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- Thu Feb 04, 2021 6:59 pm
- Forum: Learning
- Topic: Keyes and other methods for right hand
- Replies: 4
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Re: Keyes and other methods for right hand
Thanks Ken. I've just started looking at the Keyes Modern Zither Method and found that, coupled with your advice, it's just what I needed for bass and accompaniment string tuition. So for me, I'm finding that the first few pages of the Scales and Arpeggios book dealing with scales on the fretboard w...
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 7:03 pm
- Forum: Getting Started
- Topic: New to the Zither
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9582
Re: New to the Zither
Thanks Ken for sharing that technique. After your suggestion, I tried it and it works well. However, I didn't modify a metal ring. I already have a "ProPik" thumb pick as well as a Blue Chip thumb pick which are quite stiff picks and found that "alternate picking" with them on th...
- Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:28 am
- Forum: Learning
- Topic: Keyes and other methods for right hand
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9054
Keyes and other methods for right hand
I started going through the Keyes scales yesterday after seeing all of the recommendations here (and them being freely available!). His method for teaching the C scale (and further scales on the fretboard) is great. Coming from a lifetime of guitar-playing (and more recently mandolin/mandola), this ...
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:26 pm
- Forum: Getting Started
- Topic: New to the Zither
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9582
Re: New to the Zither
Hi Ken, That makes a lot of sense, as you would have to skip a string in the middle when playing melodies when going from the G string to the C or D. Thanks for the tip on the thumb ring. So, do you use proper "alternate picking" in this case (i.e. if you were playing 4 notes on a single s...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 6:48 pm
- Forum: Getting Started
- Topic: New to the Zither
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9582
Re: New to the Zither
Hi Ken, Thanks for the reply. I've seen your videos on the bowed dulcimer and I really enjoy them! That's an instrument I've been meaning to take up, but it's near impossible to find even a regular dulcimer here in NZ, let alone a bowed one! I most likely will not be playing much German folk music o...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 9:05 am
- Forum: Getting Started
- Topic: New to the Zither
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9582
New to the Zither
Hello everyone, Greetings from New Zealand. I've decided to take up the zither after a chance encounter... I found 2 zithers for sale on trademe (the NZ equivalent of ebay) while searching for guitar parts. The 2 zithers for sale both came with Schaller pickups. I'd never seen pickups like this befo...