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Got a Strumstick in DAD tuning? Probably a Grand McNally D-33 Strumstick. Let's walk through how to approach some of the most used chords. This is...

Check out this cover of "Take It Easy" originally written and by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey, but made most popular by The Eagles' 1972 recording. Played on a Strumstick G model.

Let's walk through how to approach some of the most used chords on a dulcimer guitar or strumstick. This is by no means an exhaustive look at chords, but ample to get you through 80% of music and 100% FUN!

Who'll stop the rain. The song is recorded in the key of G and composed of 5 chords. If you play along with the recording on your dulcimer guitar, there are a few places where they drop or add a beat which is less regimented and more unconventional than your newly released songs that we see today.

Learn how to play the traditional Scottish song "The Parting Glass" on your Stick Dulcimer Guitar.

Cover of Jason Isbell's "Speed Trap Town" played on the Cello and Seagull Merlin M4 stick dulcimer (spruce top).

Learn how to play "Hark the Herald" on a Seagull Merlin dulcimer guitar in time for Christmas!

Learn how to play "Drive My Car" a song by the Beatles, on your Seagull Merlin Stick Dulcimer Guitar or Strumstick Today!

Learn another rock standard: "Creep" by Radiohead (1993)

See it on both Seagull Merlin and a pickin' stick / Strumstick.

"Highwayman" by the Highwaymen (1985), played by Jesse Isley.
Jesse had only been playing the Seagull Merlin dulcimer guitar for ~30minutes at the time of this recording

This is fingerpicking pattern is common enough, but the meter you might use it on (3/4,or just general triplet feel), is far less common than quarter time (4/4). 

Cello & Stick Dulcimer on "House of the Rising Sun."