Wonderful! I hope you get a lot of enjoyment out of it! Plenty of videos here to learn with, and check the website for some helpful downloads (shameless plug, I know, but I had to, right?) ;-)
Yup, gotta give credit to the guy who spent over 3 years and 30 verses to work it out. Great Malcolm gladwell “revisionist history” podcast in season 1 about it
By “both” do you mean diff recordings or diff keys, or something else? I believe the download is just chord symbols in D… it’s been a while. If key is the question I have a free key change guide on the site to help (tho I have come to realize it may be more complicated than I thought 🫠🤔) Please lemme know!
Ahhh, yes, that’s an inadvertent mistake. If you follow the video instructions (and the download) you will be playing in D. I was a dum dum and didn’t check my tuning before I shot the video, so it’s recorded in D# (strings: D#A#D#)… the same shapes are true, but if you follow my instructions AND try to hear what you’re doing in what I’m playing, there’s a mismatch. 🤦🏽 If you’re on a Merlin D, I might also recommend tuning up the half step to D# to see if you like it, and so you can play along easier. But if not, all the fingering and chord shapes will work in whatever tuning. Does that help? 🫠
I appreciate that! I really do. If you haven't checked out the free resources on the site, please do so. I'm sure some will help! (and the email list will alert you too ;)
I think that the very best version of the song is by Leonard Cohen but most Canadians recognize the quintessential version as the one done by K. D. Lang.
Really? Where does Buckley stack up on the Canadian list then? Without Buckley the song would probably be unknown. If you like podcasts I recommend Malcolm Gladwl’s revisionist history, season 1 “hallelujah”… it’s fascinating (and Malcolm is Canadian 😉)
@@HeyInglewood in Canada, the most well known versions of those songs would be Lang, John Cale (Shrek), Rufus Wainwright, then Buckley. Or Buckley then Wainwright, depending on geography. I love that you do the song for the Merlin. You make it accessible for the beginner ((which I am) And thanks for the podcast recommendation!!
@@torontocitizen6802 wow. I don't know a single person who'd order things that way. Most wouldn't be able to name John Cale either. Just the difference of a country, I guess, but not what I'd have expected at all.
Oh.... no, i don't think you're nuts, I think you're the sane one. I can't believe it, but I recorded this in ~D#... LOL ON ME!! I don't know if I should remake it or not... eesh. LOTS of work in what looks like a simple video. Anyway, I was messing with string tension (see: video coming out in the next few weeks), and forgot to switch it back, and now I have a complete mess. Sigh... I'm about to put up a chord sheet for this one on the website... would that help, do you think? I also made a note on the video description. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS UP (and for the encouragement on the correctly tuned videos ;)
i first heard this from Cohen. I am waiting on my strumstick to get here and this is definitly one I want to learn
Hope you enjoy it! These are just such fun instruments to explore and noodle and lose yourself in
Thank you for everything! I just picked up a strumstick in D second hand.
Wonderful! I hope you get a lot of enjoyment out of it! Plenty of videos here to learn with, and check the website for some helpful downloads (shameless plug, I know, but I had to, right?) ;-)
I appreciate you giving a nod to Leonard in your intro. The song is so often attributed to Buckley. Understandably though.
Yup, gotta give credit to the guy who spent over 3 years and 30 verses to work it out. Great Malcolm gladwell “revisionist history” podcast in season 1 about it
I play it on a full-sized mountain dulcimer. Instead of the F# barr chord, I play an F#7 on 2 2 1. It sounds nice.
Oh that is a very very nice change!
I’m jealous that I didn’t think of it!! 😂
Well done!
Do you have both versions written out on your site?
By “both” do you mean diff recordings or diff keys, or something else?
I believe the download is just chord symbols in D… it’s been a while.
If key is the question I have a free key change guide on the site to help (tho I have come to realize it may be more complicated than I thought 🫠🤔)
Please lemme know!
@HeyInglewood was tryinh to figure the difference between D and D # sorry . really new to this
Ahhh, yes, that’s an inadvertent mistake.
If you follow the video instructions (and the download) you will be playing in D. I was a dum dum and didn’t check my tuning before I shot the video, so it’s recorded in D# (strings: D#A#D#)… the same shapes are true, but if you follow my instructions AND try to hear what you’re doing in what I’m playing, there’s a mismatch. 🤦🏽
If you’re on a Merlin D, I might also recommend tuning up the half step to D# to see if you like it, and so you can play along easier.
But if not, all the fingering and chord shapes will work in whatever tuning.
Does that help? 🫠
@@HeyInglewood thanks
Dude I appreciate you so much for this. Definitely subscribing.
I appreciate that! I really do. If you haven't checked out the free resources on the site, please do so. I'm sure some will help! (and the email list will alert you too ;)
I think that the very best version of the song is by Leonard Cohen but most Canadians recognize the quintessential version as the one done by K. D. Lang.
Really? Where does Buckley stack up on the Canadian list then?
Without Buckley the song would probably be unknown. If you like podcasts I recommend Malcolm Gladwl’s revisionist history, season 1 “hallelujah”… it’s fascinating (and Malcolm is Canadian 😉)
@@HeyInglewood in Canada, the most well known versions of those songs would be Lang, John Cale (Shrek), Rufus Wainwright, then Buckley. Or Buckley then Wainwright, depending on geography.
I love that you do the song for the Merlin. You make it accessible for the beginner ((which I am)
And thanks for the podcast recommendation!!
@@torontocitizen6802 wow. I don't know a single person who'd order things that way. Most wouldn't be able to name John Cale either. Just the difference of a country, I guess, but not what I'd have expected at all.
when your doing the one finger version do you strum all the strings or just one?
All of them!! Should sound great!
@@ryanpryor2058 thanks!
That's the way the larger dulcimer used to be played. One note melody and letting the two drones ring out.
So you're going think I'm nuts, but your other DAD posts sound right. This one sounds off-key. I enjoyed it. I just can't play along with you. Cheers.
Oh.... no, i don't think you're nuts, I think you're the sane one. I can't believe it, but I recorded this in ~D#... LOL ON ME!! I don't know if I should remake it or not... eesh. LOTS of work in what looks like a simple video. Anyway, I was messing with string tension (see: video coming out in the next few weeks), and forgot to switch it back, and now I have a complete mess. Sigh... I'm about to put up a chord sheet for this one on the website... would that help, do you think? I also made a note on the video description. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS UP (and for the encouragement on the correctly tuned videos ;)
So should we put our dulcimer in d# tuning? Can you remake it in regular tuning?
Ok and I thought 5 fret was C?
Skip to about 2:13 to skip all the talkig
But the talking is so warm and soothing, right? 😉
Talking* lol…