Shady Grove (re trad.) on dulcimer

I got a complaint on the last shady grove, saying that they liked it, but they wished it was more traditional. I promised the person I would make one more version of Shady Grove for them. It is D A D D tuning (individual 4 string tuning), capo one. I will not be taking the other version down because I found a lot of players enjoyed that version as well.

-Slán.

Wildwoodflower.

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[DoktorKrankheit]

Thanks so much for the wonderful lesson.

Peace,

Spang

[MDMstudio]

Thanks, glad that you enjoyed my video!

[UniversalHoldiay]

whoa this sounds just so...beautifully...something i would love to dance too if i could dance XD i wish i could play something like this on my violin!!! or guitar...lolz XD awesome job!!

[MDMstudio]

Thank you! Fun one to play as well : D. Get some tab and start learning for your violin, would love to hear what you come up with!

[dulcimerhawaii]

I'm impressed! You can play "Shady Grove" with out a capo, just use the C-A-D tuning. I been listeing to your videos...great playing and great sounding dulcimer!!

Aloha~Terry Duggins and the Zither Band

[MDMstudio]

Thanks for watching, glad you liked it! I found a weird way to play Shady Grove a while back that uses D-A-dd tuning, what I do is just play it starting at the 7 fret, and use the 6 1/2 for those extra notes you need for the song. Thanks once again for watching!

[josherz88]

good playing!!

[mushroomz88]

they're spaced unevenly so the instrument isnt chromatic, they play like the white keys on a piano i believe.

[dasilvaec]

what an interesting instrument, i never noticed before now that dulcimer frets aren't evenly spaced like on the guitar or banjo.

[gretchenman]

The way your are talking about is in Dm, you are basicly doing what dulcimerhawaii said without retuning. But, the C# on 6 1/2 is not used, but the natural C on 6 is used. It is an octave up from the DAC tuning, you also can do this with a 1 and 1/2 fret withou retuning, because the 1.5 on the middle string is a C that you need, same rule applies to the 8.5 fret. This can be played in Dm without retuning also.