To everyone asking, I put up a lesson on this song here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Uf5mC2nHZyU.html Thanks everyone for watching :)
Omg! Been listening to this song for the longest time on a mountain dulcimer. The slower pace of your rythm is much more easy to appreciate and get the full sense of the melody. Great music and great video. Thank you.
Left a comment a good while back but, still loving this rendition of the song because of the slower pace. Once again, a great video and song. Gonna keep listening to it for some time to come. Thanks.
Wow. I love your playing of this song! and after watching your lesson and, hours of practice I still have to fight the urge to light my merlin on fire in disgrace every time I watch it!
Very inspiring. You get a wonderful ringing or rhyming sound (don't know the musical term) that no other merlin player I've found on you tube gets. Really superb. If I heard you playing this on a street corner I'd toss you a few bucks! (and stick around for the whole song)...
@@TomMilleyMusic you know you're good when an auditory cloud of music exudes from your instrument. You've managed to turn the many overtones of your instrument into a choir. Next step is slightly changing the fine tuning of your instrument so the clouds overall tone changes subtly. You're advanced FOR SURE. Thanks for the awesome composition
Thank you for this. I know it has been awhile since you posted this. But wanted to let you know how much I appreciate it. This has helped with my practice with all stringed instruments. Thank you.
Sounds great, but I have to say that picking a Merlin up in store and playing it was really what made me buy one recently. The resonance through the body is just amazing, in addition to the sound.
Glad to hear you picked one up, and yes I agree. For such a small and shallow body they sound quite nice, and when using a pick I was pretty surprised how loud they can be too.
@@TomMilleyMusic I picked it up and was instantly impressed with the sound, I was playing around with some of the other ukuleles while mine was repaired and it just had such a different vibe. I think it's a nice intro to a full dulcimer, which is way out of my price range, and so portable!
I just saw this fucking thing at Guitar Center and I'm literally gonna get one .....I went in for uke strings and I fell in love and played this thing for an hour
Wow! All that wonderful rich sound coming from that little instrument? Do you know how to play a mandolin by chance? I bought one but I uh...don't know what to do with it. Right now it is just hanging on my wall.
Yeah I do play a bit of mandolin, this instrument is played pretty similarly to the mandolin actually. But yeah I picked up this tune from my friend who plays fiddle, and then I learned it on mandolin, and then found it sounded good on this instrument.
@@TomMilleyMusic It's a 2 hour drive one-way to a town I never have reason to go to, but we'll see. Thanks for responding. I'm watching vids and it seems really nice. Much nicer sounding than a ukulele.
Well I'd say it's easier if you know a bit of mandolin, especially for instrumentals like this one, but the top two strings are the same as guitar intervals, just tuned to D. The bottom two strings are where mandolin comes in handy, as it's like playing the middle strings just an octave down. But I'm more of a guitarist than mandolinist, and I'd say the transition wasn't hard. I'd say fairly easy to get something good happening. The only thing is you can't really do blues/rock in the open position because of the diatonic fretboard, but if you start on the first fret, you can do a bit.
Way easier to play up to tempo than any of those so called mountain dulcimers. I always thought that using open tunings on guitar would cover just about anything that you could play on one of those zither type instruments.The noting stick is so much slower than fingers and you can even fret two different strings or even three different strings that it is impossible to do with the stick.
It's the D tuned actually, but you can tune it to other keys too within reason. I've gone down to B, and up to E. Lower starts getting too floppy and poor intonation, and higher than E just scares me lol It can probably go higher but I just don't wanna risk it.
