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A former high school English teacher, Sue taught her first mountain dulcimer workshop in 1982 at the Cranberry Dulcimer Gathering in Binghamton, NY. Since then, Sue has been leading dulcimer classes at festivals, week-long music camps, and for dulcimer clubs, in addition to private instruction at her home. After Cranberry, Sue found herself traveling to teach at events that include: California Traditional Music Society Summer Solstice Festival, Dulcimer Playing Workshop (Boone, NC), Mountain Dulcimer Week (Cullowhee, NC), and the Swannanoa Gathering (Asheville, NC).
While fingerpicking is her forte, Sue individualizes her workshops for all playing levels and covers a variety of playing styles, techniques, and topics. She has taught classes in arranging, composing, music theory, skills, techniques, and 4-equidistant strings. Above all, Sue's enthusiasm for the dulcimer, her patience with students, and her highly organized teaching methods make her workshops fun, enlightening, and educational.
For more information about instruction and workshops, e-mail Sue.
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Following is a sample list of some of Sue's workshops.
Arranging Tunes for a Dulcimer Ensemble
Playing Melody Across the Strings.
Beginning to "D"-Compose
Arranging and Transposing Music
Adapting 3-String Tab for 4-Equidistant Strings
Beginning Dulcimer: Getting Started
Smoothing Out Your Strums
Beginning Flatpicking
Beginning Fingerpicking
Left Hand Fingerings
Hammer's, Pull's, Slide's, and other Fancy Stuff
Advanced Fingerpicking Techniques
Dynamics of Fingerpicking
Fingerpicking Styles
Fingerpicking Ragtime
Travis Style Picking
Playing Back-up Chords in a Jam
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Airs and Waltzes
Tunes in DAA, DAC, DGD, or DAD
Favorite American Melodies
O'Carolan Tunes
Tunes that Need a Capo
Understanding Rhythm and Counting Time
Chords in DAA and DAD
Finding & Identifying Chords
Understanding Harmonies and Countermelodies
Reading & Writing Music Notation and Tablature
Ionian & Mixolydian Modes and Modulations in DAD
Aeolian & Dorian Modes and Modulations in DAD
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