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Cindy Ribet

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January 31, 2007

Hammered Dulcimer

• Rentals available for students
• choose your topic for a lesson (look below at the workshop subjects to find something you would like to learn)

• John C Campbell Folk School ............Brasstown, NC
• Upper Potomac Dulcimer Festival ............Shepherdstown, W Va
• Jonesborough Dulcimer Festival .............. Jonesborough, TN
• Winston Salem Dulcimer Festival .............Winston Salem, NC
• Queen City Dulcimer Festival .................. Charlotte, NC
• County Cork Hammered Dulcimer Fest.....County Cork, Ireland

Workshop Subjects (can be geared to different levels)
Cindy uses a special "monster" chart and hammers to make learning easier and fun.

• Beginners
  • Special attention given to the way students hold hammers and approach the dulcimer/ learning notes and mapping out the dulcimer / easy, fun tunes.
• Repertoire
  • Old-Time/ Hymns/ Christmas/ Wedding/ Folk/ others.
• Chording
  • Focus on learning chord patterns and their placement on the dulcimer in order to utilize these chords on the entire dulcimer / understanding and using the number system/ styles and techniques for using chords for rhythm and backup.
• Chord Theory
  • Learn how a tune developes/ how to recognize keys and know what chords work within those keys.
• Transposing
  • Easy methods for transposing music and chords for those pieces that just dont fit on your dulcimer.
• Improvisation
  • Tips and tricks to learning how to improvise on your dulcimer in order to make your music fuller and give yourself freedom to express yourself.
• Playing Backup
  
  • This is a popular workshop that teaches how to use chording, rhythm and hammering techniques to backup other musicians or singers.
• Separate Hands
  • A technique that enlarges your playing and allows you to use both sides of your brain at once. One hand plays melody while the other playes the accompaniment.
• Musicality
  • Take your playing up a notch by learning how to make what you do now sound even better. Tips on phrasing, accenting, dynamics, arranging, memorizing and more.
• Dealing with Performance Anxiety
  • "Joy is not fulfilled until it is shared". Playing music can be a joy that is shared. Tips, exercises and "group therapy" for dealing with the things that contribute to performance anxiety.
• Arranging
  • Ideas for arranging, special attention given to hymns and songs. Group input and sharing of ideas and techniques to come up with individual and/or group arrangements.
    
    
• Playing for Weddings
  
  • Learn the protocol for weddings, how to make up a contract, what is expected from you as a musician as well as what you can expect from the contractees. Playing for weddings can be as easy as knowing three tunes.
  
  
• ABC Notation
  • Learn about the notation and software that allows sending and recieving music over the internet in small text files. Thousands of tunes at a click! Software, shareware and freeware allows turning the text notation into standard notation and tablature.
    
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