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 April
30 - May 2, 2010: Weekend Beginning/Advanced Beginning Mountain Dulcimer
Workshop
Level: Beginning
Tuition: $120
Course Times: Friday 7 - 9 PM; Saturday 9:30 - 11:30 AM & 1:30 - 3:30 PM;
Sunday 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Course Description: Our
major concerns in this course for beginners will be melody playing along
with drones as well as playing chord backup and for advanced beginners will
be melody chord style playing and harmony playing techniques. Both groups
will use the same repertoire so that we can play individually and together
to ear the differences in the styles while realizing that they can work
together. We will work with both DAA and DAD tunings. We will also try DAC
tuning to find out about playing in minor modes. Tuning tips and helpful
hints will be covered. We will use tab and written music and play by ear.
Some loaner mountain dulcimers will be available.
May
14 - 16, 2010: Weekend Advanced Beginning Autoharp Melody Playing Workshop
Level: Beginning
Tuition: $120
Course Times: Friday 7 - 9 PM; Saturday 9:30 - 11:30 AM & 1:30 - 3:30 PM;
Sunday 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Course Description:
The purpose of this workshop is to help participants understand how to find
melodies for playing leads on the autoharp. Participants will be encouraged
and instructed on playing by ear and on playing by finding the notes from
written music and tablature as we understand how our chord bars are related
to the notes of the scale and how small movements of the right hand can
bring out the melody. We will try several styles of lead playing
including melody strum, thumb lead, pinch/pluck, and patting always working
from easy two chord or three chord tunes and songs (to simplify left hand
chord bar fingerings while concentrating on finding the melody notes with
the right hand) to tunes and songs with more chord bar changes. Bill will
try to hold back from singing the songs or the chord changes all of the time
so that we can concentrate on hearing the sounds from the autoharps.
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Bill Schilling has been singing and playing various folk instruments for
over 40 years. He has performed for audiences of all ages in many settings
from coast to coast; has led workshops around the northeast and has taught a
week-long beginning autoharp workshop at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown,
North Carolina. He is the founder of the Salem, Ohio Dulci-More Folk and
Traditional Musicians, and the Dulci-More Folk Festival. Bill is the music
director for Folk Music at Weatherbury
Farm and served as the music director for Sheepfest at Weatherbury Farm.
Bill plays 6 and 12 string guitars, autoharp, hammered and fretted
dulcimers, bowed psalteries, banjo guitar, National steel guitar, ukuleles,
recorders, digital horn, jug, and an assortment of inexpensive or homemade
instruments. His large repertoire of songs includes old favorites or more
recent ones by some of today's singer-songwriters; many to bring a laugh or
some to bring a tear to the listener; ones with special emphasis for
particular audiences; or the occasional original. |
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concerts become complete as he talks
about instruments, songwriters, locations, and other related information on
the songs; or tells stories about the songs, his personal experiences
and many other subjects. Most of Bill's engagements are for concerts, and he
has performed them in a wide variety of settings all across the country
Bill Schilling and Linda Sigismondi
have a CD, "Songs from Canal Days"; Bill also has six books
available presently.
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