{"id":17434,"date":"2017-09-14T06:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harpcolumnmusic.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=17434"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:06:23","slug":"first-lessons-folk-harp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/all-music\/artists\/star-edwards\/first-lessons-folk-harp\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lessons Folk Harp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Contents<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lesson #1: Music Basics<\/strong><br \/>\nLedger Lines and Time Signatures<br \/>\nRhythm Table<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #2: Parts of the Folk Harp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #3: How to Tune the Folk Harp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #4: Wire Strung Harp or Nylon Strung Harp?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #5: Sitting Position at the Folk Harp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #6: How to Position Your Hands at the Folk Harp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #7: Placing and Brackets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #8: Basic Music Patterns<\/strong><br \/>\nNeighbor Note Patterns<br \/>\nMixed Patterns<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #9: Whole Notes, Half Notes and Rests<\/strong><br \/>\nPachelbel Canon<br \/>\nStreets Of Doolin <\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #10: Quarter Notes, Rests and Replacing Patterns<\/strong><br \/>\nMusic Alone Shall Live<br \/>\nUn Canadien Errant<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #11: One Note Bass Patterns <\/strong><br \/>\nTon Ton Ton<br \/>\nKing Arthur\u2019s Harp <\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #12: Dotted Half Notes and Ties <\/strong><br \/>\nRed Is The Rose<br \/>\nHand In Hand With Flora <\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #13: Pick Up Measures and Drone Bass Patterns<\/strong><br \/>\nWake Up Canon<br \/>\nRed River Valley<br \/>\nAlleluya<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #14: Eighth Notes<\/strong><br \/>\nBourree<br \/>\nBrahms Lullaby<br \/>\nJa Nuns Hons Pris<br \/>\nPeggy Gordon<br \/>\nMay Day Carol<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #15: Glissandos<\/strong><br \/>\nGolden Leaves In Fall<br \/>\nButterflies In Summer<br \/>\nSnow Flurries On A Moonless Night<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #16: Dotted Quarter Notes<\/strong><br \/>\nChildgrove<br \/>\nCome Follow To The Greenwood<br \/>\nBlack Eyed Susan<br \/>\nLonesome Road<br \/>\nSweet Dreams Lullaby<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #17: Raising Levers for a New Key<\/strong><br \/>\nFairy Plaint Music<br \/>\nLast Song Before I Go<br \/>\nBride Parish<br \/>\nGavotte<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #18: Bass Hand Chord Patterns<\/strong><br \/>\nCaliente Rojo<br \/>\nLos Tres Santos Reyes<br \/>\nShe\u2019s Gone To Be Wed With Another<br \/>\nEileen Aroon<br \/>\nGreensleeves <\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #19: Reading Ledger Lines<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Spanish Lady<br \/>\nAll Night, All Day<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson #20: Mixed Bass Patterns<\/strong><br \/>\nQuick Scotch<br \/>\nHibernia\u2019s Lovely Jane<br \/>\nThe Chanter<br \/>\nThe Standing Stones<br \/>\nThe Sweet Nightingale<br \/>\nPlease To See The King<br \/>\nBoats Rocking In The Water<br \/>\nThe Cat\u2019s Jig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;First Lessons Folk Harp&#8221; is an instructional guide by Star Edwards, designed for the beginner lever (or pedal) harp student who has no prior music training. 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Illustrations help show hand positions, and accompanying online audio allows students to play along as they learn.<\/p>\n<p>This method book is available as a PDF download for <strong>$9.99<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Length<\/em>: 34 pgs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[825],"product_tag":[266,519,570,352,672,477,417],"class_list":["post-17434","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-star-edwards","product_tag-back-to-school","product_tag-celtic","product_tag-collection","product_tag-easy","product_tag-folk","product_tag-harp-solo","product_tag-instructional","pa_artist-edwards-star","pa_collection-collection","pa_composer-various","pa_genre-educational-etudes","pa_genre-folk-traditional","pa_harp-type-harp-lever","pa_instrumentation-harp-solo","pa_level-beginner","pa_publisher-mel-bay","first","instock","downloadable","virtual","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/17434","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=17434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=17434"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=17434"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=17434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}