[HTL-103]  Harp Time Live

Start with Harps Tuned in C  

[HTL-103-230727 – HARP TIME LIVE #103 – Thu. Jul. 27, 2023]

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Comments from This Session of Harp Time Live

 

What we did:

We looked at what’s coming up next in the academy in Quarter 3

“The Power of Pattern” Quarter 

What if you had the freedom of SIX different layers of PATTERNS that each open a NEW REALM of freedom:

HARMONIC Patterns, MELODIC Patterns, ACCOMPANIMENT Patterns, CHORD SHAPES, LEFT-HAND Patterns & RHYTHMIC patterns – so that YOU can improvise at your experience level – with joy and freedom.  

It’s a great time to join Hip Harp Academy.  Check it out at https://www.hipharp.com/academy/ 

Snippet

Vamps from Summer Harp Jam
 
Tune harps to key of C
[LH] G
[RH] A F -shape is a 6th – move this shape around up or down – you can also add a 3rd above the bottom note or below the top note ie ADF

Gliss
Playing open 5ths
A E
G D
F C 
Play melodies abov this 

[LH] C  [RH] E G C
[LH] F [RH] AC

See video for demonstration on putting these patterns into rhythms

Please add your own insights, revelations, and takeaways below in the comments, even if someone else already said the same thing!  Just say it in your own way or say it again the way they did.

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16:18:19 From Tammy Halun to Everyone:
https://www.hipharp.com/academy/ 
16:32:49 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
Hello from Colorado 🙂
16:33:11 From Mary Misiaszek to Everyone:
Hi all – signing in from Rhode Island, USA
16:33:14 From Midge Jambor to Everyone:
Hello from Hawaii
16:33:16 From Célia Jurdant to Everyone:
Hello from Brittany, France
16:33:23 From Ruth Shepherd to Everyone:
Hi from Australia
16:33:53 From Célia Jurdant to Everyone:
It’s late here, so not sure how long I can stay 🙂 will do my best
16:34:12 From Cherie Maffey to Everyone:
Hi from NZ
16:34:38 From Mary Misiaszek to Everyone:
Sadly I have a meeting after this, so cannot stay until the end
16:34:45 From Bonnie Berk to Everyone:
Hello from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I will only be here for the first hour.
16:35:27 From Lynne Lapidus to Everyone:
Hello from Richmond, Virginia, USA
16:50:27 From Ruth Shepherd to Everyone:
Can increase the build up by playing the G once in first bar; twice in 2nd bar, 4 times in 3rd bar before the release glass in 4th bar…In RH Can also add both the 3rd above and 3rd below the outside notes I.e. A,C,D,F and move that pattern
16:50:40 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
ornaments danced back down.
16:50:44 From heather flinn to Everyone:
This is a great intro for anything major-ish as opposed to minor-ish
16:50:50 From Lawrence JohnsonHenson-Conant and members of Hip Harp Academy Wordwide. to Everyone:
You can start on any note in the right hand using the pattern, and it sounds great.
16:51:03 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
gliss shifts to ornamnts that dane down, they blend together
16:51:04 From Carol Booth to Everyone:
At first I was confused and searching for the the top note, but after a while my fingers found the pattern
16:51:14 From Cherie Maffey to Everyone:
I’m finding I can do the 6ths so much easier now with practice.
16:52:01 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
It appeared also a great shape to play stride with. Leaving my RH to noodle
16:52:40 From Lynne Lapidus to Everyone:
At the top I almost came to a resolution chord and kept the tension by going back down and up right there a few times
16:52:41 From mona to Everyone:
One of the stock intros I need! I love it! Jealous of the girl that adds the extras! Tomorrow I can do that!
16:52:46 From Karen Adams to Everyone:
Build anticipation if end gliss on can use as intro to any song in c
16:53:30 From Célia Jurdant to Everyone:
Love the shape idea. Simple. And a great way to free oneself of looking at the notes
16:53:43 From Bonnie Berk to Everyone:
you can play the pattern downward
16:54:25 From Tammy Halun to Everyone:
Facebook Live comment from Erika
Gradually increasing the volume each time adds dramatic effect.
16:54:45 From Mary Misiaszek to Everyone:
If in a different ket, then just start with V?
16:55:11 From Ruth Shepherd to Everyone:
3 legged dog patterns works well in RH too
17:01:24 From Mary Misiaszek to Everyone:
Is there any pattern or rules to what you are doing in your right hand after you play the 5ths
17:01:40 From Tammy Halun to Everyone:
Playing open 5ths
A E
G D
F C
17:02:52 From Tammy Halun to Everyone:
6, 5, 4
A, G, F (a space to noodle around in)
17:09:02 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
I really like a walking baseline and just improvising with my treble hand. The treble can led the base and vice versal
17:09:27 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
yes, sycopatuin is lovely
17:09:43 From Lawrence JohnsonHenson-Conant and members of Hip Harp Academy Wordwide. to Everyone:
The new pattern is a great platform for improv – different from a lot that we have done before.
17:09:45 From Cherie Maffey to Everyone:
Can play the A E etc as broken or block chords, can arpeggiate with noodling or do 3rds , 6ths in right hand.
17:09:48 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
I got mixed up in 2 different styles, 1 mediaval and one modern jazzy like an d I didn’t’t know how incorporate them.
17:09:49 From heather flinn to Everyone:
A really simple left hand but it is enough for a beautiful tune on top
17:09:49 From Bonnie Berk to Everyone:
I liked playing the pattern of fifths ending in GD and then it makes it rhythmically feel right to move into the first pattern
17:10:14 From mona to Everyone:
Maybe we begin with the fanfare then do the third one and then the ae part and then the fanfare .
17:10:31 From Wendy Savage to Everyone:
The building of these musical ideas come together so simply. Allowing the space to develop more easily.
17:10:45 From Laurie to Everyone:
The more we repeated the 2 patterns, the easier it was to find my way fitting them together
17:10:52 From Mary Misiaszek to Everyone:
I like playing the 6ths in different rhythms and speeds
17:11:06 From Mary Misiaszek to Everyone:
Woops – 5ths!
17:11:32 From Julia Cunningham to Everyone:
It’s amazing how such a simple pattern can be turned into so many different styles.
17:13:07 From Célia Jurdant to Everyone:
Replying to “3 legged dog pattern…”
What is the 3 legged dog ?
17:16:30 From Ruth Shepherd to Everyone:
Replying to “3 legged dog pattern…”

A pattern of a 2nd, then a 3rd: e.g. G, A, C,
17:18:46 From Lynne Lapidus to Everyone:
like la bamba
17:19:15 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
Yes, exactly
17:22:14 From Célia Jurdant to Everyone:
Reacted to “A pattern of a 2nd, …” with 👌
17:22:17 From Célia Jurdant to Everyone:
Replying to “3 legged dog pattern…”
Thx
17:24:11 From Bonnie Berk to Everyone:
Thanks Deborah! Lots to play with. Gotta go. Have a great weekend with these patterns everyone!
17:25:34 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
So interesting, but sadly I can’t stay awake any longer. Have fun.
17:25:59 From Tammy Halun to Everyone:
To join Hip Harp Academy https://www.hipharp.com/academy/ 
17:32:15 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
I very much like shifting between major, minor and a bit of dissonance. CReates a beautiful arc and all imorov 🙂
17:32:50 From Julia Cunningham to Everyone:
When you think in terms of patterns, you don’t have to worry about what notes your playing.
17:32:58 From Cherie Maffey to Everyone:
The pattern is similar to Baroque Flamenco, the intro, the variation and rhythm.
17:33:17 From Lara-may Thorne to Everyone:
It’s nice to have the freedom to play without much thought
17:33:19 From Ruth Shepherd to Everyone:
Learning by pattern is now the easiest, fastest, most reliable way for me to learn and remember . This is now a whole piece that we can play in any style we choose.
17:33:26 From mona to Everyone:
We can play songs without music, we can string simple patterns to make something fun. Then we can fine tune it and expand it, or not!
17:33:36 From Cherrie Mooney to Everyone:
Lots of experimenting. I seem to improv only using the given chord notes, even though I know I can use any notes. I’ll need to loosen up.
17:34:49 From Wendy Savage to Everyone:
Very fun, putting them together helps with transition from one idea to the other. Even if I couldn’t play the whole pattern I could play some of it. But after a while I could do it. It’s all about transitioning for me.
17:35:15 From Ingele to Everyone:
Great combinación, very powerful! And very sensitive is the minor part, love it!
17:35:31 From Judi MacKenzie to Everyone:
Opportunity for limitless creativity and freedom. Love it! Have to sign off now, but planning to join Hip Harp Academy by the 31st. Thank you!
17:35:47 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
Already there withyou – gotta get head out of the way 🙂 best music is in the deep ocean of flow
17:36:13 From Célia Jurdant to Everyone:
Yes transitioning between the three has been interesting to me. They each have their own character but somehow connect well
17:36:28 From Wendy Savage to Everyone:
Reacted to “Yes transitioning be…” with ❤️
17:36:31 From Pam Jurgens to Everyone:
Finding that the more adventurous I get the more new patterns Are found. Challenge
Is remembering them tomorrow. Need to find a short hand way to take notes (any ideas? )
Challenge is to truly integrate new things before they float away
17:37:43 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
Hi Pam – get staff paper, make quick notes. And play today more after we finish…
17:41:09 From Pam Jurgens to Everyone:
Great idea! Thank you! I need a binder so I can find the papers again!!
17:42:29 From Tammy Halun to Everyone:
To join Hip Harp Academy https://www.hipharp.com/academy/ 
17:45:18 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
Are those red notes for the bass hand??
17:47:01 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
So I wrote this pattern out with an arpeggiated chord sequence all in bass hand so mytreble is free to play
17:54:04 From Julia Cunningham to Everyone:
Beautiful share, Carol!
17:54:55 From heather flinn to Everyone:
Gotta go go gooooooooo Everyone should join! You will learn so much – watch as many of the videos as you can absorb and don’t expect to be able to take it all in on the first time through. Definitely learn how to post videos as there is so much to learn even if you only pluck two strings. If you are a pro don’t be a perfectionist as this is a safe space to LEARN something new!
17:56:09 From mona to Everyone:
1. Three hours of playing, instruction, group learning by sharing our work every Monday.
2. Catch up coaching is getting help with anything. Every week.
3. Office hour 1x a week with DHC for
class of playing together, then she helps with every issue we have!
4. Ambient improv and random harp sharing where again, we play together with a snippet and then everyone shares their work!
5. Harp time live once a month.
6. Yes we have accountability buddies!
7. Then you have all these special challenges and you learn more than you could have dreamed. I’m going from forever fledgling to a magnificent swan!
Nowhere can you get this much bang for any amount of bucks!
17:57:18 From Célia Jurdant to Everyone:
This has been wonderful! What a cool community. Time zone is tricky. I am way past my bed time 🥱 and very energized 😅. Thank you so much for what you are offering.
17:57:56 From Wendy Savage to Everyone:
Replying to “This has been wonder…”

Celia hope you join…you’ll truly love it.
17:58:30 From Julia Cunningham to Everyone:
Reacted to “1. Three hours of pl…” with ❤️
17:59:57 From Wendy Savage to Everyone:
Bye…see you soon!!!!
18:00:17 From Célia Jurdant to Everyone:
Replying to “This has been wonder…”
Not this time. My hands are full with two trainings and my own ! But I’ll come and visit again when and if I can
18:14:22 From mona to Everyone:
We can never stop working. I gave up having a car for my harp life.
18:16:21 From Valerie Wedel to Everyone:
Thanks again, Deborah – this is fantastic. Slainte –
18:23:24 From Nancy Cochran to Everyone:
Thank you so much, Deborah1 Always.
18:23:32 From Sally Walstrum to Everyone:
Nice to meet you, Valerie!
18:23:33 From Shelley Johnson-Garstin to Everyone:
Thank you, again! I joined yesterday and am so looking forward to being with all of you and learning from all of you!
18:23:48 From Lawrence JohnsonHenson-Conant and members of Hip Harp Academy Wordwide. to Everyone:
welcome Shelley

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What are the principles and concepts in this session? If you had to remember what you learned, or someone said, "Quick! I have to do an improv! What did you learn in this 'Harp Time Live!' session that I can use??" - What would you tell them?