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Welcome to Harp Tuesday!






Harp Tuesday
is a once every two week video series which features me burbling on about various aspects of playing the harp.

This page if currently very basic, but I wanted to put something together to make it easy for you to find the various video clips from the series.  Click the episode to see a list of that week's videos.

Episode one featured an in-depth look at Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols (November 29, 2010)

Episode two was part one of two of an in-depth look at John Rutter's Dancing Day (December 7, 2010)

Episode three - part two of two on John Rutter's Dancing Day (December 14, 2010)

Episode four - Your first harp lesson (December 21, 2010)

Episode five - learning to read music and tuning your lever harp (December 28, 2010)

Episode six - changing 2 pedals with one foot (January 4, 2011)

Episode seven - 2nd harp lesson - fingering and chords, plus follow-up to episode 6 (January 11, 2011)

Episode eight - Rolled/broken chords (January 19, 2011)

Episode nine - Harmonics (Jan. 26, 2011)

Episode ten - How to change a harp string (Feb. 2, 2011)

Episode eleven - Arm and Wrist movement (March 1, 2011)

Episode twelve - Trills (March 23, 2011)

Episode thirteen through seventeen featured an in-depth look at Fauré's Impromptu. (March 31 - May 31, 2011)

Episode eighteen - Glisses (June 14, 2011)

Episode nineteen and twenty - an in-depth look at Salzedo's Song in the Night / Chanson dans la Nuit (July 19, Aug. 2, 2011)

Episode 21 - Fingering - scales and crossing over/under (August 16, 2011)

Episode 22 - Learning O'Carolan's Air from Betty Paret's First Harp Book (August 30, 2011)

Episode 23 - Four-fingered chords and finger independence (Sept. 13, 2011)

Episode 24 - Muffling and Dampening - part 1 - open octaves (Sept. 27, 2011)

Episode 25 - Muffling and Dampening - part 2 - staccato right hands notes and general muffling (Oct. 11, 2011)

Episode 26  - Playing Fast!  Some thoughts and suggestions on ways to play fast.  (Oct. 25, 2011)

Episode 27 - Sliding - a look at thumb and fourth finger slides (Nov. 8, 2011)

Episode 28 - Nerves and performance anxiety - being at your best while performing (Nov. 22, 2011) (1 year of Harp Tuesdays!)

Episode 29 - Learning 'Old English Country Dance' (December 13, 2011)

Episode 30 - Transcribing music for harp (Jan. 3, 2012)

Episode 31 - Arranging Greensleeves (Jan. 17, 2012)

Episode 32 - Arranging Greensleeves - part 2 (Jan. 25, 2012)

Episode 33 - Arranging Greensleeves - part 3 (Feb. 1, 2012)