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September newsletter – Spring CD release tour, music videos, new composition and more!

My September email newsletter went out earlier this month – check it out below, and sign up to get it delivered straight to your inbox! ——————————————————————————————- Josh Layne, Harpist Happy September, everyone! Welcome to the first edition of a new format for my email newsletter. I’m now using MailChimp‘s great (and free!) set of tools, […]

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Episode 47 of Harp Tuesday is up!

Harp Tuesday, Learning / Josh

In this episode I offer a look at my own attempts to play a better 4-fingered trill – hopefully you may get some ideas of different ways to approach things on which you’re currently working!

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Episode 46 of Harp Tuesday is up!

Harp Tuesday / Josh

I offer some thoughts on using a metronome:

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Learning the Violin – my journey so far (part 2)

Learning, Learning the Violin, Music / Josh

First Steps: I love the piano; if I didn’t play the harp, I’d want to play the piano. I like the sound, but more importantly I want to be able to play harmony – a bunch of notes at the same time. But I do play the harp and so, for now at least, the

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Learning the Violin – my journey so far (part 1)

Learning, Learning the Violin, Music / Josh

I’m learning the violin, and I want to blog about the process. I’m going to start by writing about the journey that’s led me to where I am right now. For that, I’m going to go way back to 1992. I was 15 and had been playing the harp for a couple years. I originally

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A current composition

Composing, Music / Josh

Here’s a short snippet of a composition I’m working on right now

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Episode 45 of Harp Tuesday is up!

Harp Tuesday / Josh

Episode 45 – I talk about doing lever changes on the folk harp: And a bonus video – setting up for Skype lessons:

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States of learning – being overwhelmed

Arranging Greensleeves, Learning, Music / Josh

I like thinking about learning, and how it happens. I try and observe my own learning closely, since it’s the only time I can actually be inside someone’s head as learning occurs. Recently I had a couple experiences that reminded me of a state of mind that we, or at least, I, sometimes experience as

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The “arranging Greensleeves project” is finished!

Arranging Greensleeves, Harp Tuesday, Music, Music Videos, News / Josh

This is something I started back in January – taking a familiar tune (Greensleeves), arranging it, and talking about the process on video as part of my Harp Tuesday series. I finished the piece quite awhile ago, but it’s taken a long time to do a bunch of the things I wanted to do before

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Welcome to my blog!

News / Josh

Hi all, As part of a general website overhaul, I’m finally starting a blog! I’ll be talking about music, learning, and keeping you up-to-date with what I’m doing. My plan is to add new content at least once a week, on Wednesday. What fun :) Josh

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