Essential Techniques

Important Skills for Developing Musicians


Your Instructor


Stephen Seifert
Stephen Seifert

Stephen Seifert's teaching and playing has made him a favorite with dulcimer players all over the world since 1991. In that time, he's been a featured performer at over a thousand dulcimer festivals and other music events including. Stephen has also been a dulcimer soloist with orchestras around the U.S. He was Adjunct Instructor of Mountain Dulcimer with David Schnaufer at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music from 1997 to 2001. He also taught, performed, and recorded with Mr. Schnaufer as a duo throughout the country. Stephen has authored ten books, four CDs, and 16 instructional videos, Dulcimer School, and this site, Mountain Dulcimer A to Z. When it comes to dulcimer, he's eat up!


Course Curriculum


  Minimal Chord Melody - BEG | INT | ADV - A minimal way to play melody and chords at the same time. There's fancier ways to do this. This is the simplest and I use it a lot.
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  Your Riffs for Your Tunes - INT | ADV - This is one of my favorite ways to come up with riffs and melodic ideas to make a tune you already play more uniquely yours. *PREREQUISITE: Make sure you work with the series of videos entitled Minimal Chord Melody.
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