Singing
and
Accompanying Children's Songs
in Developmental Order
Tuning the Dulcimer
How to Strum the "Bum Diddy"
Strum
How to Build a Dulcimer with a
Black Mountain Dulcimer Kit
How to String a Dulcimer
For Preschool level
2 Note Songs
3 Note Songs
4 Note Songs
5 Note Songs
Set 5 (Adding a half step)
Bile 'em Cabbage Down
There Were Three Fishermen
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
London Bridge
This Old Man
Oh Suzanna
Kumbaya
Michael row the Boat Ashore
Oh, When the Saints
Lemon Tree
Set 6 (Extending the lower range)
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Frere Jacques
Little Liza Jane
The Farmer in the Dell
Hush Little Baby
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
You are My Sunshine
Amazing Grace
Tom Dooley
Polly Wolly Doodle
Happy Birthday
Boa Constrictor
All Through the Night
500 Miles
Home On the Range
Today
Blowin' in the Wind
Skip to My Lou
Simple Gifts
This Land is Your Land
Set 7 (Extending the higher range)
Row, Row, Row, Your Boat
Three Blind Mice
Shorten' Bread
Sourwood Mountain
If I Had a Hammer
On Top of My Spaghetti (On Top of Old Smokey)
Wildwood Flower
Sweet Betsy From Pike
Puff the Magic Dragon
Where Have all the Flowers Gone.
Your second goal should be to practice chord progressions.
Listen to the 2 chord songs as they are performed on the web
and play along with them. Play along with all the 2 chord
songs.
2 Chord Songs
- He's Got the Whole World In His Hands
- Lemon Tree
- Yellow Submarine
- Polly Wolly Doodle
- Skip to My Lou
- London Bridges
- Ten Little Monkeys
- Clementine
- Aloutette
- Three Blind Mice
- Frere Jacque
- Eensy Weensy Spider
- Whenever Mary Has Her Blue Bow On
- Rock A My Soul
- This Old Man
- Here we Go Round the Mulberry Bush
- Hush Little Baby
- Water Come To Me Eye
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody
- Hush Little Baby
- Bye Bye Miss American Pie
- Down in the Valley
- Streets of Laredo
- Play a Simple Melody (How Much Is That Doggie, and other
tunes)
- Simple Gifts
- Shoo Fly Don't Bother Me
- Hey Betty Martin
- Tom Dooley
- Down By the Station
- Down in the Valley
- Hush Little Baby
- Little Liza Jane
- Looby Loo
- T'is a Gift to be Simple
- The Farmer in the Dell
- The More We Get Together
- Chislom Trail
3 Chord Songs
4 Chord Progression
- Today
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone
- 500 Miles
- Blowin' In the Wind
- Dream
- Octopus's Garden
- All Through the Night
- If I Had a Hammer
- Cruel War
- I Love the Mountains
- Lollipop
- Santa Catalina
- Young Love
Advanced
- Old Black Joe
- Old Joe Clark
- East Virginia
- Greensleeves
- Shady Grove
- Scarborough Fair
Other Great Songs
- My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
- Waltzing Matilda
- Cotton Fields
- Puff, The Magic Dragon
- Streets of Laredo
- Camptown Races
- Shenandoah
- RedRiver Valley
- Old Chisolm Trail
- Oh, How Lovely is the Evening
- SMILE
- A Frog Went a Courting
- A-Roving
- LandLord Fill the Flowing Bowl
- Aint Goina Rain No More
- Billy Boy For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
- Hey Betty Martin
- Hole in the Bucket
- Horse Named Bill
- Jimmie Crack Corn
- Oh Dem Golden Slippers
- Riddle Song
- Rock Island Line
- What'll We Do With the Drunken Sailor
- Get Along Little Doggies
- Down By the RiverSide
- Go Tell it On the Mountain
- Jacob's Ladder
- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
- Lonesome Valley
- Mary Had a Baby
- Knobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- Old Time Religion
- This Train
- Bicycle Built for Two
- Erie Canal
- Good Night Ladies
- Over the River and Through the Woods
- Tell Me Why
- Yankee Doodle
- Dona Nobis Pacem
- Blow the Man Down
- Auld Lang Syne
- Where has My Little Dog Gone
- Zum Gali Gali
- America the Beautiful
- Battle Hym of the Republic
- Do Lord, Do You Remember Me
- Little Boxes
- We Shall Overcome
- It Takes A Worried Man
- The Animal Fair
- Back in the Saddle Again
- The Happy Wanderer
- Hi Ho Nobody Home
- John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
- Buffalo Gals
- Wayfaring Stranger
- Hinky Dinky Parlee Vou
- Oh Them Golden Slippers
- Old Grey Mare Ain't What She Used to be
- Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay
- Noble Duke of York
- There was a Tree
- Country Roads
- Old Blue
- Freight Train
- I Gave My Love a Cherry
- Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
- John Henry
- Irish Washerwoman
- Casey
Jones
- Jack was Every Inch a Sailor
- Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Beautiful Brown Eyes
- Listen to the Mockingbird
- Amen
- In a Cottage in the Woods
- Six Little Ducks
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- Sugar in the Morning
- Alphabet Song