[HTL-97] Holiday Harp Time Live
Start with Harps Tuned in Eb
[HTL-97-221215 – HOLIDAY HARP TIME LIVE #97 – Thu. Dec 15, 2022]
Comments from This Session of Harp Time Live
Today we are working on Video Greeting Cards
The How-to Process DHC takes us through what you need to do to create your own Video Holiday Greeting Card and gave a PDF with the steps used to create this easy fund Holiday Card.
Link for Excerpt from “Video Greeting Card” Class PDF
If your harp is tuned to Eb it’s best for this Put your D & G levers up.
You can now do Glissandos up and down the harp
You can put an Ab in the bass and Gliss with your [RH]
Change to an F in the bass and still gliss with your [RH]
Add a short snippet of melody in your left hand
Eb, F, Eb, C
Eb, F, Eb, C
Continue to gliss with your right hand
Add another melody snippet:
CCC CCC C Eb Ab Bb C Continue to Gliss with your Right Hand
Special Facebook Live this Saturday at 2:00 pm EST
It will be on Harpists Who Dare Facebook page.
You can also register for stand alone Academy Classes at a discount price -including Video Greeting Cards Click the link below, https://www.hipharp.com/specials
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.
- To start the replay, just look for the little arrow in the lower left-hand corner of the videos.
- To watch in full-screen look in the lower RH corner of the video for the ‘four expanding arrows’ icon.
- Note that you can speed up or slow down the video with the speed controls.
- To turn on Closed Captioning click on the box in the lower RH corner with the [CC]
The Chat Feed (click to open)
15:30:45 From (Kristen) to Everyone:
soumds fine
15:36:29 From Tammy H to Everyone:
Harp tuned to Eb lift your D & G Levers
15:45:49 From Tammy H to Everyone:
[LH] Eb, F, Eb, C glissing with [RH]
15:46:58 From Jane in Finland to Everyone:
never realised how many Christmas tunes begin pentatonicly
15:53:12 From Faye F to Everyone:
set the mood before a tune
15:53:30 From Christine from NC to Everyone:
A mash up ….also don’t have to know/remember the entire tune.
15:53:37 From Stacie Link to Everyone:
You can sing with this tuning when you don’t have all the notes
15:53:55 From Faye F to Everyone:
could set just higher levers and then pause and lower the high octave?
15:54:24 From Ruth Thomson to Everyone:
Drowning in all this harp sound, you can still HEAR the exciting chord change
15:54:33 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone:
found I could play/hint at jingle all the way on C, Eflat, Aflat, Bflat, C while playing the jingle bell strumming.
15:54:38 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
This just solved my I don’t know where to find the time for how and when to make my Christmas chard potpourri
15:54:52 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
problem
15:54:54 From Cherrie Mooney to Everyone:
It’s easier to only play parts of songs with the gliss and it sounds great.
15:56:08 From Faye F to Everyone:
thanks Melinda!!!
15:57:14 From Lesley Macleod to Everyone:
we have a postal workers strike here in the uk so this will enable me to send greetings to my far flung family!
15:59:32 From Deborah Henson-Conant to Everyone:
START VIDEO
15:59:36 From Deborah Henson-Conant to Everyone:
SMILE AT THE CAMERA
15:59:40 From Deborah Henson-Conant to Everyone:
PLAY A FLOURISH
15:59:52 From Deborah Henson-Conant to Everyone:
SPEAK A MESSSAGE OF LOVE TO A SINGLE PERSON
15:59:55 From Deborah Henson-Conant to Everyone:
PLAY A TUNE
16:00:00 From Deborah Henson-Conant to Everyone:
SPEAK A FAREWELL
16:00:02 From Deborah Henson-Conant to Everyone:
STOP THE VIDEO
16:05:57 From Nancy C to Everyone:
I struggle with changing the levers, good to know can be simplified.
16:06:05 From Anne Horton to Everyone:
Short and sweet is great!
16:06:27 From Tammy H to Everyone:
Link to Hip Harp Academy Class Specials https://www.hipharp.com/specials
16:07:33 From Lesley Macleod to Everyone:
The more times you do this ,the less inhibited you get and the more natural it feels !
16:08:00 From Cherie Maffey to Everyone:
The gliss is starting to sound better
16:09:35 From Nancy C to Everyone:
I love to do harmonics even though harmonics are dicey.
16:09:51 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
Just do the middle g down and you can play I wish you a merry Xmas, Solent Night and Jingle Bells al in 1 go.
16:09:58 From Cherrie Mooney to Everyone:
A personal and easy way to connect, with a great outcome.
16:10:29 From Anne Horton to Everyone:
The more you think about the other person (on the other side of the camera) and the less you think about yourself, the better
16:24:12 From Bonnie Berk to Everyone:
Doing the whole card in E flat without the penatonic scale sounds good too. easier to play the songs for me.
16:28:31 From Cherrie Mooney to Everyone:
I did this last year and it had a huge impact. Fun!
16:29:22 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
There’s not a problem that can’t be solved.
16:29:34 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone:
Loved the different glisses….and can now play them with the flats, lol!
16:29:58 From Nancy C to Everyone:
The video card sent to me in 2i0i21 was. Sos beautiful.
16:30:02 From Stacie Link to Everyone:
I didn’t really think about adding festive touches to the harp, so that was a new idea.
16:30:16 From Lesley Macleod to Everyone:
I learned it can be easy and so much fun !
16:30:22 From Anne Horton to Everyone:
We may feel like we are doing “nothing special” or “nothing fancy” but we shouldn’t diminish the impact that something so simple can have when you are doing it form the heart
16:30:22 From nancy to Everyone:
2 year old MILES is a big fan!
16:30:52 From Tara to Everyone:
I need to keep reminding myself that short and simple can be very effective and heartfelt.
16:31:04 From Stacie Link to Everyone:
This has inspired me to send a music message to a friend whose mother has just passed. Thank you
16:31:48 From Joan Davidson to Everyone:
So simple. We can all do it with little stress.
16:31:59 From Faye F to Everyone:
thanks. this was great and I always learn something new that’s useful with your videos and classes.
16:32:41 From Tammy H to Everyone:
Harpists Who Dare Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/hipharp
16:35:23 From mary manitoba, canada to Everyone:
im in another meeting too
16:42:11 From Tara to Everyone:
Thank you! Fun, as always.
Joke Verdoold wrote out the snippet for the 10/17/22 Harp Time Live and shared it with us. Click this link to download Joke’s notation of the Calypso rhythm.
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