• Get comfortable with the notes . practice arpeggios and Jewish modal scales up and down
  • Find your D and Dm chords in various positions . listen to patterns off the old records . learn to do simple, straight forward freylach, bulgar, and slow hora accompaniment with no fancy stuff
  • Try that with G and Gm, A and Am, C and Cm, and eventually all the chords major and minor. Keep doing arpeggios.
  • Try copying the accompaniment off the first track of Khevrisa
  • Pick a piece you know well to learn a melody of . just pick it out. Lead with the right, try different stickings . just get the melody
  • speaking of sticks http://www.netspeed.com.au/gillian.alcock/ - Gillian Alcock makes instruments, and she also makes good makes good cimbalom hammers for $70 plus postage from Australia.
  • Contact Kurt Bjorling . and get get these tapes

    http://www.muziker.org/resrec/index.html Kurt is at telephone: 847.475.3905

    . Jewish Violinists, vol. 1 - Edition 2, March 2003 60 minutes - $10

    . Jewish Violinists, vol. 2 - Edition 2, April 2003 60 minutes - $10

    . Max Yankowitz and Josef Moskowitz Max Yankowitz.s complete recordings: accordion solos with tsimbl or piano Josef Moskowitz -cymbalom solos with piano -90 minutes - $15

    These are good old style recordings

  • Get current recordings by Zev Feldman (Khevrise), Josh Horowitz (Budowitz), Pete Ruschevsky (Fydl und Tsmbl) . amazon has them or search the web
  • Go to Klez Kamp or Klez Kanada for tsimbl lessons and work with ensembles, especially once your know where you chords are.