A few years ago when I used to mess about with dulcimers at home in the evenings I would get my percussion accompaniment from YouTube.
There are hundreds of tracks on YouTube. Just pick a rhythm and a bpm and see what comes up. In the example above I was trying a new tuning one night and thought the chords I was creating sounded quite Latin American. So I searched for a bossa nova drum track on YouTube and improvised over that. I thought it sounded quite cool so I made a little recording for a dulcimer forum. The whole project from first tuning the dulcimer to creating the track was done in an evening. I don't think that l ever tried that 1-3-5 tuning again after that - so I'm glad that I caught the moment!
I've found all sorts of rhythmic accompaniment tracks on YouTube to mess around with that use all sorts of percussion - from light to heavy.
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I'm learning to flatpick and fingerpick guitar to accompany songs.
I've played and studied traditional noter/drone mountain dulcimer for many years. And I used to play dobro in a bluegrass band.
Last edited by Robin, Wales; 03-06-2024 at 03:30 AM.
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