I'd like to know WHY someone would ask a beginner HD player if she can play the blues. Is it an attempt at one-upmanship? Another example of the Great You-Shut-Up? Total ignorance?

It's like asking a flute player to do the Pizzicato Polka.

I now think that SharonA should just forget about it, master and enjoy her dulcimer, and maybe come back to the blues in a couple of years.