Projects Spotlights #3 – Winter 2021 – Hip Harp Academy
What’s is like to dare to learn a whole new way to play music? To let go of the notes on the page and arrange and improvise, right in the moment – regardless of your technical level – regardless of how long you’ve been playing an instrument...
Projects Spotlights #2 – Winter 2021 – Hip Harp Academy
What if you decided to explore a new way of playing music, where you learned the basic building blocks of music itself, and then you ‘built’ a new piece every time you played? That’s what members of “Hip Harp Academy” learn to do –...
Holiday Greetings from Hip Harp Academy Members
Once upon a time, during one of the severe pandemics in the 21st century, when all people were forced to stay at home and could not meet and play music together … … an international community of DARING harp players met each week in a Virtual Academy to...
Strings of Passion 2021 Projects
Once upon a time, during one of the severe pandemics in the 21st century, when all people were forced to stay at home and could not meet and play music together … … an international community of DARING harp players met each week in a Virtual Academy to...
Charlene Elderkin’s New “Harp to Heart” Show
Early this year, Charlene Elderkin came to a Hip Harp Academy chat and said she had committed to putting on an outdoor concert in Viroqua, Wisconsin, using everything she’d learned in Hip Harp Academy. Not just a solo concert, but a concert with friends –...
Holistic Harp Harmony (or … How I Learned – and Teach – Music Theory on the Harp)
The doors are NOW OPEN for “Hands on Harmony” – my foundational class for harpists where you learn the basics of harmony with your HANDS (and your mind, of course) – at your own pace! “Hands on Harmony” is program for harpists that...
How I Learned that Structure is Freedom
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...
10 Reasons “HOLIDAY Lead Sheet Bootcamp” ROCKS! (For Harp Players)
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 –...
The Architecture of Music Learning: One Song: The Nightingale
I’m working on a new kind of learning: taking ONE SONG and breaking it down, teaching it to people the way I actually SEE it: architectural blocks of harmony and shapes of melody. It’s an experiment I thought would take a couple weeks – but now it’s...
