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15 Minutes a Day!
(All Levels)

The purpose of this warm-up book is to provide time saving exercises to catapult your playing to the next level. Practicing to perfect the hammered dulcimer without direction is a lot like chopping down a tree with a sledge hammer. You can get the job done, but it will take a long time! The pages in this book offer much needed direction and serve as a tool shed of sharp practicing axes to cut the tree down faster.

The “15 Minutes a Day” concept is not a sales gimmick. By working through this book for 15 minutes every practice session, you will experience noticeable results in your playing, including:

  • Improved Dexterity
  • Better Consistency and Accuracy
  • Greater Hand Independence
  • A Musical Flow to Your Playing
  • Evenness of Tone between Right and Left Hands
  • Comfort with the Chromatic Scale
  • Quicker Recall of the Note Names and Locations
  • Increased Recognition of Enharmonic Spellings (e.g., A# = Bb)
Format Price Action
Book $15.00

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Major Scale Exercises
  • Dorian Mode Exercises
  • Major Scale Agility & Flow Studies
  • Noodles
  • Locomotion
  • Locomotion in Triplets
  • Two Octave Locomotion
  • Chromatic Play
    • Act I, “Row 1”
    • Act II, “Row 2”
    • Act III, “Row 3”
    • Act IV, “Row 4”
    • Act V, “Row 5”
  • Chromatic Scale- Putting It Together
  • Chromatic Ditties
  • Jacob’s Ladder
  • Declaration of Hand Independence
    • Unalienable Rights
    • The Pursuit of Happiness
    • The Rights of the People
    • Despotism
    • Animal Rights

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