PDF Explore patterns that will help promote fluidity and ease as well as speed and accuracy throughout the whole range of the harp.
PDF Màiri will show you a variety of tools and exercises to help enhance your melody playing.
PDF In this video you'll learn what "keys" are and how to figure out how to put your harp in various keys. Do the levers go up or down? This is an intro into some basic music theory.
This will be a headlong dive into the wonderful world of early music, meaning European music from the span 1000-1750 AD.
Here you will learn some polskas, slängpolskas, waltzes and schottisches and how to make them really "swing" so people listening will want to get up from their seats and start moving to the music!
PDF This workshop will help you 'funk up' your accompaniment to dance tunes! There will be a focus on numbers & syncopated rhythms.
Video 1 of 6 Beginner Boost Series: Introduction
Beginner's Boost 1: Using a Tuner
Beginner Boost 1: Sitting at the harp
Exercises for beginners to the harp
Beginner's Boost 1: Exercises 2
Introduction to the Beginner Boost Series 2
Debbie runs through all the good stuff you should have learned in Beginner's Boost 1 like good hand position.
PDF: Shapes of chords Debbie calls them cookie cutters, become all-important and once you learn the shapes it will make your playing clean and beautiful. Consistency is key. Place, then play, is the harp mantra. Learn which finger to play for which intervals.
PDF In Part 4 of this series, Debbie gets to showing you 3-finger chords, starting with triads, and explains how these chord patterns easily translate to every key. Learn to place, then play. Placing is important.
Beginner's Boost II - 5 of 7 - Octave Patterns
In Part 5, you'll learning the most common "big" chord patterns or "cookie cutters" as Debbie calls them. Be sure to place, then play! Thumbs up!
