Buying a harp
\nTuning the harp
\nPracticing
\nFingering and placing
\nTwo hands together
\nNote reading
\nMemorizing
\nImagination
\nPerformance
\nAvoiding injury
\nMiscellaneous
\nstrings – harp care
\nlevers – right vs. left hand
\ntips from other harp students
\nKolancy Music comments
\nResources<\/p>\n
This helpful information is great for pedal harp or lever harp players. Basic, all around helpful hints!<\/p>\n
TIPS INCLUDE:
\n-Buying a Harp – wire or nylon style harp, large or small harps, what to look for depending on your needs or what kind of music you want to play
\n-Tuning the Harp \u2013 how singing can help you tune, looking for the “do re mi” scale
\n-Practicing – how to get more out of your time, make the most of practice time
\n-Fingering and Placing – ideas to advance your playing by choosing good fingering patterns; the why’s and how of placing
\n-Two Hand Coordination – techniques to help you put both hands together; very simple approaches to fooling your brain!
\n-Note Reading – based on teaching the worst student about reading – namely me! I figured out how to accomplish this unruly task by finding the the big picture of logical visual patterns!!
\n-Memorizing – getting your mind and body to work together to recall patterns -because you already know tons of memorized phone number, passwords, codes, addresses!
\n-Imagination – stretch your playing style by plugging in playful habits; taking cues from kids!
\n-Ledger Lines – learn 2 methods for reading ledger lines
\n-Performing – getting over the jitters; great self talk exercises; food to avoid before performing
\n-Avoiding Injury – rethinking our habits to avoid injury; an outline to fight a tendonitis re-occurrence
\n-Harp Care – harps in cars, hot or cold weather, playing outside, changing strings, seeing your wire strings in the dark, right hand vs left hand – which hand is best to use for the melody
\n-Strings, levers, resources, great web sites and book list
\n-My favorite inspiring quotes to get you through the learning process and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Star Edwards’s Celtic Harp Tips<\/em> book includes encouraging and helpful ideas for all levels of lever or pedal harp playing! After teaching and conducting workshops on Celtic harp for more than ten years, Edwards presents answers to many of students’ common questions. If you are learning how to play, or have played for years, this book contains all kinds of great information of effective time-tested techniques! Scroll down for contents and notes from the author.<\/p>\n This book is available as a PDF download for $15.00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Pages to print:<\/em> 41 pgs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":124236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[825],"product_tag":[8411,266,477],"class_list":["post-123992","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-star-edwards","product_tag-split-products","product_tag-back-to-school","product_tag-harp-solo","pa_artist-edwards-star","pa_composer-edwards-star","pa_genre-educational-etudes","pa_genre-original","pa_harp-type-harp-lever","pa_instrumentation-harp-solo","pa_level-beginner","first","instock","downloadable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/123992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=123992"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=123992"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=123992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}