There are other benefits of a 4-equidistant string arrangement, too. Playing barre chords or using a slide at each fret gives all the major chords. Raising the strings off the fretboard and playing the dulcimer with a slide allows you to play chords and notes between the frets for a blues scale. The advantage of this tuning is that it includes all the notes of a D Major chord when the open strings are strummed. Steve Eulberg tuned his dulci-bro to D-F#-A-D. For example, tuning to D-A-A#-D adds all the accidental notes used in Scott Joplin’s ragtime tunes and is used by California dulcimer player, Juanita Baker. This results in a totally different style of playing and opens up many new possibilities. One way to play the dulcimer is to arrange 4 strings by spacing them equidistantly across the fretboard. There are so many creative and innovative ways to play it. The dulcimer is an extremely flexible musical instrument. It is truly easy to see how Babcock remarked that “this is my father’s world.” The park is full of waterfalls and ravines as it cascades along.

We visited Niagara Falls several times and also walked along the “Niagara Escarpment” which goes through Letchworth State Park where these photos were taken. The hymn takes on more significance since my daughter attended college in upstate New York close to where Babcock lived. Huffman - with long white hair like Einstein belting out the song) and I could relate also to the words. I can vividly remember singing this hymn in church when was growing up (I can remember the choir conductor –Mr. The music used was an old English folk song melody entitled “TERRA BEATA ” which means “blessed earth” in Latin. He would often declare to his wife that he was “going out to see the Father’s world.” After his death at aged 42-years-old in 1901, his wife published his writings including the poem entitled, “My Father’s World.” The poem was set to music in 1915 by a close friend, Franklin L. He liked to take long walks along the steep cliffs (called the “Niagara Escarpment”) which run across upstate New York to enjoy the scenic vistas and views as well as walking along Lake Ontario. Maltbie Davenport Babcock was a Presbyterian minister who lived in Lockport, New York, which is close to Niagara Falls. I experimented with chords and fingerpicking in the D-F#-A-D tuning and decided that “This Is My Father’s World” is a fitting song for this tuning. The 4-equidistant strings and Steve’s tuning resulted in a beautiful, full and soothing tone to the dulcimer - almost like a harp. So I changed one of my dulcimers to this string tune configuration for a “resonator dulcimer.” But I never reached the part of raising the strings to make that “bluesy” sound. He tuned the dulcimer to D-F#-A-D and raised the strings at the nut. Steve Eulberg taught a workshop on the dulci-bro (a hybrid dulcimer and dobra) using a dulcimer with a resonator and slide and a 4-equidistant string configuration. All Rights Reserved.With our “stay at home directive” and extra time on my hands, I decided to pull out and explore a book which I purchased at our recent Lagniappe Dulcimer Fête. « Myriad Forum » Powered by YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.1 ! You can then edit the notation in the second staff to remove the accompanying strings and unclick the display standard staff in the tab display properties for the first staff. This copies the notes but as there's no tab staff the priority to tab restrictions do not apply. Select the whole first staff and copy it to the second staff. « Reply #2 on: Dec 31 st, 2002, 11:16pm »Īdd a second staff without an associated tab staff, Lutes, pre-Baroque secular, traditional music Linktree: VS languages, my scripts, my bands, my performances. HA+HQ+VS+PdfToM, Reaper+Audiveris+Transcribe, Win10+Focusrite Scarlet 4i4+Nord Electro 3 The solution : you edit the tablature, you can insert 'notes' with right click (I think) and you select the number. I suppose when you edit the staff, the tablature is recalculated automatically, and that annoy(?) you. Re: Editing melody when dAD dulcimer tabs are in p How can I edit the treble staff so as to leave only the melody line and still not change the dAD tabs I have in place I have some songs I have written in which I have notated them with priority to tablature activated and have put the chords and melody in the dulcimer tabs. Topic: Editing melody when dAD dulcimer tabs are in place (Read 607 times) Melody Assistant / Harmony Assistant (Moderator: Forum Administrator)Įditing melody when dAD dulcimer tabs are in place You can read all messages, but to be able to post,īoard Home | Help | Search | Polls | Members | Login | Register

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