Finger Picking Basics

Finger Picking Basics for Mountain Dulcimer (advanced beginners-intermediate players)
No picks needed when you use your fingers to do the plucking! Exercises to gain facility with picking individual strings, a variety of picking patterns, and methods for streamlining the process are introduced. Techniques will be applied to beloved folk favorites such as Amazing Grace and Wayfaring Stranger. Different tunings and capo use will also be introduced.

DJ (Deborah) Hamouris is a composer, teacher, recording artist, and producer of online dulcimer festivals. She teaches mountain dulcimer at The Freight and Berkeley Adult School, both in Berkeley, CA, and in her east bay home. Events she produces include: Dulcimoon Virtual Dulcimer Festival – woman led all welcome; Baritone Dulcimer Day; and Dulcimoon Talks – twice-monthly, live-streamed conversations on YouTube, shining a light on women in the dulcimer community. Since March 2020 she has participated in many global virtual dulcimer festivals including Redwood Dulcimer Day, QuaranTUNE Virtual Dulcimer Festival, NGFDA Virtual Dulcimer Festival, Blues on Mountain Dulcimer Day, Baritone Dulcimer Day, and lessons on DulcimerCrossing.com. Musically versatile, she performs with her husband, Buffalo, as The DulciMates. DJ has produced 6 recordings and 2 books of mountain dulcimer arrangements, “Indian Summer” and “Baritone Folio”.
www.djhamouris.com & dulcimoon.com