Feb 25, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, harp, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses, Uncategorized |
I just finished creating the “Blueprint for Creativity” immersion classes for the new Hip Harp Academy Onramp program. What’s a Blueprint for Creativity? It’s a distilled version of a musical form, paring it down to the bones, so it’s easy-peasy to play...
Feb 18, 2021 | Creativity, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
It’s no secret that I love structure. That might not be obvious if you saw my desk, my refrigerator, my closet or my computer filing system. But I’m not talking about ‘organization’ – I’m talking about internal structure. This, for example, is the structure or...
Feb 16, 2021 | Events, Hip Harp Academy
A FREE TRAINING for Harpists fromDeborah Henson-Conant Structure IS FreedomAn Intro to Blueprints for Creativity Blueprints for Creativity is a new Immersion class series at Hip Harp Academy. This free training is an overview for that series. SUN. FEB. 28, 2021 at...
Feb 5, 2021 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Love Stories (Wired for Love)
A FREE TRAINING for Harpists fromDeborah Henson-ConantAbout how to create a Musical Message of Lovewith your own two hands … and a harp 20 Seconds of LOVEAn ENCORE Presentation It’s easy to create a Personalized Video Valentine that combines your spoken...
Jan 12, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy |
The Hip Harp Academy students and I went on a Zoom Field Trip to the Celia Slattery Voice & Performance Studio. “A strong vocals 101 lesson with great warmups and education about where the voice comes from. Even with COPD, I could still sing and enjoy it. It...
Dec 17, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning HHT Student Projects, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy |
Welcome to the 2020 Hip Harp Academy Fall/Winter Video Projects! Check out the creativity and fun in all these video from harpists who just finished a class in arrangement and improv. Every one. ofthese players is committed to liberating themselves from the notes on...
Nov 20, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy
Play the harp? Wanna be more creative? Liberate yourself from the notes on the page? Think you might want to play HOLIDAY MUSIC any time this season? I created HOLIDAY Lead Sheet Bootcamp for YOU! Join me for six self-paced play-along Immersion sessions –...
Nov 2, 2020 | Events, Hip Harp Academy
FREE ~ EVERY THURSDAY at 4:30 pm EST “That was phenomenal!!! SO MUCH fun!”~ Naomi M. “This was a perfect ‘recipe’ and for some reason, these notes just fit into the fingers so well!” ~Laurie G. Sign up to Play-along! REGISTERING FOR THIS...
Oct 15, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, Interviews, Video
Deborah Henson-Conant & Hip Harp Academy Present: “JUNG at HARP” With Kathleen Wiley & Deborah Henson-ConantA YouTube series about music, Jungian Psychoanalysis & the Strings of Passion – Want to join us live? We usually film the...
Oct 9, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning HHT Student Projects, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy
I love sharing the amazing work of Hip Harp Academy students. In each class we follow a process of learning a structure, the skills that go with it, and then applying it to a project that you can actually use – like recording a video to celebrate a friend’s...
