Jan 22, 2022 | 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...
Jan 22, 2022 | 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 –...
Dec 24, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
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...
Sep 25, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
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...
Sep 22, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
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 –...
Jun 19, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Hip Harp Academy |
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...
Apr 8, 2021 | Baroque Flamenco, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Uncategorized |
Have you ever longed to express a romantic part of yourself, like the heroine in a book or a movie — but you just didn’t have what you needed? You didn’t have the skills, or the gear, or the time … or you just didn’t know where to start...
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...
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 –...
May 23, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, 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...
