This is original song by Steve is about our son when he was little. Includes lyrics, melody, chords, and hammered dulcimer back-up. The back-up is great for working your arpeggios.

Written to honor my father, Willis Coggins, who was a consummate professional musician and music educator. Most of all, he was an amazing husband and father, and he lived a good life.

This fun tune is great practice in playing chords in different inversions. There are 3 parts for different levels and all can be played together at the same time. This reminded Steve of the old one-room schoolhouses where all grades were in one room, thus the name.

4 Versions: Melody and chords Chord-based arrangement; Various arrangement ideas; Arpeggios and scale-based arrangement.

Melody and chords, simple arrangement; and a more complex arrangement. The complex arrangement has running notes so it's very important to emphasize the melody notes and make the running notes quiet.

A favorite in Hawaii, and one of ours. Lyrics included.

This light and lively tune is fun to play in a little bit of a tongue-in-cheek manner.

One of our favorites, too! Beautiful, Scottish melody.

This sweet melody is an enduring, popular song in Japan about warm memories of a loved one.

The arranged version of this has a great walking bass line that helps your hands learn to cooperate with each other and work independently, too.

This fun reel is played often in sessions. The arrangement on the bottom of the page is designed for learning droning techniques and also to help learn shapes and scales on the instrument.

Nice Celtic reel with simple version and ornamented version. Ornaments are explained.

This beautiful Scottish melody is simple and offers many opportunities to work on arranging ideas. Contains four different arrangements plus empty staves in which you can create your own arrangement.

Ruth's original to honor her Dad.

Lovely Carolan tune!

Straightforward, simple melody and bass line parts.

Fun traditional tune, often play in jams.