Sunita Staneslow
Celtic technique and improvisation
My hope is that you get inspired by Harp Column Academy to find your own voice. … The more you hear other people discuss music, ideas, approaches, the more the harp world gains.
My hope is that you get inspired by Harp Column Academy to find your own voice. … The more you hear other people discuss music, ideas, approaches, the more the harp world gains.
Sunita Staneslow is a native of Minnesota but has made Israel her home since the year 2000. She has become widely known for her accessible arrangements for the harp and has fifteen books published by Afghan Press, Mel Bay and Sylvia Woods. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Sunita is classically trained but has a passion for traditional music. Her career has spanned many genres and she has recorded CDs of Jewish, Celtic and classical music.
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Sunita Staneslow
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to sit at a lever harp.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to avoid tension and play relaxed.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to create a good tone on a lever harp.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how and why to place fingers onto a group of strings at the same time.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to quickly and easily move levers up and down on a lever harp.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play basic arpeggios.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to take your arpeggios to the next level by creating phrases.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to use a Sus4 pattern to create arpeggios for improvisation.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to embellish four-finger arpeggios by adding the 9th.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to go beyond the basics in the final installment of her arpeggio series.
"Tone and tempo are key to playing more therapeutically," says Sunita Staneslow in this lesson on how to play in a therapeutic style.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to improvise over a descending bass line for therapeutic playing, or beyond.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play "Angel's Hymn," by Rhett Barnwell.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play Rhett Barnwell's arrangement of "Arioso," by J. S. Bach.
Learn how to play "In the Bleak Midwinter," by Gustav Holst, arranged by Sunita Staneslow.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play her arrangement of the traditional Israeli folk melody "Mi Yitnani Of."
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play Laura Zaerr's original composition for lever harp "River Right Rhumba."
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play "Seagull," from "Soaring Strings," by Kathryn Cater.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play Kim Robertson's arrangement of the traditional Irish folk tune "She Moves Through the Fair."
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play "Soaring" by Louise Pratt.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play Sharon Thormahlen's arrangement of the traditional carol "Still, Still, Still."
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