Dulcimer Geek Podcast - Dulcimer Players News: Recent Episodes
Dan Landrum & Stephen Seifert
Is Bb warmer than C, or do you just need counseling? Butch Ross joins Dan and Steve for a discussion about tuning down and an odd Hungarian scale. Here’s a link to the Bb tuned dulcimer: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10219135462201848&set=a.1577962213394&type=3&theater
Maybe you don't need a shorter instrument. Instead, try this technique for shortening long stretches like the 1-2-4. Also, Steve responds to Dan's test of the mid-side recording technique.
Dan and Steve talk about life a bit, missed opportunities and sleeping with podcasts before deep diving into the recording technique called mid-side. The podcast even includes an audio demonstration of how this technique creates a stereo field with no worries about phase cancellation. After exhausting that topic, Steve gets geeky about capos.
Dan and Aaron in England with special guest Amanda Boyd who joins us to talk about collaborating of songs from the Cecil Sharp collection.
In this episode we start out by talking about coaching versus teaching. Seifert shows up, we meander as usual, and then Aaron opens a bottle of scotch. Things pretty much go downhill from there. Welcome to our first two hour podcast. We hope you survive.
Alexa joins the Aaron, Stephen, and Dan as the geek on about dulcimer-tech and copyrights.
Dan Landrum and Aaron O'Rourke discuss their show at Sarasota, Fl in a venue called Fogertyville. Topics include treating each show as an experiment and audiences as focus groups.
This was recorded in a room full of people playing music, PLUS the main recording device failed. Still, the conversation with Bing Futch, Lorinda Jones, David Beede, Guy George, and Dan Landrum was fun, so we decided to go ahead and share it.
Seifert, Landrum, and O'Rourke, keep it weird, have to use the bleep button for the first time, and still love dulcimers.
Steve moves on and returns his fish, Dan flies back from Glen Rose and Aaron puts a nickel under the 14th fret.
Dan and Steve talk about productivity practices until they get distracted by the most versatile chord of them al, the m7b5.
Aaron teaches Dan how to do his nails, but only on the right hand. This is about getting great tone when fingerpicking your instrument.
Recorded on St. Patrick's Day, 2017. We focus on playing Irish music and other obsessions.
The podcast crew for number 42, left to right, Stephen Seifert, Erin Mae, Butch Ross, Amber Rogers, Sarah Morgan, Aaron O'Rourke, and Dan Landrum. We recorded this during dinner at the Black Mountain Dulcimer Festival. www.blackmountainmusicfest.com.
Steve, Aaron, and Dan take lightning round dulcimer questions and analyze Aaron's undulations.
Aaron O'Rourke and Dan Landrum talk about writing, collaborating, and awkward moments hugging conductors.
Aaron O'Rourke pinch hits for Stephen Seifert for our first show of 2016. We're all busy as one-armed hammered dulcimer players these days so we'll get the show back on its weekly track by varying the hosts in dulcimer geekery. There are plenty to chose from.
Stephen Seifert knocks one out solo. Lot's of talk about a better dulcimer life in 2016.
Butch Ross joins us to talk about effects pedal geekery. Here's a photo of his pedal board.
How to make yourself sound better by working the microphone and sound engineer, like a pro.
Capturing and recalling ideas. The incompatibility of background music followed by performance.
What to expect with a new student, taking lessons online, and what are we going to do with Dulcimer School.
Wikipedia describes a slow jam as an umbrella term for music with rhythm and blues and soul influences. Slow jams are commonly R&B ballads or downtempo songs. The term is most commonly reserved for soft-sounding songs with heavily emotional or romantic lyrical content. This definition has led to intense debate over whether particular songs should be classified as a "slow jam", e.g. Ginuwine's 1996 hit single "Pony". The common use and possible origin of this term traces back to 1983 when Solar Records group Midnight Star recorded the song "Slow Jam" on their album No Parking on the Dance Floor.
*Make no mistake, this podcast has nothing to do with any of this.*
Want to get a quality recording of your dulcimer? Know what you want, and how to ask for it.
Our first podcast. We talk about beginnings as they apply to the lives of working musicians.