101 Lesson 2 – Building on the Box (Instructional Video)
Mar 10, 2009 Beginner - 911 for 101
In this lesson, we are going to build on the box that we created in the first lesson, and make a second box.
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NOTES
We ended the previous lesson playing a 1 octave scale in a box. This box is “copied” and continued on the treble bridge of the dulcimer. The illustration below explains this easier than I could using words.
However, there are two points that I should communicate with language. First, you don’t play on the right side of the bass bridge, only the left. Second, you can play on both sides of the treble bridge. The bridge is placed at the fifth interval of it’s strings. This causes the strings on the treble bridge to produce two notes (depending on which side of the bridge they are struck) that are one fifth apart.
Now, watch the movie, review the illustration, and play that scale in the second box.
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