Dulcimer Songbook: 70 popular songs for dulcimer in D-A-D tuning

Exactly what I had hoped for.

I have been playing the dulcimer off and on for 40 years. I have always played DAA and strummed the two melody strings only. I learned from Jean Richie's book which is the standard of old time dulcimer technique. Over the years, DAD came along and became the new standard but I was resistant to it. "If you want to play chords, then buy a guitar" was my mantra. So I decided to join the dark side and learn some chords. This book is perfect. It shows you the melody string but also adds the chords if you want to play the tune in DAD with chords. 99% of the songs you probably know if you are interested in folk music. If you don't know these tunes, I suggest going to YT to find them if you have been living under a folk music rock. If these tunes are unfamiliar to you, perhaps you shouldn't even attempt folk music.Here are the 70 tunes in alphabetical order: Amazing Grace, America (my country. 'tis of the), America the Beautiful, Auld Lang, Aura Lee, Away in a Manger, Banks of Allen Water, Banks of Sacramento, Banks of the Ohio, Barbara Allen, Bound for the Rio Grande, Buffalo Gals, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie, Camp-town Races, Can the Circle be unbroken?, Careless Love, Cindy. Clementine, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Danny Boy, Deck the Halls, Down by the Riverside. Down in the Valley, Finnegan's Wake, Give me that Old Time Religion, Good Night, Ladies, Go tell it on the Mountain, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, Home on the Range, Home! Sweet Home!, House of the Rising Sun, I'm on My Way, I Once Loved a Lass, Jingle Bells, John Brown's Body (Glory Hallelujah) , Jolly Good Fellow, Kum ba Yah, Little Brown Jug, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Morning has Broken, My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean, Nobody Knows the Trouble, Oh! Susana, Old Folks at Home, Old McDonald Had a Farm, On Top of Old Smokey, Over the River and Through the Woods, Poor Paddy Works on the Railway, Scarborough Fair, She'll be Coming around the Mountain, Shenandoah, Shortnin' Bread, Skibbereen, Skip to my Lou, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, The John B. Sails ( Sloop John B.) The Minstrel Boy, The Wabash Cannonball, The Water is Wide, The Wild Rover, Yellow Rose of Texas, Tom Dooley, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, Up on the Housetop, Waltzing Matilda, Wayfaring Stranger, What Shall We do with the Drunken Sailor?, When the Saints Go Marching In, Whiskey in a Jar, Yankee Doodle.Hopefully, these are all probably songs that you sang as a kid, so If you know the tune, it will make learning so much easier if you already know it. I would say that if you can master all of these tunes with the DAD chords, You'll be well on your way to intermediate level.

Has some very easy songs to learn but could be confusing to some one that doesn’t know how to read tab! Needs to have more detail on how to read tab. That way it would be easier for someone brand new to learning to play dulcimer. Luckily I know how to read tab. Only reason why I gave it 3 stars instead of 5. And like most music books with it was spiral bond!

70 songs for DAD tuned dulcimers. Includes notes, tabs, lyrics. In the back there are common chords, strumming and picking patterns.

great collection of songs, from old classics to newer classics. All in DAD tuning, with simpler songs at the beginning. I don't understand why these types of books aren't spiral bound so that they can lay flat while playing...I end up pulling all the pages out so that they lay flat. Also - would be great for beginners if the author did a better job of explaining how all the chords he lists are used...but still a recommended purchase.

Small print on tablature.

Love this book. I have many dulcimer song books but this one was a great addition with many different tablatures.

I found the book to be informative and instructional for a beginner. Having some musical background with guitar, it is easy to understand. About 1/4 of the songs are contemporary enough to be enjoyable, about 1/4 are recognizable and about 1/4 are things your 1st grade music instructor would bore you to tears with. The rest are unrecognizable to me. Also there are some songs with incorrect lyrics. Too many of the songs are oversimplified by playing only the melody string, which is better done in DAA tuning for my money. Now the good part.... Get the book. It's a fun book and for the cheap price, it's well worth the money. Who knows, you may adore every song in the book.

Good selection of songs. Some well known so I’m not as well-known

Some of the tunes are not well known. Pity I could have done with seeing the list of songs that were covered.

My son loves it for his birthday

The content of this book is poorly presented and very basic. Give it a miss

Have yet to get a dulcimer.