The Academy’s repertoire-building powerhouse program, the 10-week “Hip Harp Toolkit” teaches you to create spontaneous arrangements from any simple tune using a 5-part arrangement blueprint. 

You’ll also learn how to modulate, create medleys and power-generate repertoire whether you’re a professional harpist looking to liberate yourself from the notes on the page, an impassioned amateur who wants to play for family or friends, or a harp therapy practitioner looking for ways to be more responsive to your clients while expanding your repertoire and improvisation techniques. 

The Toolkit also includes a module on the business basics of promoting and sharing your repertoire. 

This class is also available  ‘a la carte,’ which includes 6 months of self-paced learning. To learn more about the class and register for it as a single, stand-alone class visit the Hip Harp Toolkit Info Page.

What if you could learn the art of singing and playing harp – together at the same time – in just a couple of hours?

Well, you CAN – if you know how to approach the learning process, and are able to simplify it to start with only 3 chords – so you can shift between them with your eyes closed (yes, literally closed).

This is actually the way that every ukulele and guitar player starts – with 3 chords – and you can start the same way, too – learning by shape and quickly developing a repertoire of songs you can sing alone or with others.

Once you’ve learned to do this at a simple level, “Sing & Play Harp” also shows you how you can expand and embellish what you’ve learned as your skills develop.

You can also take this class ‘a la carte’, which includes 6 months of self-paced learning. To learn more about the class and register for it as a single, stand-alone class, visit the “Sing & Play Harp” Info Page

“Jazz for Harps” covers the 4 Quadrants of Learning Jazz & Improv: Harmony, Rhythm, Roadmaps of tunes, and Improvisation.  

Learning the basics of how jazz ‘works’ expands your ability to improvise in every style of music – from jazz to folk to meditation music – and gives you skills in creating your own music, playing with ensembles and expanding the pieces you already play by adding improv sections or expanding the harmony.

You can also take this class ‘a la carte’, which includes 6 months of self-paced learning. To learn more about the class and register for it as a single, stand-along class, visit the Jazz for Harp Info-Page

“Blues Harp-Style” is 6-Module online course, especially for harp players. It gives  you  secrets to playing one of the world’s most fun, useful, and expressive musical forms: the Blues – no matter what your skill level.

By the end of the course you’ll be bending notes, improvising bass lines, comping, playing riffs and rhythms – and you’ll know how to do it alone or with others!

You’ll liberate yourself from the page by learning how the Blues WORKS – then expand your improv skills by learning to simplify, embellish and even modify Blues for therapeutic playing!

You can also take this class ‘a la carte’, which includes 6 months of self-paced learning. To learn more about the class and register for it as a single, stand-alone class, visit the Blues Harp-Style Info-Page

This essential course is always available for “at your own pace” learning because it gives you a theory and harmony foundation specifically for HARP – with hands-on exercises that get the harmony directly into your fingers.  

“Hands on Harmony” teaches you the essentials of how to EXPAND chords, create ALTERATIONS and apply SUBSTITUTIONS. It also gives you an introduction into the world of harmonic PROGRESSIONS, with many play-along exercises to integrate what you’re learning.

This class is also available  ‘a la carte,’ which includes 3 months of self-paced learning. To learn more about the class and register for it as a single, stand-alone class visit the Hands on Harmony Info Page.

What if you were liberated from the notes on the page, free to interpret music any way you wanted: as a meditation, as a joyful upbeat romp, as a sing-along, as a rhapsody.

What if you were creating a full arrangement – including improvisation – by looking at a single line melody and some chord symbols? 

What if you could spontaneously sit down and create a whole repertoire this way?

This is what it means to arrange from a lead sheet. Anyone has the technical ability to do it as soon they have basic facility on their instrument. You just need to know the process for doing it AND the practice of applying that process.

That’s exactly what I’ll show you in Lead Sheet Boot Camp.  Learn more at Lead Sheet Bootcamp

“New Blues Beyond the Page” is a self-paced Immersion class meant to be taken in an afternoon. It takes you inside one of my most popular song, “New Blues”, shows you how to deconstruct it into basic building blocks, so you can create your own semi-improvised version to play quickly, or to expand and explore for years.

“New Blues Beyond the Page” is currently only available as part of the year-long Academy Curriculum.

“One Song” is a new way of learning music: to distill a piece,  get to the heart of it quickly, and then to go deep with it, learning to play it as a simple instrument, or to sing with it, to turn it into a duet, an ensemble piece, or a meditation for responsive playing. 

When you learn to do that with One Song – you’ll know the secret of how to do it with any song.

This new self-paced class comes is FREE with  your Hip Harp Academy yearly membership … or you can purchase it as a stand-alone class. LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE