Left a comment a good while back but, still loving this rendition of the song because of the slower pace. Once again, a great video and song. Gonna keep listening to it for some time to come. Thanks.
Omg! Been listening to this song for the longest time on a mountain dulcimer. The slower pace of your rythm is much more easy to appreciate and get the full sense of the melody. Great music and great video. Thank you.
Wow. I love your playing of this song! and after watching your lesson and, hours of practice I still have to fight the urge to light my merlin on fire in disgrace every time I watch it!
Thank you for this. I know it has been awhile since you posted this. But wanted to let you know how much I appreciate it. This has helped with my practice with all stringed instruments. Thank you.
Sounds great, but I have to say that picking a Merlin up in store and playing it was really what made me buy one recently. The resonance through the body is just amazing, in addition to the sound.
Glad to hear you picked one up, and yes I agree. For such a small and shallow body they sound quite nice, and when using a pick I was pretty surprised how loud they can be too.
@@TomMilleyMusic I picked it up and was instantly impressed with the sound, I was playing around with some of the other ukuleles while mine was repaired and it just had such a different vibe. I think it's a nice intro to a full dulcimer, which is way out of my price range, and so portable!
Very inspiring. You get a wonderful ringing or rhyming sound (don't know the musical term) that no other merlin player I've found on you tube gets. Really superb. If I heard you playing this on a street corner I'd toss you a few bucks! (and stick around for the whole song)...
@@TomMilleyMusic you know you're good when an auditory cloud of music exudes from your instrument. You've managed to turn the many overtones of your instrument into a choir. Next step is slightly changing the fine tuning of your instrument so the clouds overall tone changes subtly. You're advanced FOR SURE. Thanks for the awesome composition
I just saw this fucking thing at Guitar Center and I'm literally gonna get one .....I went in for uke strings and I fell in love and played this thing for an hour
@@TomMilleyMusic It's a 2 hour drive one-way to a town I never have reason to go to, but we'll see. Thanks for responding. I'm watching vids and it seems really nice. Much nicer sounding than a ukulele.
Wow! All that wonderful rich sound coming from that little instrument? Do you know how to play a mandolin by chance? I bought one but I uh...don't know what to do with it. Right now it is just hanging on my wall.
Yeah I do play a bit of mandolin, this instrument is played pretty similarly to the mandolin actually. But yeah I picked up this tune from my friend who plays fiddle, and then I learned it on mandolin, and then found it sounded good on this instrument.
Well I'd say it's easier if you know a bit of mandolin, especially for instrumentals like this one, but the top two strings are the same as guitar intervals, just tuned to D. The bottom two strings are where mandolin comes in handy, as it's like playing the middle strings just an octave down. But I'm more of a guitarist than mandolinist, and I'd say the transition wasn't hard. I'd say fairly easy to get something good happening. The only thing is you can't really do blues/rock in the open position because of the diatonic fretboard, but if you start on the first fret, you can do a bit.
It's the D tuned actually, but you can tune it to other keys too within reason. I've gone down to B, and up to E. Lower starts getting too floppy and poor intonation, and higher than E just scares me lol It can probably go higher but I just don't wanna risk it.
Way easier to play up to tempo than any of those so called mountain dulcimers. I always thought that using open tunings on guitar would cover just about anything that you could play on one of those zither type instruments.The noting stick is so much slower than fingers and you can even fret two different strings or even three different strings that it is impossible to do with the stick.
To everyone asking, I put up a lesson on this song here ua-cam.com/video/Uf5mC2nHZyU/v-deo.html
Thanks everyone for watching :)
Still the best version of this song i have heard and across all instruments as well.
Thank you so much :)
You played this song so beautifully that it made me buy a Merlin. Thank you.
Just did the same
Same
I'll buy a merlin in a few months. So beautiful and so cheap :)
Same here
The quality is so so high for the money. And for under 200 you can get an one with an outstanding pick up.
I've had a Merlin for over a decade now and I still can't play it anywhere near that well.
So laid back. Keep watching this again and again. Much love for this video.
I played a Merlin at a guitar center and watching this I am tempted to get one, awesome playing!
Wonderful work! God bless you. This is awesome! 🤩🤩🤩
I'm buying a Merlin because of this video. It looks like it's a blast to mess around with.
Left a comment a good while back but, still loving this rendition of the song because of the slower pace. Once again, a great video and song. Gonna keep listening to it for some time to come. Thanks.
Love that instrument
Brilliant......I’ve got a Merlin but haven’t played it like this yet!
Omg! Been listening to this song for the longest time on a mountain dulcimer. The slower pace of your rythm is much more easy to appreciate and get the full sense of the melody. Great music and great video. Thank you.
Thank you! Much appreciated, glad you enjoyed it
Wow. I love your playing of this song! and after watching your lesson and, hours of practice I still have to fight the urge to light my merlin on fire in disgrace every time I watch it!
Lol well thank you, and never give up!
This is wonderful, and I love the sound of that instrument
Amazing!! One of my favorite songs.
Thank you for this. I know it has been awhile since you posted this. But wanted to let you know how much I appreciate it. This has helped with my practice with all stringed instruments. Thank you.
that was beautiful, I am definitely buying a Merlin now.
Sounds great, but I have to say that picking a Merlin up in store and playing it was really what made me buy one recently. The resonance through the body is just amazing, in addition to the sound.
Glad to hear you picked one up, and yes I agree. For such a small and shallow body they sound quite nice, and when using a pick I was pretty surprised how loud they can be too.
@@TomMilleyMusic I picked it up and was instantly impressed with the sound, I was playing around with some of the other ukuleles while mine was repaired and it just had such a different vibe. I think it's a nice intro to a full dulcimer, which is way out of my price range, and so portable!
Most well played Merlin on UA-cam, very fine indeed.
Thank you, much appreciated :)
Just Brilliant. Period!
Very inspiring. You get a wonderful ringing or rhyming sound (don't know the musical term) that no other merlin player I've found on you tube gets. Really superb. If I heard you playing this on a street corner I'd toss you a few bucks! (and stick around for the whole song)...
Thank you, I appreciate that :)
@@TomMilleyMusic you know you're good when an auditory cloud of music exudes from your instrument. You've managed to turn the many overtones of your instrument into a choir. Next step is slightly changing the fine tuning of your instrument so the clouds overall tone changes subtly.
You're advanced FOR SURE. Thanks for the awesome composition
sweet job
Outstanding! What a tremendous style
An interesting tool, I wanted the same one 😃
Nice playing. I like that dulcimer. The less strings the better for me to learn.
Great job!
This was great. I’m buying one of these
Really nice tune!
Phenomenal!! Nice picking and thank you for sharing. God Bless!!!
Perfect, well done.
this is awesome
This made me say “hot damn!” Out loud and unironically.
That was very cool - I love it!!
I miss my Seagull Merlin
Who could dislike this?
You make it look SO easy!
Well to be fair, I already knew how to play mandolin a bit, so I just crossed it over onto the dulcimer
What kind of asshats didn’t like this? Awesome tune man, excellently played.
I just saw this fucking thing at Guitar Center and I'm literally gonna get one .....I went in for uke strings and I fell in love and played this thing for an hour
This is really awesome I love playing guitar and I've thought about getting a Seagull at some point!
Very nice rendition.
You might have sold me on one of these.
Wow! I just came here to see what a Seagull Merlin was cause I found one that's for sale. I think I'm gonna go for it. Just 3 strings?
Well I think you should go for it :)
It does have 4 strings, but the top 2 are played as if it were one string, like on a mandolin or 12 string guitar
@@TomMilleyMusic It's a 2 hour drive one-way to a town I never have reason to go to, but we'll see. Thanks for responding. I'm watching vids and it seems really nice. Much nicer sounding than a ukulele.
How can I learn to play it? Beautiful! Thank you so much
I have a lesson for this on my channel :)
Awesome!
i have a merlin and i never played so good like that damn
Well I already knew this tune on mandolin, so kinda not fair on my part haha
Man you gotta tellcme how you learned this song, or post a tab, i just bought one and i love it
Well.. Saw this video a few weeks back.. And had to pick one up!
Seagull should have you on the payroll!
Thank you :) Glad you enjoyed it and picked one up
Great job Tom!!!
Thank you :)
very awsome
Keep it up and, "more please".
smoking! thanks
Wow! All that wonderful rich sound coming from that little instrument? Do you know how to play a mandolin by chance? I bought one but I uh...don't know what to do with it. Right now it is just hanging on my wall.
Yeah I do play a bit of mandolin, this instrument is played pretty similarly to the mandolin actually. But yeah I picked up this tune from my friend who plays fiddle, and then I learned it on mandolin, and then found it sounded good on this instrument.
this guy merlins
Wonderful!
Really nice, love it!
Safarel attie
Impressive! I’m having trouble just simply finding chords on mine lol
sounds amazing, what strings and what pic?
Just the strings that came with it, and I think it was a fender medium pick with the tortoise shell look
damn dude, that was sick
Well done. Sounds like the song was written for the Merlin.
Thanks :) A bunch of fiddle/mandolin things transfer pretty well to the merlin.
this is awesome!!! Is this the G model or the D model dulcimer?
It's the D model, and thank you
is there a name for the song? id like to hear other versions thanks. And going to try my best to learn on my Merlin once it arrives in the mail:)
Whiskey before breakfast
Any .chance you could provide the Tab for this? I'd like to give it a try.
I don't, but I'm probably going to make a lesson for it seeing as I keep getting asked for tabs :P
a lesson would be awesome in the future getting one of these and love folk music around the camp fire. thanks
I need a tab for this!
I'm going to make a lesson for it soon, stay tuned! I'm not really that good with tabs, but I'll see what I can do.
Tom Milley Music Awesome!! :)
He sure has the fingers for this
Would love to hear your version of "Drunken Sailor."
Can you break this down a bit so I can learn it? Great little ditty! Thanks for posting.
ua-cam.com/video/Uf5mC2nHZyU/v-deo.html
Thanks for watching, here's a little breakdown of the tune.
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Any tab
Can anyone suggest where I can find music for fingering for this please?
It's my own arrangement, but there's a lesson video for this tune on my channel. Link should be in the description
Impressive playing Sir. Long time guitarist, how easy is the transition to this? And are you mostly playing standard chord shapes?
Well I'd say it's easier if you know a bit of mandolin, especially for instrumentals like this one, but the top two strings are the same as guitar intervals, just tuned to D. The bottom two strings are where mandolin comes in handy, as it's like playing the middle strings just an octave down. But I'm more of a guitarist than mandolinist, and I'd say the transition wasn't hard. I'd say fairly easy to get something good happening. The only thing is you can't really do blues/rock in the open position because of the diatonic fretboard, but if you start on the first fret, you can do a bit.
@@TomMilleyMusic that's great, thanks for taking the time to reply!
Is this dulcimer tuned to D-A-DD?
Yes it is
Is this a G tuned merlin? Sounds like it.
It's the D tuned actually, but you can tune it to other keys too within reason. I've gone down to B, and up to E. Lower starts getting too floppy and poor intonation, and higher than E just scares me lol It can probably go higher but I just don't wanna risk it.
Can you please play the resident evil soundtrack composed by Marilyn Manson?
are there any tabs for this, specifically for the Merlin?
I don't think so, I just learned it by ear and slightly changed it a bit from a version that my friend plays on fiddle.
Would you mind sharing a tablature?
Very cool! Been trying to tab this out by ear as well, but I picked my Merlin up a few weeks ago and am still a noob. Tabs would be awesome!
I have a newer version on my Cigar Box Guitar here :) ua-cam.com/video/yEwkXPXiD-s/v-deo.html
wish you'd have added the tabs
I don't read or write tab, I came up with this arrangement myself. I have a tutorial though
Killer
Way easier to play up to tempo than any of those so called mountain dulcimers. I always thought that using open tunings on guitar would cover just about anything that you could play on one of those zither type instruments.The noting stick is so much slower than fingers and you can even fret two different strings or even three different strings that it is impossible to do with the stick.
what tuning is this in?
Dadd tuning
Tom Milley Music you sound amazing!! Keep it up!
Thank you :)
Tom Milley Music :)
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