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Isabelle Perrin teaches how to play hand-over-hand arpeggios.
Learn Kim Robertson's technique for adding chord vamps.
Indiana University harp professor Elzbieta Szmyt answers questions about practicing, playing scales, repertoire suggestions, and more.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to sit at a lever harp.
In this lesson on how to practice, expert Rachel Lee Hall explains how to isolate "microsections" for more efficient practice.
Learn Bridget Kibbey's method for tuning by ear using the circle of fifths.
Isabelle Perrin teaches how to play "Midnight Stars," from "First Grade Pieces for Harp," by Marcel Grandjany and Jane Weidensaul.
Jaymee Haefner shows her tricks for using Post-it notes and highlighter tape to practice more efficiently.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play "Seagull," from "Soaring Strings," by Kathryn Cater.
Jaymee Haefner teaches how to play "Nocturne" from "Trois Pieces Faciles," by Marcel Grandjany.
Learn how to build major and minor triads using intervals.
Learn to create and improvise on the minor pentatonic and blues scales.
Maeve Gilchrist teaches the folk tune "Hospitality of Jane" from her collection "Traditional Tune Arrangements and Original Compositions for the Lever Harp, Book 1."
June Han teaches how to play the cadenza from Maurice Ravel's "Introduction and Allegro." (Part 1 focuses on the first page.)
Isabelle Perrin teaches how to play "Gavotte" from Petite Suite Classique, by Marcel Grandjany.
In this lesson Amanda Whiting shows how to create and practice the dominant 7th chord.
Deborah Henson-Conant teaches how to play the tapping effects found in the cadenza section of "Baroque Flamenco."
Learn how to create a beautiful sound at the harp with Lynne Aspnes.
Learn the values of rests in 4/4 time.
In this lesson Amanda Whiting shows how to take your knowledge of modes and soundscapes to build the basic "blues" chord progression.