[HTL-61] Video Valentine with a Bluesy Twist (210211)

Feb 11, 2021 | 2020, Hide the Newsfeed, HTL-Harp-Time-Live, Replay

In which we learn the BASICS of creating a Video Valentine with the Tunes “Love Me Tender” and “Those Were the Days, My Friend”.

[HTL-60] Video Valentine Basics (210204)

Feb 11, 2021 | 2020, Hide the Newsfeed, HTL-Harp-Time-Live, Replay

In which we learn the BASICS of creating a Video Valentine with the Tunes “Love Me Tender” and “Those Were the Days, My Friend”.

[HTL-59] You Are My Sunshine Video Valentine with a Vamp (210128)

Jan 31, 2021 | 2020, Hide the Newsfeed, HTL-Harp-Time-Live, Replay

In which we learn to create a video valenine that uses the tune “You Are My Sunshine” and a vamp.  

[HTL-58] Strings of Passion Applied to A Mixolydian Vamp (210121)

Jan 21, 2021 | 2020, Hide the Newsfeed, HTL-Harp-Time-Live, Replay

In which we start from two chords, spelled just below middle C:

GAD and FGC – and we start building out an arrangement, first adding a bass (just a G), then adding melodies, then creating a kind of musical form/game with a 4-Bar chorus and alternate sections where we play just bass, then just melody, then melody and accompaniment, then just melody and bass — and all along, we’re going through the 7 strings of passion  (Impulse, Structure, Character, Roles, Practice(s), Deconstruction & Lift Off) to apply the principles to what we’re playing.

[HTL-38] Shaping & Timing Glisses with Shifting Basslines (200827)

Jan 20, 2021 | 2020, Hide the Newsfeed, HTL-Harp-Time-Live, Replay

In which we shape glisses – so they’re ‘timed’ to fit in one measure, or two, or four – and also change the bass note to change the harmonic reference.

[HTL-37] AGFE-SlapBass-Bassline-with-Blues-Melodic-Riffs (200820)

Jan 20, 2021 | 2020, Hide the Newsfeed, HTL-Harp-Time-Live, Replay

In which learn to play a slap-bass bassline of A-G-F-E. Then we ALTERNATE it with playing Blues-type riffs in this order – and in between each experiment, we played the bassline twice.

1. Pentatonic Scale (From top down: DCAGFD).

2. Bend the D to D#

3. Bend the D to D# with a G above it

4. Set D’s to D# and play D# E G

[HTL-36] Sing Amazing Grace in C with a Picking Pattern (200813)

Jan 20, 2021 | 2020, Hide the Newsfeed, HTL-Harp-Time-Live, Replay

In which learn a picking pattern (arpeggiated accompaniment pattern) and play Amazing Grace in the key of C.

[HTL-35] Scales & Pivots over a Harmonic Sequence (200806)

Jan 20, 2021 | 2020, Hide the Newsfeed, HTL-Harp-Time-Live, Replay

In which learn to create melodies ‘mechanically’ from scales and pivots, and then we build a harmonic sequence to support that melodic noodling. This ‘sequence’ is longer and more complex than just a vamp. It combines a vamp – the part that gets repeated – with a kind of ‘break’ 

Gsus (Intro)

||: C (EAD). F (ADG) :||  Am. Am/G.   F.   Dm  Gsus

[HTL-34] Looped Arpeggiated Vamp (200730)

Jan 20, 2021 | 2020, Hide the Newsfeed, HTL-Harp-Time-Live, Replay

In which we create a vamp from two arpeggiated chords. Each had a bass note, 3 notes in the RH and then the LH jumps up to play a note above the RH:

#1: LH:A   RH:DEA    LH: D (above)
#2: LH:A    RH:CDG   LH:B (above)
We looped this and then improvised melodically over it.

[HTL-33A] No-Wrong-Note Gliss (200715)

Jan 20, 2021 | 2020, Hide the Newsfeed, HTL-Harp-Time-Live, Replay

In which we learn a 2-Chord Bossa Nova progression: LH: F-C RH: A-C-E // LH: C-G RH: F#-Bb-E