Dulcimerica with Bing Futch - Episode 518 - "Chord Building 1" - Mountain Dulcimer
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- čas přidán 12. 11. 2020
- Kicking off a six-week series on chord-building, Bing takes a look at major and minor chords, how to tell the difference and using them in chord progressions.
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What’s cool is that this level of music theory is really all you need to make great music. The pure fundamentals
Excellent!
Thanks, Anne!
Hoping to learn
You'll do great! Let me know if you have any questions.
You have a great voice, wonderful personality, and you're an excellent teacher and presenter.🙂
Thank you very much!
Probably the best instructional chord video ever made. Hope it goes viral!
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Wish I had this when I took theory in college. I like your stop light. It’s concrete.
Wow, thank you, Sarah!
As someone whose piano keys were self-evident, and strings a mystery, this is a great video! Although I've watched the video multiple times, I am currently working only on the first 20 minutes of Bing's video! Bing's video makes sense of chord building on a stringed instrument. Bing also introduces chord progression. These two things, combined, will give me lots to work on! I am looking forward to mastering this video and moving to the next five videos re: chords.
My dulcimer frets are not the same as yours. Sometimes I am matching chords, sometimes not. I don't seem to have an avenue for adding a photo of my dulcimer frets. Or a photo of the awesome stickers I received and I'm now proudly displaying! Regardless...I'm trying to process the difference of distance between your frets and mine.
Hi, Jodi! I have the 1+ fret, an extra half-step located between the first and second frets. This can sometimes be confusing for those that don't have one, or aren't used to working with it. The lengths of our dulcimers may be slightly different, but the spacing between frets is pretty standard. The only differences are extra frets on some instruments (some are fully chromatic like guitars.)
For anyone who never studied dulcimer but spent time learning music and theory, and had a gap (like me), this is an amazing refresher. My personal plan is to find these chords in their various different places on the dulcimer, major and minor, and write out tablature. I personally need the visual position on paper, along with my fingers on the strings. When I played piano, it all seemed so obvious because of the white/black keys. Strings are more of a mystery to me when finding, for example, a D major chord in various places. Bing: Question: When someone writes chord fingering (or tablature), does anyone use colors to identify the root? I feel that would be helpful. BTW...I subscribed to Patreon with you because, after watching lots of people's videos, you have the best instructional videos. I hope to see you live and in concert, one day.
Hi, Jodi - thanks for becoming a patron, I very much appreciate it and am glad you're getting lots of use out of the content! In many of my books and workshop handouts, I do color the root red as well as identify the 3rd and 5th. Also, I teach how to find the root for the three basic chord shapes (L-shape is bass, slant is middle and extended slant is melody.) I, too, came from piano, and had some difficulty with the parallel, rather than linear, configurations of notes. After a while, you will get used to the pattern and it will be smooth sailing!
I placed an order for a folkroot d series dulcimer with the recommended 4 extra frets and some other extras. This will be my first dulcimer and I never learned to read music. I goofed around on a rented cardboard dulcimer to learn a simple toddler tune- playing by numbers. I will be ordering some the books offered by folkcraft. Which do recommend?
Check out "Method For Beginning Mountain Dulcimer" - Richard Ash probably already suggested this one, but it's a comprehensive study of music theory for the mountain dulcimer that covers all the bases.
Thanks. I read the folkroot commentary and also went through the list. My second order at folkcraft will include 3 books- 2 by you , the one you suggested and the one on Native American flutes ( I bought a High Spirits flute several years ago). The other book is the one folkcraft suggested as first to buy. Thanks.
I had been more or less lost as to music theory but this video gave me a solid plan to begin to learning and practicing. Thank you! Already looking forward to the next video. :)
This makes me so happy! Glad to have helped. The next few episodes will revisit what's been covered so far, and then gently build upon that framework. Stick around for the remaining five videos and I believe you'll get a nice leg up on your studies. Thanks for watching!
First - thank you for all the wonderful teaching episodes! May I ask where you got the standup dulcimer stand you are using in this video? Thank you!
Hi, David - thank you! The stand is by Gary Sager at PrussiaValley.com - last I checked, he was still building them, but had a waiting list. Thanks for watching!