Pete, I purchased a copy of Isles book as well a few months back. It definitely has some great insights, proper finger positioning, and I really like that it has the chord charts for the fretboard at the end of the book. Though that may be a bit advanced, I am glad it's spelled out somewhere. I’ll t...

Tom, It applies to the accompaniment too, take a look at your lesson #26 in Darr. Starting from measure one of the accompaniment, it is basically written G-Major chord, D-Major chord, C-Major chord, G-Major chord, except they’re broken up into repeating patterns of bass, accompaniment chord, accompa...

Hey Tom, Good progress! I know it feels like a struggle but don’t give up! It definitely seems like playing standing would be more difficult than playing sitting, but at the end of the day it comes down to being comfortable. There are a few videos of people playing standing, but it definitely doesn’...

Good morning! I think you may find that a lot of the Zither tables are a bit low. I’ll let one of the experts here speak more to it, but I’ve found when playing, it is beneficial to have the instrument lower, closer to your lap. You want gravity on your side, arms sloping slightly downwards towards ...

Welcome aboard!

To echo Toms sentiment, I look forward to hearing all about your learning adventures. It is a fun instrument and has been incredibly challenging. Also please share some pictures of your Zithers once you’ve received them and have started your restoration!

- Andy

Hey all, I was curious about how you would play some of these dyads I am seeing. For example, here in ‘Der treue Husar’, the very first dyad is E and G. These exist on the same string, I am confused about how you would form this. The next one, E and A seems to make sense, I assume E on the D string ...

I feel like I’ve spent the past three weeks playing this little tune, tripping over my fingers and cursing like a sailor, but it’s finally starting to sound like something. Take away from this lesson: Chords require confident fingers, and confident fingers require practice, practice, practice. Also,...

Think I may have stumbled on the answer to my own question, is the Octave clef only written at the beginning of the piece and is just assumed to be there for the rest, seems to be a theme in the book!

Afternoon everyone! I’ve been scratching my head a bit over the alternating use of Treble and Octave clef in this book and was wondering if any of you could shed some light. I had thought that the first measure in the first line would be played as: String 16 (C), String 5 (g), String 4 (c). But if t...

Hey Tom, Think your right about the forcefulness on both accounts. Just tried again and being a bit stronger with both hands producers a much nicer sound. I'll give the left hand angle an adjustment a try. I've been struggling a little bit with the height of the desk / stool I'm using, but I think i...