Featured lessons for September 2024

Level up your back-to-school prep with these foundational lessons!

Brain Game #1—Plan It Out

Taught by Jaymee Haefner

In this lesson Jaymee discusses how to make a plan to focus on what you want to work on. “Every day, you have to be laser focused on what you’re going to be working on.”

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Waltz of the Flowers—Lesson 1A

Taught by Sarah Bullen

Sarah Bullen teaches the cadenza from “Waltz of the Flowers,” from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky, to harpist Catherine Litaker. “I like to talk about the skeleton…distilling the cadenza down to the essence of the melody.”

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Inversions

Taught by Angelica Hairston

In this lesson, Angelica Hairston teaches how to build inversions from a root position chord.

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Moving Levers

Taught by Sunita Staneslow

In this lesson, Sunita Staneslow teaches how to quickly and easily move levers up and down on a lever harp.

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Petite Berceuse

Taught by Isabelle Perrin

In this lesson, Isabelle Perrin teaches how to play the classic “Petite Berceuse” by Alphonse Hasselmans. “An accent is always in relationship to the dynamic we are in.”

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Understanding Irish style—part 1 Taught by Gráinne Hambly In this lesson, Gráinne Hambly teaches about the harp's role in traditional Irish music. "If you want to learn more about Irish music, for me the key is listening to a lot of music—as much as possible, and not...

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