Skyrim: Ancient Stones - Hammered Dulcimer Cover 

Never to be repeated let’s move forward and not chase what we cannot repeat in our hearts

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@@KingPhilipsRideshare I remember the exact moment hanging around Whiterun around age 21, when Skyrim and all other games lost their magic and I couldn't lose myself into them like I could before. It was like the moment when you're 7-9 and the cool cars and dinosaurs and other toys just turn to pieces of plastic in your hand, never speaking to you again. I've been chasing that feeling I lost that day for 12 years, trying a lot of drugs to enhance the immersion, but nothing. And now for the first time in my life this year, I haven't gamed much at all.

@@Josh_728 hey “this year” is like 10 days so far lmao! Nah I know what you mean. My mom always told me since I was young “life is mostly boring and the sooner you get used to that the easier it is” I didn’t play anything but Smash rarely until my oldest child started to game. Now the magic is back. It’s not a magic that left us. It can’t come with us! It belongs to children. We should be able to grow up and enjoy what we had but this world has us trained to desire desire. I’ve learn that we will never be fulfilled by chasing those memories. You have to make new ones, sharing your time with others. There is no going back

@@KingPhilipsRideshare Man, I'm so old I don't even register anymore when the year changes in the calendar :D Can't wait for my kids to be old enough to play with them and see how it feels. There really is no going back, only forward.

I just started a new game a week ago 😅 has to be my 30 or 40th time over 3 different versions of the game.

cant relate. terrible game in every aspect but aesthetics

@@yinnyonline your tripping, games amazing and fun.

and thats not even a problem at all

@@jermaineturner458 yeah, terrible game *proceeds to watch videos about said game*

Agreed, it is one of my favorite fantasy music pieces ever! Especially the original track from the game 😍

That would make such a beautiful music box piece.

@@wisewoman7906 Oh you're right! That would be amazing 🙂

My favorite Skyrim song is Far Horizons because it always plays whenever I come back to Dragonsreach and see all the orphans I adopted as they call out “Papa!” to me. (I have a mod that allows me to adopt multiple orphans.) That’s why Far Horizons always melts my heart because it is a song that evokes nostalgic feelings of returning home and being welcomed as a father by your children.

i just picked up a 70s model, 24 string, im brand new and would like to learn this in the new few years, as it looks pretty advanced to me, question is, can i play this tune with a 24 string, and do different strings produce different sounds?, regards@@EvanPlaysDulcimer

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Honestly the sky sold me my first playthrough

Literally.

I just saw Zhongli from Genshin Impact say this, and now I know the context thanks to this random comment. Thank you stranger.

"I'll have you know there's no PUSSIIIEEEE!"

*Gets sent to the Cloud district* "Oooh, that brothers, Hanging In the air."

“Let me guess, someone stole your sveet roll.”😂

hahahaha

So this dulcimer was hammered? Sheesh

I heard that they've been on the rise as of late. Much like the Falmer, in a sense. They disappeared, but were never truly gone. Unlike their icy brothers, however, the Dulcimer are supposedly still, without a doubt, Mer.

When I played Skyrim VR, it was like playing it for the first time, but instead of looking at the world I was in it.

I’ve never played Skyrim. Prolly gonna play it after I finish baldurs gate 3

Yep, agreed. And ESVI wont be the same either because Jeremy Soule isn’t doing the music as far as I am aware.. quite disappointing..

Skyrim, like ffvii, owes so much to it's soundtrack. Secret of mana as well. Need for speed carbon is another game the music raises above it's station.

I didn't like Skyrim, but I'll admit the music was *chefs kiss* (I like more structure plus I hit a main quest bug part way thorugh)

And occasionally, mammoths hovering

Did you ever try it in VR? When I did, it felt like I was playing it again for the first time. Standing on the edge of the Rift staring down at Eastmarch with my own eyes was magical.

never heard it called a spoon lute, always just a hammered dulcimer

@@baconblitz772r/whoosh

This will now and ever be a spoon lute.

lol... you a funny, funny human. :)

What kind of elf is a Dulci-mer?

200 years from now Jeremy Soule WILL be accounted one of the greatest composers with Hans Zimmer, Nobuo Uematsu and others.

He's using themes and concepts from all those who came before him. Like they did in a fashion. Not to take away from him.

​@@MasonBryantGood artists copy, great artists steal. If I am tall, it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants.

It’s a shame he basically pulled an exit scam by taking advantage of his popularity from writing this soundtrack.

Imagine him performing The Dragonborn in a full concert for Baroch era listeners

Well said.

So it wasn't really a hammered dulcimer...it was a piano used like one. A piano tapped w/ pencils. That doesnt make it a real dulcimer. Thats like saying bc a player used a bow on a guitar, the guitar suddenly turned into a violin. You *DO* know the difference between a dulcimer & a piano...don't you??

@@cindyrissal3628 I've seen inside both of these so yes. The difference is that a piano has the option to use keys. It's still a box with stretched strings across. If you made a giant dulcimer and added keys it would be a piano

@@gormauslander the layout and arrangement of the notes on a dulcimer is very different though, so a dulcimer with keys wouldn’t make a piano. However, the concept is similar, and the dulcimer is an early ancestor to the piano after all.

​@@EvanPlaysDulcimerwhat?

It's not a hammered dulcimer, the technique the composer used is called prepared piano

Old gamers???

Uhh this game came out in 2011

13 years is a long time guys. Especially in video game years.

@@diehard096 fuck, there are teenagers that were born after Skyrim was released

​@erikpoephoofd yea I was already 22 when this came out, thst feels like another age.

Love this comment, thank you. I’d love to play in some Tamriel Taverns!

@@EvanPlaysDulcimerlove love love this music 🙌🏼👍👏

Whatever...Beautiful, thank you Evan! It was a most extraordinary mornin due to our Creator God and the gift he blessed you with. Use it wisely...it is most precious. THANK YOU FOR SHARIN,PLEASE CONTINUE,...NAN🎉

lol, passers by sees you both and says” you have a bard with you?! Fancy ! Good day.”

Perhaps a new mod is in order.

Agreed! Streets of Whiterun too!

I agree

Thanks so much! It actually wasn’t too bad bc the key I play it in is pretty standard and fits on the instrument very well, and I’ve been playing this tune for awhile so it’s in my muscle memory pretty well 😌. And thank you, me and a friend of mine built it and I’m happy with how it turned out

​@@EvanPlaysDulcimerwait....you built your Dulcimer??🤯 Incredible....

fuck yeah, what a suprise ❤

Made my hair stand on end, pretty crazy

wife had to ask if I'm ok

Same, went looking for this comment

It was like : 😐......... 😲

It astounds me that people have the capacity to learn how to play instruments. It was a concept I never had the opportunity to learn as a kid and only had a shred of it shown to me in a high school class for…maybe a week? How do people see these instruments and the notes they want to play? I understand that repetition is a thing, but the pure essence of playing like this…I don’t think this person is seeing an instrument at all…I don’t think they are seeing strings and hammers the way I am. …I just see the physical objects. It’s like. . . Like they see the notes that are there instead. They seem to know, by instinct, not just repetition, what needs to be played next. Is all music like this to those that play?

Dulcimers are still used somewhat in contemporary music, although they are more often the variant found in the US, the so called Appalachian dulcimer The Rolling Stones used it wonderfully back in their day recommend listening to _I am waiting_ or _Lady Jane_ and you'll hear it nicely

@@rejvaik00 Thank you!