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Maeve Gilchrist teaches the folk tune "Hospitality of Jane" from her collection "Traditional Tune Arrangements and Original Compositions for the Lever Harp, Book 1."
Alice Giles teaches how to strengthen hands and fingers to play fast.
Learn how to create major and minor scales using key signatures.
HCA master teacher Amanda Whiting answers questions about learning to play jazz, playing evenly, shoes for the harp, and more!
Tristan Le Govic performs and teaches the traditional Breton tune "Toutouig."
Learn how to play along with organ and piano on church hymns.
Members of the Dallas Harp Quartet perform and discuss Impromptu, Op. 86, by Gabriel Fauré.
Lynne Aspnes teaches how to play scales in one hand.
Listen to June's performance of "Chanson de Mai," by Alphonse Hasselmans, plus her tutorial on the opening section and middle "agitato" section.
In this lesson master teacher Lynne Aspnes teaches how to prepare "Procession" from Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" for harp and choir.
In this lesson Amanda Whiting shows explains the ii-V-I chord progression and how it is used in jazz.
Sarah Bullen shares her thoughts on warming up and tuning for orchestral playing.
Learn to play the traditional Irish jib "Flying to the Fleadh."
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play basic arpeggios.
Jaymee Haefner teaches how to tune.
Practice playing major triads and their inversions around the circle of fifths. (You'll need to know major key signatures to enjoy this lesson.)
Sarah Bullen teaches how to play the cadenza from "Swan Lake," by Tchaikovsky to harpist Jordan Thomas.
Learn how to play the 17th century love song "Eibhlà Gheal Chiúin" ("Fair, Gentle Eily").
In this lesson Amanda Whiting shows how to play the major blues. (To get the most from this lesson, watch Amanda's lesson on Dominant 7th Chords in her HCA studio.)
Sunita Staneslow teaches how and why to place fingers onto a group of strings at the same time.