Flagstaff, AZ

Practice Information

Date:  December 11, 2025
Time:  12pm to 2pm
Place: Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation 
Looking forward to seeing you there.  I Know we can surprise Mary with our progress when she comes back to Flagstaff. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I am grateful for our Dulcimer group.
Mimi Chang.

Material for Practice 

TUNES:
 Bile Them Cabbage Down
 Go Tell Aunt Rhodie - Easy Version
 Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm
 I'll Fly Away
 Michael Row the Boat Ashore
 Pretty Peggy Martin
 Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - Easiest
 
Christmas Tunes:
 Away in a Manger
 Silent Night with Beginner Chords (Lyrics and chords only)
 
EXERCISES:
 Strumming Practice #1
 Scale with Chords - Mixolydian

        News / Updates / Up Coming Events 

UPDATES:
Updates from Mary:
Welcome to our new player, Victoria Allen, who attended on November 13.  Our group is growing!

Good news:  Our webmaster for the Tucson Dulcimer Ensemble (TDE), Bob Bush, has set up a page on that site for our Flagstaff group!  It will make it easier for us to keep up with our assignments and to access resources on the TDE website as well. 

New assignment: This Old Man.  Learn this one by ear, from the video. https://youtu.be/10OmU1Nd5yQ?si=uCjlPGKPr8rLu38u

No Tab is used. (Tab is short for tablature, the dulcimer notation system.)  All fretting in this video is only on the melody string; easy!  There is a great view of the teacher's hands on camera. You can pause and back up as many times as you need. Notice that she has a ‘one and a half’ fret, so she skips over that fret to get to the two fret. 

Notice places where she plays on the in stroke as well as out stroke  - for the faster notes (eighth notes) sometimes in the melody, and sometimes in the rhythm fills.

New sheet music to try: Michael Row the Boat Ashore.  I have highlighted the melody notes.  At first, play just those.  The other notes that make the page look busy are rhythm fills (using rhythm patterns we practiced) and chords we practiced. Take those on when you are ready.  It helps to learn the melody if you sing along as you play.  
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