Product Number:
22020M
Format:
Book + Online Video
Skill Level:
Beginning
Pages:
28
Binding:
Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-9997-3
ISBN13:
978-07866-9997-1
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
9/22/2017
The Harpsicle Harp Method book is an excellent tool for learning to play the Harpsicle Harp or any size harp from the very beginning. No musical knowledge is necessary to use this method. All the music is written in the keys of C Major and A minor, so no sharping levers or pedals are needed. The guitar chords are displayed above the staff, so the students can add to the written music, or other instruments can accompany the harp. The music is graduated from two fingers to playing with both hands. The music is labeled to allow the students to gradually learn the notes and fingering without stress or frustration.
The method contains lessons on the parts of the harp, tuning, stringing, and taking care of your instrument. Also included in the method are reading music, time signatures and counting, placing and bracketing, finger drills, and much more. There are also eighteen songs, starting from very easy and continuing to add to the music, as the student progresses. All songs have labeled notes, to help the students learn notes and fingering. Online video compliments the book, and follows up the written instructions, with video footage, so the student can visually see the method. Includes access to online video.
Introduction
The Harpsicle Harp
Taking Care of Your Harp, Tuning
Holding Your Harp
Using Your Hands and Fingers
Plucking the Strings
Chords and Arpeggios
Reading Music
Time Signatures and Counting
Rests, Fingering, Repeat Signs
Brackets and Placing, Ties
Finger Drills
Go Tell Aunt Rhodie, Yankee Doodle
El Primo, Repeats and Endings, Dotted Notes, Key Signatures
Ode to Joy, Joy to the World
All Through the Night, New World Symphony
Greensleeves
The Christ Child's Lullaby, Minuet
Changing a String
Lavender's Blue
Oh, Susanna
Gaelic Hymn
Au Clair de la Lune
The Minstrel Boy
The Waltz of the Rising Sun
To a Wild Rose
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