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Excuse me, I was channeling someone else.
A few of the Bochsa etudes in the Universal Method are adaptable to lever harp, but less than half.
You are young enough to learn and do well, maybe become an accomplished player, but you will have to move to where there is a good teacher, sorry to say, if there is no one near to you. If you study piano carefully, you will be able to translate it to the harp, and their are good videos on the mechanics of playing the piano. The big difference is that we have to close our fingers all the way into our hands when playing the string. Take a year or two to master piano as much as you can, and reading and understanding music theory and history, then move south. Or be a self-taught folk harper if you like.
Of course, if I compose a book of etudes, I expect everyone shall thoroughly learn each and every one!!
Of course, if I compose a book of etudes, I expect everyone shall thoroughly learn each and every one!!
Of course, if I compose a book of etudes, I expect everyone shall thoroughly learn each and every one!!
The harp is not the same as other instruments. Our physicality is completely different, however, I think other instruments have problems with too much repetition also in their etudes. The results we seek from etudes can be achieved with extensive exercises and repertoire.
The harp is not the same as other instruments. Our physicality is completely different, however, I think other instruments have problems with too much repetition also in their etudes. The results we seek from etudes can be achieved with extensive exercises and repertoire.
The harp is not the same as other instruments. Our physicality is completely different, however, I think other instruments have problems with too much repetition also in their etudes. The results we seek from etudes can be achieved with extensive exercises and repertoire.
I think, and Miss Lawrence certainly always held, that the strength of French training lay in all that solfege, etc. I don’t know how that does it, but memorizing an etude in one week would seem otherwise impossible. But that also doesn’t facilitate understanding the music well, necessarily, either, because that takes time and “Contemplation”. A lot of students who memorize quickly don’t necessarily read well, and may memorize mistakes, I have seen. Still, I would love to have that kind of facility in acquiring music, and to know just how it works. It must have to do with doing it while very young, like learning a language as a child, while the brain is developing.
I think, and Miss Lawrence certainly always held, that the strength of French training lay in all that solfege, etc. I don’t know how that does it, but memorizing an etude in one week would seem otherwise impossible. But that also doesn’t facilitate understanding the music well, necessarily, either, because that takes time and “Contemplation”. A lot of students who memorize quickly don’t necessarily read well, and may memorize mistakes, I have seen. Still, I would love to have that kind of facility in acquiring music, and to know just how it works. It must have to do with doing it while very young, like learning a language as a child, while the brain is developing.
I think, and Miss Lawrence certainly always held, that the strength of French training lay in all that solfege, etc. I don’t know how that does it, but memorizing an etude in one week would seem otherwise impossible. But that also doesn’t facilitate understanding the music well, necessarily, either, because that takes time and “Contemplation”. A lot of students who memorize quickly don’t necessarily read well, and may memorize mistakes, I have seen. Still, I would love to have that kind of facility in acquiring music, and to know just how it works. It must have to do with doing it while very young, like learning a language as a child, while the brain is developing.
The ABC of Harp Playing and the Pathfinder Studies by Lucile Lawrence, for sure, as they are for both kinds of harp and use all the keys. The Art of Modulating gives practice in chord changes and sightreading without pedal markings. The solos in it by Salzedo are in different keys but without pedal changes. It really isn’t difficult though to do pedaling. It’s more of a challenge to be playing more notes with more range and more bass in particular. There are tons of advanced beginner/intermediate solos.
By the way, are you related to Cynthia Lister?
I don’t think there’s any way for a student to be able to flatten fifths well until they have played for years. I would use a tuner with a good sounding pitch and have them match it,
