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    Modes on the Dulcimer

    Common Modes.
    Major: Mixolydian Ionian

    So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi
    Minor:
    Aeolian Dorian

    General Approach to tuning the dulcimer


    1 Play tune on melody string. Find where it ends on the scale. This usually signals the mode.
    2 Tune one drone string (usually/preferably the bass string) an octave below this note
    3 Tune the second drone string (usually, preferably the middle string) to a note a fifth
    above (or a fourth below) the first drone tuned.
    Note: you may change the pitch of either or both strings to:
    a) have strings not too tight or too loose, and
    b) have the relationship you want between the strings.

    Conventional Tunings, desired relationships:


    Ionian melody string matches bass string played at fourth space
    scale starts open bass string is octave below note on melody string found on 3rd space
    at 3rd space middle string a fifth above the bass string
    Dorian melody string matches bass string played at third space
    scale starts bass string octave below note on melody string found on 4th space
    at 4th space middle
    iddl string
    t i a fifth above
    b the
    th bass
    b string
    ti
    Aeolian melody string matches bass string played at the 6th space
    scale starts bass string octave below note on melody string found on 1st space
    at 1st space middle string a fifth above the bass string
    Mixolydian melody string matches bass string played at the 7th space
    scale starts on bass string octave below open melody string
    open string middle string a fifth above the bass string

    Some D tunings G major

    Ionian Dorian Aeolian Mixolydian Reverse Ionian

    lower melody string raise melody string raise melogy string lower middle string
    one whole step a minor third to octave above bass one whole step
    D,E,F? D, E,F? C,D,E,F? C,D,E,F? G,A

    Dorian Aeolian Mixolydian


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    Prepared by David Cross © Backyard Music 2011 BackyardMusic.com


    Modes on the Dulcimer

    Some Useful Chord Patterns


    Mixolydian Mode (DAD tuning)
    I Chord=D

    IV Chord= G II Minor = E minor

    = alternative

    V Chord= A VI Minor = B minor

    Reverse Ionian Tuning (DGD) (accompany records played in G major)


    I Chord=G V= D IV= C

    Ionian Mode (DAA tuning)


    I Chord=D

    IV Chord= G II Minor = E minor IV Chord= G

    = alternative

    V Chord= A VI Minor = B minor

    Prepared by David Cross © Backyard Music 2011 BackyardMusic.com

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