Linda Collins - Beyond The Basics - An Intermediate Course For Mountain Dulcimer

This is a pretty good beginner dulcimer book, starting off super simple and progressing one step at a time. It has fewer kindergarten songs than most beginner books, so is probably more palatable to adults. It does come with a cd which records only the first four or five songs though, so only provides limited help for the self-learner.

All in all, a decent book for the beginner which would be more useful to some if the cd contained all the songs in the book.

lite intermediate it that

Just getting started but very happy so far. It is engaging and challenging but rewarding. Looking forward to the rest of it.

I like this book even though I am a beginner because it starts out at the beginning phase and works up. It moves up quite fast and into more complex material quickly but if you put the effort in to learn the material as you go along it will get you playing dulcimer at a level where you can join jams. Perhaps I am able to learn the material because I play other instruments and have a good grasp of music and just needed to apply it to the dulcimer.

I haven’t had time to start working with the book yet, but I have looked through it and look forward to start practicing with it next week.