Mel Bay Introduces First Jams: Dulcimer Book and CD

March 27, 2009

Mel Bay Publications presents First Jams: Dulcimer. The fifth of six in a unique series of books designed to teach standard bluegrass jam repertoire and get musicians to play together.

The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard Jam tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, dulcimer or Dobro?? together, grab these books and start jamming. First Jams: Dulcimer is written from traditional Mountain Dulcimer in DAD (Mixolydian) tuning.

Improvisation — another idea behind writing the First Jam series was to provide a number of tunes that were easy to learn, but that are also a great to begin working on improvising. Each book in the series offers the melody for that particular instrument as well as back-up chords for another instrument to accompany you. Each song is represented in Tab, notation and chord symbols. The accompanying CD has two tracks for each song. The first playing the song with the melody line, the second track offers just the backup so you can play the melody over it or even improvise.

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For more information, visit their web site at http://www.melbay.com/.

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