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Harp lesson resources

28/3/2019

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Edinburgh based Polish harpist, Zuzanna Olbrys, has excellent resources on her website HERE which are well worth bookmarking to visit regularly. She has written some really interesting articles which I have enjoyed reading. 
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If you sign up to her newsletter you get a free eBook which I would highly recommend for anyone thinking about learning the harp. It contains very good advice and excellent tips for anyone wanting to learn the harp. Do check it out and sign up for her newsletter HERE
You can hear Zuzanna play on her soundcloud here
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Hermes win

19/3/2019

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So pleased to hear that the Hermes Experiment, contemporary ensemble with harpist Anne Denholm, has won the mixed ensemble category of the Royal OverSeas League. 

It's a prestigious competition and great that they have won it.
Anne Denholm is a lovely person and a great harpist! As well as one quarter of the Hermes Experiment she is of course the Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales  - more about Anne here
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One Finger Harp

18/3/2019

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Having spent a lot of today learning some complex contemporary music full of staccato notes, I can SO relate to this cartoon. 

I wish the music I had to learn was more like the music that Daffy Duck is playing!
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Teaching - ledger line notes in different clefs

6/3/2019

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I've just done this chart for a pupil and posting it here in case it's useful for anyone else.
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It's tricky if you are new to learning to read music at the same time as learning to play the harp. Very easy to get confused when the left hand of the music jumps about between bass clef and treble clef and you are reading ledger lines. It can take a while to work out which octave a note is in!

For those new to reading music and harp playing - harpists tend to only use 3-4 ledger lines maximum. Advanced players will read more ledger lines, but 3 is absolutely fine for beginners and intermediate harpists and there is no need to learn to read notes with more ledger lines than that. 

Composers - If a note needs more than 3 ledger lines than change to a different clef where there aren't any - or use the 8va or 8vb.  If you can avoid using ledger lines by using the 8va or 8vb then it's good practice to do so.

This chart has lots of ledger lines that we wouldn't normally use and are there just for note comparison.


​Hopefully this chart will help those new to the harp who are also learning to read music at the same time.
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