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Dave Haas - More Beautiful Melodies

Item Number 1310104

Regular price $30.00

This workbook/CD set was written for the intermediate-advanced player who aspires to create musical arrangements by playing melodies in different positions on the fingerboard and by creating song medleys.

This book is more than a collection of songs - it provides detailed written and audio instruction on how to play advanced arpeggios on the mountain dulcimer. The workbook/CD consists of 26 song arrangements, 8 arpeggio exercises, and 42 audio tracks which build the necessary skills to play beautiful, slow and melodic music on the dulcimer. All of the songs and exercises are referenced to the accompanying CD, which allows the listener to play along while learning to bring forth beautiful melodies from the mountain dulcimer.

"More Beautiful Melodies" expands on the work Dave Haas began in "Beautiful Melodies," and presents the dulcimer player with more challenging arpeggio exercises and song arrangements.

64 pages.

Songs included:

In The Bleak Midwinter - DAD Tuning
In The Bleak Midwinter (Backup Chords) - DAD Tuning
In The Bleak Midwinter (Octaves) - DAD Tuning
Red Is The Rose - DAD Tuning
The Winter Is Almost Past - DAD Tuning
Introduction / Interlude (Red Is The Rose / The Winters Is Almost Past) - DAD Tuning
Eleanor Plunkett - DAD Tuning
Si Beeg Si Mor - DAD Tuning
Just As I Am - DAD Tuning
Just As I Am (Melody On Bass) - DAD Tuning
Just As I Am (Octave) - DAD Tuning
Just As I Am (Tag Ending) - DAD Tuning
Shenandoah - DAD Tuning
Shenandoah (Melody On Bass Side) - DAD Tuning
Shenandoah (Octave) - DAD Tuning
How Great Thou Art - DAD Tuning
It Is Well With My Soul - DAD Tuning
All Through The Night - DAD Tuning
How Can I Keep From Singing? - DAD Tuning
How Can I Keep From Singing? (Backup Chords) - DAD Tuning
How Can I Keep From Singing? (Octave) - DAD Tuning
The Water Is Wide - DAD Tuning
The Water Is Wide (Octave) - DAD Tuning
America, The Beautiful - DAD Tuning
America, The Beautiful (Melody On Bass Side) - DAD Tuning

Other content:

About The Instructor
Right Hand Technique
Left Hand Technique
Filler Notes - DAD Tuning
Adding Variation / Sensitivity
Arpeggio Exercise 1 / Ode To Joy - DAD Tuning
Arpeggio Exercise 6 (Half-Slanted Chords - 4/4 Time) - DAD Tuning
Arpeggio Exercise 3 (Half-Slanted Chords - 3/4 Time) - DAD Tuning
Arpeggio Exercise 4 (L-Shaped Chords) - DAD Tuning
Arpeggio Exercise 5 (L-Shaped Chords, With Moving Thumb) - DAD Tuning
Arpeggio Exercise 6 (Fast Chords) - DAD Tuning
Beginnings And Endings
The Octave Region
Arpeggio Exercise 7 (L-Shaped And Slanted Chords) - DAD Tuning
Arpeggio Exercise 8 (First Position And Octave Chords) - DAD Tuning
Backup Chords - DAD Tuning

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Heather Minion
Wonderful Learning Resource!

I am enjoying working my way through “More Beautiful Melodies”. The instructional material on right- and left-hand technique is helpful and clearly presented. The arpeggio exercises are excellent, and I have been pleased to see how my muscle memory has improved by practicing them. The exercises and song arrangements correlate well with each other and serve as examples of how the arpeggios can be used to embellish other songs. I also like the ideas for introductions and interludes and playing in different positions of the instrument. Love the book!

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David Opp
Tab error ?

I am not a tab user generally, tend to read the music. However as I started to work through the exercises in Dave’s Beautiful Melodies arpeggio booklet I found the tab to be out of sync with the written music ..not in all cases but enough that I found it disturbing that these errors passed into publication. I’d include an example here see one example ..Arpeggio Exercise 1 ..

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Jay Pittman

Quick and easy

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Bill Lloyd
The Magic if Dave Haas!

Great Book by Dave Haas! A master of smooth playing melodies and this book teaches you all the techniques to make joyful and beautiful music on the Mountain Dulcimer.

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Nettie Perez
Very helpful

Really enjoy learning from Mr Dave Haas !