Shady Grove/Scarborough Fair (strumstick porch music)

[@sharpcanines3347]

Shady Grove is a favourite of mine. Greg Brown has a beautiful version

[@HollyMae55]

This is the best sound I've heard from a strumstick! Nice song!

[@Hlessirah]

I just bought a strumstick and watching videos like yours is getting me excited to learn! Also... Truck. :)

[@moiusa]

I'm next! I will buy one too and do what you did.

[@hawthorneguy]

I love the primitive sound like a mountain dulcimer. Perhaps the first way I ever heard Shady Grove, and I still consider it a fundamental tune that does fine with no embellishment.

[@moiusa]

Sounds like the US civil war music era... I love it! Thanks for sharing. I love the simplicity and dashing sound of the instrument and it also looks modestly elegant..

[@fraynevliegenthart6112]

Best version of Shady Grove I’ve heard. Love how it’s a bit slower and stuff

[@ritastern1680]

Thank you, for sharing your time and talent.

[@NeutrinoTorch]

Such an atmospheric sound

[@MountainHomeJerrel]

Oh, how lovely.

[@existential_fred]

What a great song

[@OZKAT12345]

This is wonderful

[@chipperP]

The ‘truck’ bit was funny!

[@johnparson8250]

You pick real good there Lewdite. Believe I'll get my strumstick out and go entertain my dog and any of the goats the come up on the porch too.

[@phoebelong7513]

Hahaha! Truck. Great song. Great playing.

[@Tiawoodman2024]

Soul music.

[@MID128]

Nice playing and singing, nice feeling! I must get my self a Strumstick!

[@frilindsay]

Came for the strumstick, stayed for the truck.

[@davidduggan4095]

How ironic that the truck goes by at the end of Shady Grove. Perfection

[@alanfbrookes9771]

I really enjoyed your performance of Shady Grove.

[@StephenGrayce]

Great sound, great performance.

[@ericjam6346]

That really sounds Celtic.. Good job with your playing!

[@chancewatkins5071]

Love this. Thanks for sharing this with us; Jesus Christ Bless! :)

[@BAK87]

Well played

[@MrJoakimBergman]

Just love this! THANK YOU SIR!

[@timothyg5293]

You sound great!!

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

Someone give this thing to Tim Eriksen!

[@marvinpiper2570]

Good listening.

[@cynthiawigington5637]

I never tuned mine minor - good deal on that. This was really super, and you finally got the 3 stringer! Nice to see you looking to well.

[@alanfbrookes9771]

Put a capo on the first fret and the mode automatically changes to minor.

[@cynthiawigington5637]

Ya think? Shucks I knew that but forgot, so thank you for reminding me Alan.. Are you on FOTMD? I'm going to get mine out now and do it.

[@alanfbrookes9771]

FOTMD? I don't know what that stands for. You could send me a "friend" request on Facebook. I've been building board zithers of various types for over 50 years. On Facebook I run the Early Music and Ancient Instruments group. I've never been content with 3 or 4 string dulcimers. All mine have at least 6 strings in 3 courses, but most of them have 12 strings in 6 courses. Check out my KZbin posting about Hummels.

[@cynthiawigington5637]

Alan it's great to meet you. I used to play renaissance lute and the bowed thing I can't remember the name of at the moment tuned like a lute in a couple of renaissance groups. fotmd.com - friends of the mountain dulcimer - you'd love the community, especially a guy Ken one of our other greeters. He builds all sorts of instruments. The site is for instrument builders and mostly traditional dulcimer players but super nice people. It's easy to communicate there. I'm not on things like facebook, on the older side of things and fotmd is the only online thing I'm on. It would be great to have you there. Ken has built zithers too and you two would have fun I'm sure. Thanks for responding. You'll find me easily there and thanks again.

[@alanfbrookes9771]

Like you, I'm getting on in years. Coming up to 73 in November. Living away from home on the other side of the world to where I was brought up, I find Facebook a godsend, allowing me to communicate with friends back home and all over the world as though they were nextdoor. If you don't participate in Facebook you're missing out on a lot. I share photographs of the instruments that I build, and recordings of myself playing them. I record one instrument at a time on a multi-track recorder and then mix them down into stereo. I have some postings on KZbin, but not many,

[@jeremymoorer7033]

Very nice

[@RobertSlover]

beautiful.

[@MrHuey7777]

I love this so much I designed and built a teardrop shaped strumstick myself. It is tuned DAD. I practice daily. I was wondering how long it took you to be able to play this well. I am really amazed at your skill! Thank You!

[@lewdite]

To play Shady Grove tune your strumstick to DAC.

[@-jank-willson]

DAD is major. To play shady grove, it has to be in minor, such as DAC. Maybe DAA would work?

[@jonneet2126]

Nice!

[@veyselyazici]

it is a reinvention of Kopuz. played all over Turkic world, especially in Central Asia.

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

I thought it was a 3-string stick dulcimer.

[@trickyart]

I love this video

[@collectiveearthheart3308]

That is so beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing this music! May I ask you if you could write down the lyrics of the first song for me? I am not native English speaker so I find it hard to understand all the words. I want to learn to play this song.

[@lewdite]

send me an email lewdite at hotmail dot com and I will send you the words

[@WilliamCerf]

Lew, I have no idea how you find the time (tyme) to produce such beautiful videos. Keep up the wonderful work.

[@CreatePerform]

Lovely :)

[@weinerdogsunite]

that's awesome! could you ever write down some tablature for us?

[@lewdite]

You could buy my strumstick music book :o)

[@deathslice60]

wow very nice :)

[@willy71220]

Thanks Lew for the quick response.

[@docwilkey]

Enjoyed!

[@marvinpiper2570]

Soothing music

[@SuperTechnicalman]

that was great. it looked like you were only on 1 string. thanks

[@lewdite]

Yes… all played fretting the single melody string. The other two strings are strummed unfitted and they act as drones.

[@-jank-willson]

@@lewdite I thought with strumsticks, you fret all 3 strings together with one finger, since the strings are so close together? Because they are so close together, if you only fret one, your finger will rub on the next string over? At least, that was the way I was taught with the 'one finger method'. Walking dulcimers on the other hand, like the seagull merlin, you play with just the 2 paired strings fretted and the other 2 open, since the neck is widr, and there is more space in between the courses...

[@olivia2008able]

where can i buy a copy of your strumstick book? thanks. Kim i just ordered a wandering minstrel pickin stick

[@lewdite]

olivia2008able Send me an email [e-mail] and then I can give you the information by return email.

[@willy71220]

I love shady grove, great playing. I have just finished my mackymusic stick, I am wondering what the pattern is for your strumming. Are you using a thumb pick? Great music.

[@lewdite]

I do not use a thumb pick, just my thumb. The pattern is unknown to me just my dancing thumb on the strings.

[@kenken8765]

Is it me or that shady grove sounds like "Prince Heathen" from the Child Ballads?

[@moiusa]

You don't mean a truck! You meant to say a Lorie... 😂😜

[@shmayahonickman]

Can you write the tabs down? And also did you change the tuning from the traditional D,A,D

[@lewdite]

I am playing a standard strumstick and I am tuned F C D#. If you want to play this on the grand strumstick you tune it D A C.

[@-jank-willson]

@@lewdite So F C D# and D A C are directly equivalent, just for the different keys that the standard and grand strumsticks are in, respectively?

[@TheNana74]

Truck!

[@randyjimmiejamesbowles]

Please tell me how you have it tuned? (Low to high?) I'd like to try your tuning. Thanks.

[@randyjimmiejamesbowles]

Nevermind, I found your comment: To play Shady Grove tune your strumstick to DAC.

[@lewdite]

It is tuned F C D#

[@randyjimmiejamesbowles]

@@lewdite Oh! thank you. I will try that. :)

[@lewdite]

@TenaciousFlea It is in a minor tuning F C D#

[@OZKAT12345]

Matty groves

[@snuffman5497]

whats the tuning

[@lewdite]

D A C

[@timw2407]

Is that a G or D NcNally

[@lewdite]

D McNally

[@epicmage82]

Lol...truck

[@coopedup2]

Truck

[@senichars777]

Балалайка для бедных

[@NekoYasha156]

what are the frets for shady grove?