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Learn how to create diminished scales for use in improvisation. (To get the most from this video, we suggest first watching Park's tutorial on Diminished 7th Chords.)
Learn Rhett's tools for staying calm while playing in church.
Nicole Brady teaches how to cross under and over to play an 8-note scale.
Sarah Bullen teaches the cadenza from "Waltz of the Flowers," from "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky, to harpist Katherine Ventura.
Nicole Brady teaches how to play "Gigue," by Mary Kay Waddington, from Suzuki Harp Book Vol. 1.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play Sharon Thormahlen's arrangement of the traditional carol "Still, Still, Still."
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.)
Learn Maeve Gilchrist's technique for accompanying using arpeggios.
Listen to June Han's performance and learn how to play the first section of "Au Bord du Ruisseau," by Henriette Renié.
Go beyond major and minor to build diminished and augmented triads, the building blocks for 7th chords.
Isabelle Perrin teaches how and why to play fingers exactly together.
Listen to June's performance, and advice for playing the opening melody of Alphonse Hasselmans' "Petite Valse."
Learn how to build major and minor triads using intervals.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to quickly and easily move levers up and down on a lever harp.
In this lesson Amanda Whiting shows the modes that occur in the key of C Major, along with how to use modes for improvisation.
Alice Giles teaches how to strengthen hands and fingers to play fast.
Isabelle Perrin teaches how to avoid buzzing in your playing.
Lynne Aspnes teaches how to prepare "That Yonge Child" from "A Ceremony of Carols," by Benjamin Britten.
Tristan Le Govic performs and teaches the traditional Breton air "An hini a garan" ("The One I Love").
Learn how to create a legato sound using J.S. Bach's "Prelude in C."