Sep 11, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Uncategorized |
When I created my online school for harp players, “Hip Harp Academy,” I knew that the year-long curriculum in improv, arrangement and creative expression was not for beginners. “Advanced Beginners” yes — and all the way up to...
Aug 29, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
My new “Jazz for Harps” summer program is in its final weeks and the students have just submitted their “Half-Baked” projects and I’ve shared my feedback with them. When one student took notes on every one of my feedback videos, the...
Apr 13, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Harping & Harpists, Jazz Harp |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jun. 18, 2013 and updated in 2018 I recently had a mastermind session with music therapist, coach & harpist Trista Hill about my online program Blues Harp-Style, a 6-Week program on the Blues specifically for harp...
Mar 29, 2018 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses |
You know those old audio-tapes that claim they can teach you a new language in your sleep? That kind of learning is called hypnopedia and, according to Wikipedia, nobody knows whether it works or not. What I DO know as a performing musician and a musical trainer, is...
Jan 24, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy |
What you get when you join Hip Harp Academy More than 10 courses to develop your improv, arrangement and performance skills. Learn from Grammy-nominated master harpist and teacher Deborah Henson-Conant in guided lessons and live online play-along Q&A sessions....
Nov 17, 2017 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Hip Harp Academy |
On Monday Nov. 20 at 7:30PM EST, I’ll be testing out a new musical toy on Facebook LIVE: a multi-layered Calypso loop you can download as an MP3 and play along with. Check it out http://bit.ly/CalypsoLoop1 If you play the harp ~ join me on Facebook Live Mon....
Nov 1, 2017 | Hip Harp Academy
I’ve just finished uploading the first round of “Homework Feedback” videos for the students in my fall course at Hip Harp Academy- where I’m guiding over 100 harp players through the basics of impromptu arranging and the foundation improv....
Oct 7, 2017 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity |
Right now, students in my “Baroque Flamenco Beyond the Page” class are about to submit their Final (Beginning) Projects. I call them “Final (Beginning)” projects because I like students to realize that they’re not the end of their...
Sep 20, 2017 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses, [HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit Class |
I was standing in my studio a couple years ago with my then-media-maven, Jeila, telling her about the new online course I was creating, “Hip Harp Toolkit” – and she asked, “Where did you learn to arrange for harp and what made you decide to...
Aug 4, 2017 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Current Events |
I’ve just started the process of editing the first level of “Hip Harp Academy” my year-long pre-jazz program for harp players. That means that Mackenzie, my school administrator and I, are going back through content of the 10+ programs that make up the...
