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Elaine Conger - It's All About The Bass Dulcimer

Item Number 90526192

Regular price $25.00

Contains bass line patterns for 100 of the most played jam tunes. It is the perfect tool for jam sessions and/or adding a part to an existing arrangement.

The tabs are arranged in DAD tuning and closely follow what you would expect a bassist to play. These are not solo arrangements. Instead, they are single note, accompaniment style arrangements.

56 pages.

Songs included:

Amazing Grace - DAD Tuning
Angel Band - DAD Tuning
Angelina Baker - DAD Tuning
Arkansas Traveler - DAD Tuning
Avalon Quickstep - DAD Tuning
Barlow Knife - DAD Tuning
Benton's Dream - DAD Tuning
Big Scioty - DAD Tuning
Bill Cheatham I - DAD Tuning
Black Mountain Rag - DAD Tuning
Blackberry Blossom - DAD Tuning
Boatin' Up Sandy - DAD Tuning
Boatman - DAD Tuning
Boil Them Cabbage Down - DAD Tuning
Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine - DAD Tuning
Bonaparte's Retreat - DAD Tuning
Bull At The Wagon - DAD Tuning
Camp Meeting On The 4th Of July - DAD Tuning
Cherokee Shuffle - DAD Tuning
Chinese Breakdown - DAD Tuning
Cindy - DAD Tuning
Clinch Mountain Backstep - DAD Tuning
Cluck Old Hen - DAD Tuning
Cold Frosty Morning - DAD Tuning
Coleman's March - DAD Tuning
Columbus Stockade Blues - DAD Tuning
Cotton Eyed Joe - DAD Tuning
Cripple Creek - DAD Tuning
Did You Ever Go To Meetin', Uncle Joe? - DAD Tuning
Down In The River To Pray - DAD Tuning
Eighth Of January - DAD Tuning
Fisher's Hornpipe - DAD Tuning
Flop Eared Mule - DAD Tuning
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss - DAD Tuning
Forked Deer - DAD Tuning
Goin' To Boston - DAD Tuning
Golden Slippers - DAD Tuning
Gray Cat On A Tennessee Farm - DAD Tuning
Ground Hog - DAD Tuning
Hangman's Reel - DAD Tuning
Hard Times Come Again No More - DAD Tuning
I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground - DAD Tuning
I'll Fly Away - DAD Tuning
In The Garden - DAD Tuning
Jaybird - DAD Tuning
John Stenson's #2 (2 keys) - DAD Tuning
Julie Ann Johnson - DAD Tuning
June Apple - DAD Tuning
Keep On The Sunny Side - DAD Tuning
Kitchen Girl - DAD Tuning
Liberty - DAD Tuning
Little Liza Jane - DAD Tuning
Liza Jane - DAD Tuning
Magpie - DAD Tuning
Midnight On The Water - DAD Tuning
Mississippi Sawyer - DAD Tuning
Oh, Susanna - DAD Tuning
Old Joe Clark - DAD Tuning
Old Rosin The Beau - DAD Tuning
Over The Waterfall - DAD Tuning
Ragtime Annie - DAD Tuning
Red Haired Boy - DAD Tuning
Red Wing - DAD Tuning
Reuben's Train - DAD Tuning
Rock The Cradle, Joe - DAD Tuning
Sadie At The Back Door - DAD Tuning
Sail Away, Ladies - DAD Tuning
Saint Anne's Reel - DAD Tuning
Sally Ann - DAD Tuning
Sally Johnson - DAD Tuning
Sandy Boys - DAD Tuning
Sandy River Belle - DAD Tuning
Seneca Square Dance - DAD Tuning
Shady Grove - DAD Tuning
Shenandoah - DAD Tuning
Shortnin' Bread - DAD Tuning
Shove That Pig's Foot A Little Closer To The Fire - DAD Tuning
Silly Bill - DAD Tuning
Soldier's Joy - DAD Tuning
Southwind - DAD Tuning
Spotted Pony - DAD Tuning
Squirrel Heads And Gravy - DAD Tuning
Star Of The County Down - DAD Tuning
Sugar Hill - DAD Tuning
Sugar In The Gourd - DAD Tuning
Tater Patch - DAD Tuning
Texas - DAD Tuning
The Fiddler Has Played His Last Tune For The Night - DAD Tuning
The Girl I Left Behind Me (2 keys) - DAD Tuning
Turkey In The Straw - DAD Tuning
Unclouded Day - DAD Tuning
Waiting For Nancy - DAD Tuning
Waterbound - DAD Tuning
Westfalia Waltz - DAD Tuning
Westfork Gals - DAD Tuning
Whiskey Before Breakfast - DAD Tuning
Wildwood Flower - DAD Tuning
Will The Circle Be Unbroken - DAD Tuning
Year Of Jubilo - DAD Tuning
Yellow Rose Of Texas (2 versions) - DAD Tuning 

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E
E Posey
All about the Bass Elaine Conger

Easy to follow with great tunes!

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Alan Richter
Bass Dulcimer Book

"It's All About the Bass Dulcimer!" by Elaine Conger provides tab for 100 popular folk tunes. The book proves valuable for practicing the bass dulcimer, which would be more fulfilling to do in a jam setting because the arrangements are such that it's difficult if not impossible to tell what song you're playing when only playing the bass part. However, the only time I play with other mountain dulcimer players is during classes at the Old Town School of Folk Music and, although I've played bass dulcimer on occasion there, I must play arrangements from the instructor. Nonetheless, the bass dulcimer songs are worth playing to improve my rhythm, especially when "accompanied" by a metronome.

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Marion Lange
Bass Dulcimer

This book is really helpful. Easy to follow well worth the time and practice for great sound from the bass dulcimer. Just what I needed to accompany other dulcimer players.

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Linda Fisher

Perfect. Just what I needed

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Coffee Bug
Doesn't stand alone

Please note there is no melody included, and it's only in tablature, no staff notation. You need to know how everyone plays these tunes.