Course Instructor - Delaine Sapp

Participants will learn tuning, timing, understanding the fretboard, strumming, reading tablature,  and beginning chording. As these skills are built, the class will play easy tunes. 

Class Requirements: working mountain dulcimer, pick, music stand, 3 ring binder, pen or pencil, highlighter. These materials need to be brought to each class. 

A retired Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Delaine Sapp has been involved in instrumental music performance and instruction all her life. She has performed in international venues and received awards for her skill with several instruments and styles of music. Her earliest venture into the music arts was the clarinet which led her to bagpipe bands and ultimately to the piano, the ukulele, penny whistle and the mountain dulcimer. Her passion for music includes composing and arranging and helping others pursue their musical journeys.