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My Harp's Delight. April 15, 2014. Buzzing is the bane of many a beginning harper. It’s especially hard to play “note-y” chords in the bass, because those strings, whether wire or wrapped nylon, vibrate in wider patterns. You can see them moving for a long time. So what is a harper to do to stop harp buzzing? Another way to think of it is this: are your fingers closing and opening below your knuckles? Or are you allowing your hand to twist or pull out of it’s good harp hand position? Subscribe here to re...
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My Harp's Delight. Improvise with Seventh Chords in Open Voicing. September 23, 2014. Notice that there are always two empty strings between your two hands, and you’ll find the positions more easily. Once you understand the pattern, you can of course play any chords in the key with the voicing. But for now, try to play through the sequence above, rolling the chords in each hand as one unit or playing arpeggios, until you get very comfortable with the progression. Improvise with Seventh Chords. Love My Ha...
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My Harp's Delight. Improvise with the Habanera. June 3, 2014. In a recent post, I gave you improvisation ideas using the harmonic minor scale. One place that this scale shows up is in the Habanera (often confused with the tango). I’ll repeat the notes about tuning that I gave you then:. Click image for larger version). Play through the chord changes with your left hand until you can do it without too much thought. Then you can start adding simple notes in your right hand. Try repeating just the c...Of co...
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My Harp's Delight. Harp Hand Position Tricks. February 11, 2014. Harp teachers everywhere emphasize the critical key elements of hand position. You know the drill: thumbs up, fingers down, all closing into the palm every time, and so on. But how about some harp hand position tricks to help as you try to practice? But what I’d really like to talk about today is the power of metaphor. Take “thumbs up”. Imagine that if your fingers were longer, they could brush the soundboard like it was the fur of an animal.
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My Harp's Delight. Improvise with the Blues. August 12, 2014. It’s fun and easy to improvise with the blues on your harp. The traditional blues progression is really quite easy. It consists of 12 bars in 4/4 time with a set progression. The simplest traditional chord progression is. IV IV I I. In the key of C, that would be. To keep that steady blues beat, you play the chord on all 4 beats of each bar, so you might think of it like this:. CCCC CCCC CCCC CCCC. FFFF FFFF CCCC CCCC. GGGG FFFF CCCC CCCC.
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My Harp's Delight. Tag Archives: hand position. April 15, 2014. Buzzing is the bane of many a beginning harper. It’s especially hard to play “note-y” chords in the bass, because those strings, whether wire or wrapped nylon, vibrate in wider patterns. You can see them moving for a long time. So what is a harper to do to stop harp buzzing? Another way to think of it is this: are your fingers closing and opening below your knuckles? Finally, play the passage very slowly, changing your hand position ever so ...
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My Harp's Delight. Tag Archives: crossing under. Quick Fixes for Harp Technique Issues. February 5, 2014. This post covers three fixes for harp technique issues. These are three of the most common issues that harp students have, once they’ve started to master the very basics of hand position. Make sure your fingers are low and your thumb is high–usually its the RE. Trouble making lever changes smoothly:. Often, buzzing happens because we’re opening and placing out of order–getting to the stri...Your emai...
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My Harp's Delight. Tag Archives: harmonic minor scale. Improvise with the Harmonic Minor Scale. May 20, 2014. Why improvise with the harmonic minor scale? For starters, it’s a lot of fun. The harmonic minor scale has a moody, mysterious sound, and almost anything you play will sound great. Glissing and fluttery patterns are very satisfying with this tuning. Let go of looking for the “right notes” and just experiment. Most of all, have fun! Subscribe here to receive notice of new posts and pages:. Subscri...
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My Harp's Delight. Improvise with Seventh Chords. September 9, 2014. For a lush and funky sound, we’re going to improvise with seventh chords. Here are the chords to use (familiar from Heart and Soul. But turned into sevenths); Cmaj7, Am7, Fmaj7, G7. Right now, you don’t even have to understand how those chords are constructed, because I’ll give you the notes. Subscribe here to receive notice of new posts and pages:. Improvise with Pachelbel Canon. Improvise with Seventh Chords in Open Voicing. Same inte...
