Hip Harp Academy

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Hip Harp Academy is a multi-level membership for harp players who want to liberate themselves from the written page.

Scroll down to see the yearly schedule of courses guided personally by Deborah Henson-Conant.

If you play the harp, you probably think you need to develop faster technique or more skills in order to play ‘better.’

But that’s a myth

The truth is that you just DON’T KNOW HOW to use what you ALREADY HAVE!

You’re stuck to the page because you haven’t been taught how music ‘works’. This goes for advanced and professional as well as fledgling or intermediate players.

You just don’t know how to use what you already have.

My new “Hip Harp Academy” is all about teaching you how to express yourSELF with your instrument at the technical ability you have right now, this very minute – and the Full membership level gives you access to all the online courses I’ve created in the past four years.

That means you’ll spend a whole year with me, developing your repertoire of self-expression.

For advanced players that means you’ll learn to improvise and really have fun with those ‘chops’ you’ve spent your life developing. For fledgling players it means learning  alternatives to your technical challenges so you can play fluently and creatively right now using the skills you do have.

For everyone it means learning the double-power of simplifying and embellishing so every piece you play continues to expand as you get more and more comfortable with your instrument … and yourself.

“This was the single most important musical course I have ever done in years of learning harp, and I would recommend it to anyone at any musical level.

To begin with, the course was absolutely jam-packed with incredible information, from beginning to end. Deborah’s information is carefully structured so that anyone at any level can work with the concepts … and the concepts I learned have become integral to my harping experience, like a kind of ‘harping code’.“

I had been searching for this information for years, going from teacher to teacher, but with this one course, Deborah gave me all the tools I needed for arranging music.” -BLYTHE TAIT (Australia)

What if this is the beginning of the greatest creative adventure of your lifetime?

—Deborah Henson-Conant

I’m Deborah Henson-Conant and I’ve created the Hip Harp Academy just for YOU, the impassioned harp player.

I’ve spent my life committed to creating new works for the harp, and to creating a new HARP — the “DHC” electric harp by CAMAC harps – and to empowering our worldwide harp tribe with new music, new ways of learning and new images of what it means to be a harp player.

What if I told you that you already have what you need to express yourself fully with your instrument – no matter what level – and you can start right now?”

It has to do with letting GO of what you think you need to do?

You’ve worked hard to get your instrument and learn everything you’ve already learned. It’s finally time to put everything you’ve learned – and everything you are – into full expression!  I will show you how in the Hip Harp Academy.

You can learn more about me and my experience HERE.

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Praise for the “New Blues Beyond the Page” mini-course ~ where you go behind-the-scenes to learn the secrets of playing one of my most popular compositions

“As an adult beginner on harp, I thought your “New Blues” was way too hard for me, but after I took ‘New Blues Beyond the Page’ I realized I CAN PLAY IT!”
– KATHY KING (U.S.A.)

Praise for the “Play with Passion” (“Baroque Flamenco Beyond the Page”) course ~ where we break apart another of my most popular compositions so you can create your own version.

“My sheet music has always been my safety net, and I couldn’t imagine myself to perform anything by memory. But when you broke Baroque Flamenco down into small pieces, it all felt so simple. I felt so safe. Thank you so much for making me do something that I thought was impossible.”
– ANNETTE SOLLIE HAGEN (Norway)

INVEST IN YOUR CREATIVE PASSION!

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Current course  (Closed) “Summer Harp Jam”

Learn more about Summer Harp Jam here

HERE’S WHAT’S YOU GET WITH YOUR “FULL” MEMBERSHIP

A. Ongoing courses to give you new REPERTOIRE, TOOLS and INSPIRATION throughout year

Take all the courses in this YEAR-LONG CURRICULUM – or just take the ones you want. Each new course is a new beginning, so you can’t fall behind. You’re always right on time.

I personally guide you through the curriculum  — and each guided course includes weekly Q&A chats, plus replays if you can’t make it live.  Do you prefer going at your own pace?  You can take the courses on your own anytime, and review as much as you want throughout your membership.

• “Blues by the Dozen” (Jun 20 – July 4):  A 12-day Blues Challenge to play a new Blues Melody each day and post your rendition by the next morning, using the techniques you learned in “Blues HarpStyle” ($297 Value)
• “Summer Harp Jam” (Jul. 11 – Aug. 31): In this fun, light summer program you’ll learn to jam alone or with others in this playalong virtual Summer Camp for Harpists – no homework, no stress – this is all about having fun and playing along in the moment (this is also a GREAT program for people who want to start playing with loopers.  Many of the jams you’ll learn in the course can be used with a looper pedal). ($579 Value)
• “Hands on Harmony” (TBD): 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.  Once or twice a year I run a virtual retreat where we go through it all together, and you can ask questions when I’m there live to answer them.  ($297 Value)
• “‘New Blues’ Beyond the Page” (TBD): Learn to make your own arrangement of one of my most popular tunes so you can add everything you learned in “Blues Harp-Style!” ($197 Value)
• “‘The Nightingale’ Beyond the Page” (TBD): A brand new program that breaks down my most requested piece so that you can easily memorize it, simplify it and see where you can build in your own improvisation  ($147 Value)
• Available at-your-own-pace: Quick-Technique Courses like “Loopers” and “Amplification,” an all-day Virtual “Hands on Harmony” retreat plus shorter “Beyond the Page” courses and challenges.
• “’Baroque Flamenco’ Beyond the Page” (Sept. 5 – Oct. 5):  You’ll learn to play one of the pieces that won me a Grammy Nomination – and take it beyond the page so you can play it as a fiery showpiece or a contemplative fantasia at your own level – simplified for fledglings – or all the bells and whistles for advanced. ($497 Value)
• Hip Harp Toolkit (including “Arrange Yourself”) (Oct 19 – Dec. 12):  – This is the foundational  ARRANGEMENT that gives you the structure of jazz arrangement form without the complexity of jazz harmonies or rhythms so that you can create impromptu arrangements and entire repertoires from simple tunes and the “DHC Method” of expanding them only ’til they work for YOU ($997 Value)
• “Strings of Passion” (Jan. 2018):  This is the foundational MINDSET course of Hip Harp Academy: a 10-Week creative expression course that takes you on a journey to the center of  your creative expression. You’ll develop your own daily creative practice with prompts, meditations and a workbook full of creative exercises. Most importantly you’ll have guidance and the chance to show your work and ask question. ($997 Value)
• “Blues Harp-Style” (TBA):  Learn a low-down Blues, a Boogie-Woogie Bassline and even a slow and sweet blues you can play in therapeutic situations. This is a great program for building a repertoire of fun tunes and learning to jam with others. It’s also a great course for harp ensembles ($597 Value)

The schedule may shift a little during the year, especially if I add a new course (which students sometimes convince me to do!) but these are all the courses currently in the curriculum for you!

• Blueprints, Cheat-sheets & Playsheets like the “Arrange-o-Matic” and “Left Hand Pattern CheatSheet” (Value $397)
• “Innerplay” mindset mini-Course (Value $97)
• “Creating Conducive Conditions” mini-course to help you make the most of your practice time. (Value $97)

C. Games, Challenges & Reviews to help you INTEGRATE what you learn

Fun programs to challenge you and help you integrate and implement everything you learn including:

• Course Reviews after each course  (Value $397)
• Sharing Challenges like the ‘Holiday Challenge” to create a shareable musical greeting card to send your friends and family (Value $397)

D. MEMBERSHIP in a powerful international CREATIVE COMMUNITY

Through the private Academy Facebook Group you’ll connect with impassioned harp players from all around the world (Value $497)

E. Your chance to work with legendary MASTER TEACHER in the harp world

You get to work directly with a Grammy-Nominated creative innovator, a master teacher, performer, composer and arranger who plays YOUR INSTRUMENT and can help you develop YOUR personal style of harp playing through the “DHC Method” and the full Hip Harp Curriculum. (Value – Incalculable)

TOTAL VALUE: 

$6287

YOUR COST:  $997

For a FULL year of guided programs

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HARP PLAYERS!

Break away from the notes on the page!