1 each.

*Featured FREE music of the month*

Here are some fresh, new lessons for HD and for MD. Each lesson presents a little theory, a little technique and some tunes. These are just samples of the new E-Lesson series. And here's the BEST NEWS!

1) The E- Lessons are available in sets of SIX CDs

2) Each set contains 5 (Lesson) CDs — each with a lesson that teaches a little theory, a little technique and a few tunes

3) PLUS One CD which contains PDFs of the music sheets used in all of the lessons

4) You pay only $60 per set (thats only $10 per lesson and $10 for the packet with the music sheets!)

5) You can pay by Money Order, Check or Credit Card (MC or Visa)

6) If you pay by Money Order or Check I will pay the s/h

° Be sure and check out the link to the free arrangements (below your FREE lessons)

° Take a look at the new "Special Occasions" book just put out by Mel Bay (Books page

° Here's an idea! HD players, feel free to use the MD arrangements. They all have standard notation, and you can expand your repertoire with some great new tunes!

° Check out the list of arrangements available at $2 per page... or less if you choose 10 or more from the lists on this link:

Sheet Music Collections Arranged by Theme and Player Level

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.
	Numbering System (similar to tablature) Beg. HD 1. Square One - First Steps 2. The D Box & Hot Cross Buns 3. Beginning Scales 4. Liza Jane 5. Amazing Grace in G Int. HD 1. Jig Exercizes 5,6, & 7 2. Jig Medley (Gander, Glendart & Rogue Jigs) 3. A March: British Grenadiers Adv. HD 1. Be An Ambidulcimist 2. After The Ball - A Waltz 3. O Lord Most Holy, Vocal Solo w. HD Accompaniment or HD Solo 4. Lord You Are Everything

*Mountain Dulcimer tablature

Beginner MD in DAA

1. DAA Ionian

2. Understanding Scales For MD

3. Gypsy Rover

4. Babylon

5. Be Thou My Vision

Beginner MD in DAD

1. Understand Scale in DAD

2. He's Got The Whole World

3. G Scale For MD

4. Scales & Modes for MD

5. Babylon DAA.DAD

6. Pig In A Pen DAD

7. Green Grow The Rushes-O MD

Int. MD Finger Picking & More

1. DAD Chords

2. FP Practice

3. Arran Boat Song DAD

4. Tipperary So Far DAD

5. Clinch Mt. Backstep DAD

6. Chords For Bari & Ginger MDs

Adv. MD Flat Picking & More

1. Flat-Picking Practice

2. John Tremain Reel

3. Keel Row

4. Midnight On The Water

5. Shady Grove in DAC

6. Shady Grove (Some words)

7. Si Bheag Si Mohr

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

E-Lessons by Peggy Carter

**NEW**Ultimate E-Lessons:

Beginner HD Phase One - Beginner HD Phase Two - Novice HD - Intermediate HD - Advanced HD

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.

I’ll give you the address to send a check or money order. Or you may now order by phone with your credit card!

Order any 6-CD set: Beginner, Novice, Intermediate or Advanced for $60 plus $5.95 s/h (within contiguous US)

Call me at 281-370-9495 if you have any questions.

When you're ready, I'll send another packet of 5 lessons and a CD with PDFs of the sheet music. (I will email you a list of possible lessons available at your level.). 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 5 lessons.

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 or money order) Phone lessons are $1 per minute or $25 for a 30-min. 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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