product id: 3082
Arrangement: harp (folk/celtic)
Product type: Methods
Media: Book
Series: Basic Series
Pages: 80
Author: Laurie Riley
Language: English
Expected shipping time: 48 hours
Price: 14.95 euro A basic, easy-to-understand, step-by-step method about playing the harp. Extensively illustrated, this book is for musicians of all levels, requiring only an interest in learning to play the harp. The material in the book can be applied to any type of harp (with or without pedals) and any type of music. Specific topics covered include basic positioning, tuning, and techniques, etudes, and a colorful selection of folk harp solos. Each section of the book is arranged to show the most efficient way to learn quickly and as easily.
Contents:
Each section of this book is arranged to show you the most efficient way to learn quickly and easily. If you follow the lessons carefully and in order (without skipping any section or jumping ahead and back), you will find your progress is natural and swift. Each chapter and section is of equal importance and represents an essential building block in your musical foundation, assuring that you will be able to get a lifetime of enjoyment from your harp.
Detailed contents of Basic Harp for Beginners
Introduction
The Harp (diagram)
The Types of Harps
Learning Sections:
1. How to Sit With Your Harp
2. How to Tune Your Harp
3. How to Use Your Hands
Diagram: How the Musical Staff Compares with the Harp and Piano
4. How to Read Music Notation
5. Finger Placement
6. How to Read Harp Tablature
7. Beginning Etudes
8. First Tune: "The Beginner's Waltz"
9. Preparatory Etudes 4 and 5
10. Second Tune: "The Soldier's Hornpipe"
11. Walking Fingers
12. Third Tune: "Blossom Petals Falling"
13. Non-Threatening Theory
14. Crossovers and Scales
15. Fourth Tune: "Cathedral Bells"
16. More Easy Theory
17. Fifth Tune: "Brian Boru's March" version 1
18. Rolled, Broken, and Open Chords
19. Variation on Fifth Tune: "Brian Boru's March" version 2
20. Sixth Tune: "Nonesuch"
21. The Levers
22. Octave Jumps
23. Ninth Tune: "Return from Fingall"
24. Ornamentation
25. Tenth tune: "The Grace Note Waltz"
More Tunes to Learn
Campbell's Farewell
Castle Kelly
Flowers of Edinburgh
Lovely Joan
Mist-Covered Mountains
Parson's Farewell
Round the Horn
The Rushes
Sally Gardens
Tha Mi Sgith
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