Episode 374 - "Let's Get Cross, Shall We?"

 

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Bing takes a look at cross-picking on the mountain dulcimer, which isn’t terribly hard with this instrument, and sets up an exercise for developing interesting new patterns with your rhythm hand. The tablature for this exercise can be downloaded from here: https://tinyurl.com/crosspicking

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Episode 373 - "Intro To DAA Tuning"

 

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Bing takes a look at the much-maligned tuning of DAA and includes tuning tips, scales, chord shapes and a little music theory background.

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Episode 372 - "Lucky In Kentucky"

 

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In the first road-trip of 2018, Bing travels to Louisville, Kentucky for Kentucky Music Winter Weekend. Along the way, he appears on WHAS-TV 11’s “Great Day Live!” and performs his new blues song, “Put You Down”, with Stephen Seifert. Gary Gallier and Mark Alan Wade also jam out.

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Episode 371 - "Making It Up"

 

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Bing kicks off 2018, and the 11th season of "Dulcimerica", with some tips on how to make it up as you go. This is for mountain dulcimer tuned DAD and it covers scales, chords and using the capo to switch keys.

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