The sun came out!!
I have not gotten back to the clean up project today – but tomorrow maybe I will.
Just goofing off and playing around.
In response to Webster’s comment I made a video response – after you watch it – oh yeah – giggling is mandatory when viewing it – don’t forget to stop by and leave webster a comment. And check out the sites on the blog roll here too.
I spent most of the day doing not much of anything – I am so lazy sometimes!
This afternoon KRP and I went to Davis and I picked up a book that covers the basics of modes and dulcimer tunings. I have not played my dulcimers in years. I did remember that tuning the bass string to the key that the song was in and then the middle and melody strings to the bass string pitch at the forth fret. I know, I know, simple simon.
Sometimes I would just tune the melody string to the bass string. But now I think I need to figure a bit more out about it mostly because I have the time and all the free tabs assume you know what D ionian or mixukonin men . …
Yes I know that modes and keys are not the same thing.
So today I decided to figure out Aunt Rhodie as I know how it is suppose to sound and I figured that using a noter ( a stick of cut off dowel) and my old guitar pick I could thrash it out.
And just because I like to torture my readers I hooked up a tiny night vision security camera and an old microphone to the xp machine and made a video. Now not just any ordinary video mind you but one that I am sure I will regret sharing someday as right now I pretty much really suck at playing the dulcimer.
So here you go: