Thought it would be nice to have this all in one place.
Most dulcimers include the following frets from the chromatic (all of 'em) fingerboard:
0 2 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 - octave 1
24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36 - octave 3
I also use a simplified one:
0 2 4 5 7 9 11 12, etc.
For both of those, you can capo up to the 2 fret and also play in minor.
And here is the blues-cimer. I just made two and the are lots of fun to play, you can easily use Shane's videos over in "how to play" to get lots of ideas for improvising.
0 3 5 7 10 12 (optional 6) (edited 1/26/10 to include 5!)
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(You can even play mixolidian if you capo further up the neck and if you do "standard" dulcimer tuning and include the 10th fret. I forget exactly where to capo, I'd have to noodle that out. So then you can play some of those Appalachian tunes like Kitchen Girl and Pretty Little Dog and I think even Red Haired Boy, and like that.)
Does this mean you simply use a standard scale calculator for whichever length you want and only put on those frets? What if your fretboard is 15" or 17"? I'm confused on what values to use in the fret calc. for bridge length, scale length, number of frets, etc.
I'm still not quite clear on dulci fretting, it should be simpler right!? So, in the 0 2 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 example, is "10" the 61/2 fret? Or am I totally off base?
Thanks in advance for the clarification!
Yes! the "optional 10" is the same as the "optional 6 1/2" in dulcimer-speak. They number the frets differently over there, as you'd see when you looked as musical notation for standard dulcimer.
If I were building for a new player, I'd leave it out. If I were building for me, I'd put it in.
Bluesheart said:I'm still not quite clear on dulci fretting, it should be simpler right!? So, in the 0 2 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 example, is "10" the 61/2 fret? Or am I totally off base?
Thanks in advance for the clarification!
And this is why the optional #10 comes in handy, when you are tuning ionian (DAC)
http://mountaindulcimer.ning.com/video/blue-hand-medieval-song
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