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Karen Mueller (MD & Autoharp)

* Fri 1 Adv MD: Irish Styles Explore the variety of Irish dance tunes both melodically and with rhythms and chords, including jigs, reels and polkas. Tuning: DAD, bring capo.
* Sat 3 Begin MD: Fiddle Tunes Learn some fun tunes and their backup chords to get you jamming! Tuning: DAD.
* Sat 4 Intermed MD: Waltzes Three lovely traditional and contemporary tunes in 3/4 time to get your spirits soaring. Tuning: DAD.
* Sat 5 Autoharp From strumming solid rhythms to picking melodies and beyond, come see how it's done and join in. All levels, with some basic experience preferred. Come in tune with finger and thumb picks. Bring any type of autoharp; diatonics need keys of G, D and C.

Dan Landrum (HD)
* Fri 1 Begin HD Simple sound, simply beautiful - One of the things that attracts all of us to hammered dulcimer is its pure, sweet voice. We'll examine simple tonal relationships on hammered dulcimer and learn exercises that will help you navigate your instrument with ease and confidence.
* Sat 3 Intermed HD It's Time we get together. - If your rythm and timing is off, it doesn't matter if you strike all the right notes. The exercises in this class will help you discover how practicing with a metronome can be a positive experience.
* Sat 4 Adv HD Rudimental approach to continued advancement. We'll learn complex rudiments and associated exercises that are fundamental to fluent hammering.
* Sat 5 Int-Adv HD Repertoire We'll learn the Beatles tune(s), Norwegian Wood (and Eleanor Rigby if we have enough time).

Kim McKee (MD & HD)
* Sat 3 Advanced HD Hand Equality, hammer exercises for definition and expression: using the tuneTempestad. Dampers or tape required. (medical tape leaves no residue)
* Sat 4 Fingerpicking Adv MD Left hand skills for fingerpicking "Right Hand Gone Missing" using the tune Gary Owen to play both melody and harmony.
* during Sat Afternoon Jam Performance Class both instruments welcome.
* Sat 5 Intermediate HD Hand Equality: hammer exercises for definition and expression using the tune Tortilla Flats. Dampers or tape required. (medical tape leaves no residue)

Bonnie Carol (MD and HD)

* Fri 1 Intermed MD MODES, KEYS, AND TUNINGS: UNDERSTANDING THE MODES and KEYS AND HOW TO TUNE TO THEM. The secret to being able to play all sorts of music in many styles is to understand how the diatonic scale can be used to its fullest extent.
The use of various tunings, capos, and keys makes the dulcimer a most versatile instrument! Learn how to tune to any mode and key available. Any level mountain dulcimer.
* Sat 3 Adv MD Advanced Arranging music for various applications: to play in performance, to play with other dulcimers, or to play with other instruments. Students may bring a tune for the group to work on and we'll pick a few and see what we can collectively do with it. This is partly a
class in inspiring and using your creativity.
* Sat 4 Begin MD Rounds It's my experience that almost all of us learn to play music because we want to play with others and some of the most beautiful and rewarding pieces to play with others are rounds. We'll learn a few and divide into groups and play them. You'll learn to hang on to your own part while hearing others, how to start and finish a round with a flourish, and most importantly that inspiring skill of communicating with old friends and new through music.
* Sat 5 Adv HD MAKING MAGIC IN PERFORMANCE: How to prepare a piece of music for performance for an audience from you and your cat to a stadium of 10,000. Emphasizing the meaningful parts or the "news" of pieces of music, giving the songs their voices. Determining what's meaningful about a song for you and making the song meaningful to you and to
others. Students may bring a piece of music to perform, a piece they would like to "make magic" with, and the class can critique the piece.

Tina Gugeler (HD)

* Fri 1 Adv HD We'll do some Hand Independence tunes: El Condor Pasa and Douce Dame Jolé
* Sat 3 Begin HD We will work on scales and chord patterns, simple back-up, modulating keys with some beginning tunes.
* Sat 4 Intermed HD Using Snowy Path, a celtic slip jig, we will add harmonies.
* Sat 5 Begin HD Repertoire we will learn some commonly played tunes and their back up ideas, i.e., Red Haired Boy, Liberty, Swallowtail jig, and possibly a few others, depending on what you already know.

Steve Eulberg (MD, HD and Host)

* Fri 1 Intermed HD Prelude to the Fun! Parallel Hand patterns & exercises (building blocks for hand separation--which is the fun stuff!) Lullabye of Muffe
* Sat 3 Intermed MD Blues! on the Mountain Dulcimer: chords, scales, Kansas City
* Sat 4 Beginning HD Layout of the instrument, Modes, patterns with Grey Cat on a Tennesee Farm & Cluck Old Hen
* Sat 5 Mountain Dulcimer Orchestra (all levels) Bring your Ginger/Dulcimette, your Baritone, your Bass and your standard Mountain Dulcimers and we'll play the sweet music in sweet harmony together with arrangements designed for 4 distinct parts.

Let us know if you are an Absolute Beginner and we'll have instruction for you!

In addition, we'll have special workshops:

Autoharp with Karen Mueller (Sat 5)

2 Guitar sessions with Ken Willson: Celtic Guitar (Sat 3); Backing up other instruments with Guitar (Sat 4)

NEW CLASS: During the Saturday Afternoon Jam, Kim McKee will lead a Performance Workshop to focus on all the issues that preparing for and carrying through a Performance of music raises. For all levels of both kinds of dulcimers.

Please send an e-mail to Steve with your Workshop/Jam Choices.

Skill Levels Defined:

ABSOLUTE BEGINNER MD: No previous dulcimer experience nor musical background necessary.

BEGINNER LEVEL MD: You know how to hold your instrument, and can strum and play some simple tunes. You may not feel confident yet, but you love the music that your instrument can make! These classes will help you learn some chords, gain more comfort with your instrument and your ability to find and play tunes by ear and from music and tablature.

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL MD: You have the skills of the previous levels and you've learned the basics of strumming and reading tablature, you need to expand your playing techniques and musical theory. Learn to embellish your basic music with hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides; to adapt an arrangement with different chord positions; to play in and modulate to different keys with and without a capo or retuning; to flatpick and fingerpick a tune. You can find play in different tunings.

ADVANCED LEVEL MD: You have the skills of the other levels plus the ability to play at least 4 chords in DAD or DAA tuning, to use 2-3 fingers (left hand), and be comfortable with at least 2-3 basic rhythms, utilize melody runs on all the strings using scales, then adding arpeggios and patterns from within chords, as well as a strummed chordal melody.

ABSOLUTE BEGINNER HD: No previous dulcimer experience nor musical background necessary.

BEGINNER LEVEL HD: You know how to hold your hammers, the basic lay-out of your dulcimer and how to play within the box and are comfortable playing some simple tunes by ear and/or music. These classes will help you learn some chords, gain more comfort with your instrument and your ability to find and play tunes by ear and from music and tablature.

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL HD: You have the skills of the previous levels and you can play some simple chords. These classes will help you with ornamentation, finding those occasional wierd chromatic notes, andhammering techniques.

ADVANCED LEVEL HD: You have the the skills of the other levels plus the ability to lead with either hand, play by ear and/or music/tablature. You are very familiar with the layout of your dulcimer and can play in several major and minor keys.

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