Strumstick Traditional Song Medley BMX VIDEOS - BMX VIDEO CLIPS & MOVIES

Three songs played on a Strumstick: Oh Susannah, Where the Roses Never fade (which I learned mainly from from one of Tinyguitars excellent cigar box dulcitar videos) and I\'ll Fly Away (which some might remember from the soundtrack of the Cohen brothers film \"O Brother Where Art Thou?\").For people who haven\'t heard of a Strumstick (which includes most of my friends) it\'s a three string instrument tuned and fretted like a mountain dulcimer, but designed to be played like a guitar instead of in one\'s lap. It was designed by Bob McNally who created the \"Backpacker\" guitar for the Martin company. Strumsticks and similar instruments are often referred to as \"upright dulcimers\" or \"walk-around dulcimers\" by the dulcimer community. This one was purchased for use at the school were I work - it\'s very easy for people who never played an instrument before to make up pleasant soundingimprovisations by fretting the bottom string and letting the other two drone - since it\'s diatonically fretted you can\'t play a wrong (out of key) note that way. Learning some chords and a few techniques like slides and hammer-ons really fills out the melody though. This was recorded using a Lumixtz3 still camera (for all it\'s excellent features, sound quality probably isn\'t it\'s forte).

dulcimer, dulcitar, folk, hymns, I'll-fly-away, oh-susannah, stick, Strumstick