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“STRUCTURE IS FREEDOM” Kickstart Classes

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This opening Celebration of the “Structure is Freedom” Quarter at Hip Harp Academy was a play-along webinar,
where you can learn how to turn any simple tune into a spontaneous arrangement with freedom and fun.

Hip Harp Academy offers a FULL-Level year-long program to develop your repertoire and improvisation skills. It teaches you how to improvise on the fly, how to take any simple melody and create a full arrangement of it, or ‘open it up’ for therapeutic playing. And in this Open House Orientation, you’ll have a tour inside the Academy!

“Hip Harp Toolkit” teaches you to create spontaneous, improvised arrangements by applying two powerful dimensions of creative structure – the 5-Part Arrangement Form and the use of ROLES – to turn any simple melody into an expandable arrangement at any technical level. If you want to build repertoire FAST, this intro covers the main points you need to know!

“Jazz for Harps” covers the 4 Quadrants of Jazz Improv: Harmony, Rhythm, Roadmaps, and Melodic Improvisation. Jazz for Harps helps you improvise and enrich the harmony of any tune you play in every style of music – from jazz to folk to meditation music. This intro will help you learn the basics of how jazz works for harps.

This month’s Harp Time Live EXTENDED with an intro to Advanced Modulating Warmups for lever harp will give you CONFIDENCE to modulate to any key, FEARLESSLY face your levers, and NEVER be CONFUSED by KEY SIGNATURES again! Warm up your fingers and your mind with this special Composer’s Breakdown of the class.