Finger-Pick Style Playing

Finger-Pick Style Playing is a fingerpicking method for mountain dulcimer by Dana Gruber. Every piece is a complete song, but each one is chosen to teach a specific skill, so the book builds your technique step by step. All songs are in DAD tuning.

Songs and the skill each one introduces:

• Mary Had A Little Lamb (playing a melody)
• Mary Had A Little Lamb (adding chords)
• You Are My Sunshine, Jimmie Davis (more chords and picking individual notes)
• Brahms' Lullaby, Johannes Brahms (waltz in 3/4 time)
• All Through The Night, Welsh lullaby (more pattern variation)
• Believe Me, If All Of Those Endearing Charms, traditional Irish (strumming chords)
• Lavender Blue, traditional English (left-hand techniques: the slide)
• Plaisir D'Amour, Giovanni Martini (plucking chords)
• Slumber My Darling, Stephen Foster (more variation of patterns)
• Farewell, traditional English (more techniques and pattern variations)
• Wilson's Wilde – Variations On A Theme, traditional English (putting it all together)

27 pages.