Browse lessons Searching tips Lessons appear randomly. Use the search bar and filter options to narrow your search. Close individual filters or use the "clear" button at the bottom of the filters to clear everything including search text and start over. try a sample Free! choose a focus Repertoire Technique Specialty Level Level 1 2 3 All levels Genre Genre Celtic/Folk/Jazz Classical Other Topics Topic Arpeggios Articulation Bisbigliando Bossa nova Breathing Buzzing Cadenzas Chord progressions Chords Closing Contrary motion Counterpoint Counting Detache Directional placing Dynamics Effects Etudes Finger strengthening Fingering Flat octaves Folk Gestures Glissandos Hand position Harmonics Heartbeat rhythm Hornpipe Improvisation Intervals Jig Left-hand patterns Levers Memorization Modes Moving around the harp Muffling Music theory Musical structure Musicality Ornaments Ostinato pattern PDLT Pedals Phrasing Placing Polyrhythms Posture Practice tips Reel Relaxing Rhythm Rolled chords Scales Skeleton structure Slides Sound Soundboard tapping Treble Trills Tuning Voicing Warming up Lesson Teachers Teacher Alice Giles Amanda Whiting Angelica Hairston Anneleen Lenaerts Bridget Kibbey Cheryl Losey Feder Cindy Horstman Deborah Henson-Conant Edie Elkan Elizabeth Hainen Elzbieta Szmyt Emily Levin Felice Pomeranz Grace Browning Grainne Hambly Isabelle Perrin Jaymee Haefner Judy Loman June Han Katherine Siochi Kim Robertson Lynne Aspnes Maeve Gilchrist Maria Luisa Rayan Nicole Brady Park Stickney Rachel O'Brien Rhett Barnwell Sarah Bullen Sivan Magen Steve Moss Sunita Staneslow Sylvia Woods Tristan Le Govic Clear Learn how to create a major pentatonic scale for jazz improvisation. Deborah Henson-Conant teaches how to build the 1-5-10 chord for improvisation. Learn how to play the "cut," one of the most basic Irish ornaments. Free! Members of the Dallas Harp Quartet perform and discuss First Arabesque, by Claude Debussy. Learn how to create a minor key signature based on major key signatures and the circle of fifths. recommended Nicole Brady teaches how to play the folk song "Go Tell Aunt Rhody," from Suzuki Harp Book, Vol. 1. "Tone and tempo are key to playing more therapeutically," says Sunita Staneslow in this lesson on how to play in a therapeutic style. Members of the Dallas Harp Quartet perform and discuss Song in the Night, by Carlos Salzedo. June Han teaches how to play the second section of "Au Bord du Ruisseau," by Henriette Renié. Learn how to play Maeve Gilchrist's original composition "Fin and Sarah's Wedding Waltz." Music available In this lesson Amanda Whiting explains how to understand and play swing rhythm. Jaymee Haefner teaches how to play a single finger. Learn how to use key signatures to find major and minor intervals. Isabelle Perrin teaches how to play scales. Learn how to create minor 7th chords in this introductory video from jazz harpist Park Stickney. Learn how to add the "flat 9" to a dominant 7th chord. Elzbieta Szmyt performs and teaches "Processional" from "Graded Recital Series Volume Two," by Susann McDonald and Linda Wood. Learn why to use a metronome, along with Deborah's "penny method" for practicing with the metronome. Elzbieta Szmyt performs and teaches "Two Guitars" from Graded Recital Series Volume Four by Susann McDonald and Linda Wood Rollo. Learn how to create effective ornaments for improvisation and embellishment. Show more