Dan and Steve take on any subject that interests them as dulcimer players.
Stephen Seifert goes solo for episode 93. Find out what's up.
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.
Russell Cook Joins Dan and Steve to talk about hammered dulcimer innovation.
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.
Vrooom, vrooooom. The Dulcimer Geeks have restarted their engines.
Ashley Ernst is taking the reins at Dulcimer Players News Magazines. She joins Aaron, Dan, and Angie for a get-to-know-you session.
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, Stephen, and Aaron talk about getting caught up while the radar is turned off.
Join us for the drive back home from Florida as Dan and Aaron deconstruct their show at Sarasota's Fogertyville.
Aaron and Steve blab without Dan. When the cats away...
How do you respond when a student says, "I don't want to play like you?" And, where does activism fit into the dulcimer community?
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.
Dan and Aaron live create an ethereal composition for an upcoming performance with dancers.
Aaron O'Rourke, Dan Landrum, Stephen Seifert, Erin Mae-Lewis, Amber Rogers-Clark, Sarah Morgan, and Silent Shad Clark all sit down to talk about teaching and learning at the Black Mountain Dulcimer Festival.
Steve and Aaron get emotional and skinny.
Seifert, Landrum, and O'Rourke, keep it weird, have to use the bleep button for the first time, and still love dulcimers.
Dan, Steve, and Aaron show up with instruments and share their current projects.
David Beede joins Aaron and Dan to talk about similarities and differences in learning hammered vs mountain dulcimer.
Stephen Seifert and Erin Mae host a chromatic dulcimer workshop.
Dan and Aaron in the dog days of summer cleaning roofs and playing festivals.
Did the mountain dulcimer just get associated with neo-nazis on a nationally syndicated radio program. Why yes, it did. (This is an updated version. The first upload had a glitch in the last 8 minutes.)
Steve and Dan get serious about marketing and the fish are back, but now with plants.
Dan and Aaron invite you to a real practice session.
My grandson, Barrett, joins me and Aaron to talk about the art of making things up.
We are proud to introduce the most important people in our lives.
Steve moves on and returns his fish, Dan flies back from Glen Rose and Aaron puts a nickel under the 14th fret.
We go from productivity habits to celebrating the m7b5.
Aaron gets his repaired dulcimer back and it takes him a few days to get back on the horse.
Aaron and Dan talk with Butch Ross about his latest recording project?
Aaron and Steve ramble for just under two hours about almost everything.
Dan and Aaron talk about shaping your fingernails for fingerpicking good tone. Yes, they actually do their nails in this podcast.
Dan and Aaron explore timbre, texture, and general thwackiness in hammering methodology.
Recorded on St. Patrick's Day, 2017. We focus on playing Irish music and other obsessions.
Steve is pumped to learn some new songs, and probably manic.
Aaron and Steve get geeky about chromatics, before a "which was first" discussion derails into a giant social construct.
Dan Landrum and Aaron O'Rourke on the road and learning how struggle can be turned into strength.
As it turns out, none of the Geeks like resolutions, but Stephen Seifert, Aaron O'Rourke, and Dan Landrum all for aspirations as musicians for the coming year.
Deep geekery about the 1.5 fret and speculation about Aaron's new babies.
Let's see who did their homework, taking Steve's tune idea from last week and creating a song.
Let's write a song together and name it after a mineral and some form of water, something catchy like Dolomite Droplets or Fulgarite Flow.
Dan and Aaron discuss a music business consultant's advice about pushing dulcimers into new markets.
Dan and Katie Moritz talk about designing dulcimer related swag, how it should, and shouldn't, look.
Steve does an interview on WPLN while Dan and Aaron prepare for a live show on the Chattanooga Times/FreePress Facebook feed.
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