How to Hold & Strum a Stick Dulcimer Guitar in D (Seagull Merlin M4)
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
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The basics of holding the instrument and strumming chords (or single notes!). The knowledge here is for a Seagull Merlin, but can be easily applied to other instruments, like a pickin' stick.
The main thing is to take it slow and work your speed up over time. Get the downstrokes even, in time, and ringing through all the way before moving to down+up strokes. Then incrementally push your speed (tempo) up as you feel more comfortable.
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I have a tuning fork - no batteries! this was super helpful. thank you
AMEN!!! Back to the basics! I use my tuning fork regularly!
Yes! this is great mate, much love
Glad you found it helpful! Let me know if there's anything else that could assist!
Thank you for the tutorials. I just got myself a Merlin and I need practice exercices :)
Wonderful! Which type did you get, and what sort of exercises are you meaning? I'm always interested to know if there's something I can make that would be of help to the community!
@@HeyInglewood I got the mahogany one. I'm looking for arming up, strength and precision exercices. Also simple songs to play :)
Hopefully there are some simple songs on the channel for you. Let me know if they are / aren’t. I was considering making some “how to practice / pick / strum / fingerpick” etc... that the kind of thing you’re interested in?
@@HeyInglewood Yes! That is exactly what I'm looking for.
Good to know. I have one in the works for hammer-on and pull-off technique, as well as some practice tracks for playing along to as you learn (first one is "Free Fallin'"). Keep your eyes peeled (SUBSCRIBE if you haven't!)
would a canjo be a good practice tool for the one-finger method?
Most likely? But I actually haven’t used one of them before 😅 but if it’s diatonic fretted then you’ll get the hang of the notes and scales and such and be able to transfer 100% of the knowledge
@@HeyInglewood I am trying to do a rock project with mountain/cigar box instruments, so I was thinking my practicing with a canjo could translate to playing the one-string bass as well as a dulcitar played in this style. (I am thinking of getting a roosebeck wildwood since it has 2 octaves instead of the Merlin's 1 octave...)
interestingly there is another similar but albiet different class of instruments called a 'chordstick' (the mcnally strumstick is an example). They descended from a one-string fretless mountain instrument called the pickin' stick.
They are played (as the name implies) chorded, like a 3-string guitar if you will.
they are often confused for one another because they both have a diatonic fretboard, but are played completely differently, so are different instruments.