Hammer Dulcimer Time

I have been watching youtube and learning some new songs on my hammer dulcimer today. 

It was a great day and I got a lot accomplished!

I learned four new songs.

The Highland Boat Song

Bouree Caree (a French dance tune)

In the Garden (a gospel)

The Gift To Be Simple

I always tell my students that if you can read music and play by ear that you can play anything you have a desire to play. 

See ... the ones who play by ear don't want to invest the time to read music notes. 

Likewise ... the ones who read music notes don't want to invest the time to learn to play by ear. 

I can do both.

With the four songs I learned today two were by watching and listening to youtube videos. 

Play ... pause ... find the notes ... play ... pause ... find more notes ... until I had the whole song. 

The other two were songs that I'm already familiar with that the songs just popped into my head so I pecked them out on the dulcimer. 

If I hadn't invested the time to become good at playing by ear I wouldn't be playing any of those four songs today. 

I am very grateful.

Happy Tunes To You!