Starting my first song

[Asha the Nagini]

Hi, everyone!

I hope you’re all well.

[rod-c]

Asha:

I’m sure this piece will be the first of many

[Minnesota Harpist]

Asha, I understand your excitment!

[Asha the Nagini]

Carol, hooray!

[Asha the Nagini]

Last night my teacher had me use both hands together.

[Audrey Nickel]

It’s an exciting thing, isn’t it, when you first get a tune under your fingers!

Re learning to keep the beat, one thing that will help is to do a lot of listening.

[Audrey Nickel]

Here’s a really good recording of that song (sung at speed).

[Asha the Nagini]

Thanks so much, Audrey.

[Audrey Nickel]

No prob.

[Asha the Nagini]

Just in case anyone’s following along at home, I can now play “Star of the County Down” with both hands.

[jessica-wolff]

When I first started playing harp, I found it difficult to put both hands together because I was used to guitar, where your hands are working together to produce one sound. Also reading off a double staff instead of a single one, and keeping my thumb forward instead of back. OTOH it’s a lot easier to learn theory from the harp than from the guitar.

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