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Jaymee Haefner shows her tricks for using Post-it notes and highlighter tape to practice more efficiently.
Learn Lynne Aspnes' tips for articulation.
Indiana University harp professor Elzbieta Szmyt answers questions about practicing, playing scales, repertoire suggestions, and more.
Learn how to create a minor key signature based on major key signatures and the circle of fifths.
Learn the difference between Classical and Celtic hand position in this tutorial on basic posture.
Learn to play a basic I, IV, V, I chord progression.
In this lesson Lynne Aspnes teaches how to sit at the harp for ergonomic playing.
Learn to play Maeve Gilchrist's original composition "Catriona's Jig."
Jaymee Haefner shows how to assess your own playing and be a better teacher for yourself.
Deborah Henson-Conant teaches how to add cookie cutter chords and patterns to improvise with the 1-5-10 chord. (Watch parts 1 and 2 in this series to learn how to build and use the 1-5-10 chord.)
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to play Laura Zaerr's original composition for lever harp "River Right Rhumba."
Members of the Dallas Harp Quartet perform and discuss Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra, K. 299 by W. A. Mozart.
Jaymee Haefner teaches how to play multiple fingers.
Tristan Le Govic performs and teaches the traditional Breton air "An hini a garan" ("The One I Love").
Members of the Dallas Harp Quartet perform and discuss Variations on a Theme in Ancient Style, by Carlos Salzedo.
Elzbieta Szmyt performs and teaches "Russian Lullaby" from "Graded Recital Series Volume Three," by Susann McDonald and Linda Wood.
Sunita Staneslow teaches how to create a good tone on a lever harp.
Jaymee Haefner teaches how to play a basic glissando.
Go beyond major and minor to build diminished and augmented triads, the building blocks for 7th chords.
The Philadelphia Orchestra principal harpist Elizabeth Hainen answers questions about auditioning, editing excerpts, sound projection, and more!