Modulating from C Major to F Major
with 2516-2511 (The “Power Progression”)
Start with Harps Tuned in C
[HTL-72-210420 – HARP TIME LIVE #72 – Thu. Apr. 29, 2021]
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We modulated back and forth between the key of C Major and the key of G Major using the progression 2516-2511 (the “Power Progression” from the Harp Improv Challenge)
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16:40:57 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles : Will we have another field trip?
16:41:35 From Gail : I signed up for All Access and for Deborah’s Sunday Add-on. It will be SOooo… fun to have that extra day with our beloved DHC!
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17:01:31 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles : 1st degree: tonic
2nd degree: supertonic
3rd degree: mediant
4th degree: subdominant
5th degree: dominant
6th degree: submediant
7th degree: leading-tone
17:22:02 From Kathy DeAngelo : Cool vamps and rhythms
17:22:45 From Cherrie Mooney : Loved the 9ths
17:23:04 From Joke Verdoold : Going on and on and on, no matter mistakes, but able to find my way back again.
17:23:14 From Tara : This is getting easier, playing the ii-V-I-vi progression and modulating, both!
17:23:49 From Kathy Kelly : Got lost a few times but could come back to bass line in left hand ….
17:25:01 From Betty Herloski : Started in C, Bb down goes to key of F
17:25:57 From sarah : I like to play along. I liked to changed my shapes in the right hand. I was a bit frustrated, because I loved the rhythms you played. I didn’t now ,if I copied them well. I tried and will find it out sometime?
17:25:59 From Joke Verdoold : Thanks Deborah, enjoyed myself, but uning out, wish you all goodnight.
17:26:01 From cherie Mafey : Liked the shapes that could be used in another key. Finally realised that the right hand could be easier by putting F triad over the D & G .
17:26:41 From Joyce : I DONT THINK SHE STARTED IN C BECAUSE ABE LEVERS WERE NOT UP
17:29:01 From Heather F : I found that I was slow today to get “plugged in” so I dumped the right hand until I could get the left hand rhythm and stride chords organized I and working in my sleepy brain…..then the right hand was able to slip into the action and do some kind of crazy improv
17:29:17 From Cathy Hornby : I now know exactly what you meant by 2 1 5 6 – fab – lovely freeing pattern
17:29:42 From Cathy Hornby : Ooops – I mean 2 5 1 6
17:30:14 From Lawson : My harp only has a lever so I can’t change to a flat unless I turne it. I had a good time playing, though.
17:30:19 From Tovelah Hirsch : was very moving, and it keep me moving. Sounded so sweet. 2,5,1,6 was able to keep up, played until I was mesmerized! Thank You
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17:32:40 From Betty Herloski : You can leave the Bb out the chord
17:32:53 From sarah : i was trying to play in the C session. In the right hand p g flat nine, I guess (a flat), and the other time a G in the bass with f cord in the right, or a F in the bass with G cord, Is guess some G sus, I learning this new things, because off the academy
17:33:21 From Heather F : It is literally in ZILLIONS of tunes
17:33:57 From Heather F : 2516
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17:36:01 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/htlwdhc-harp-time-with-dhc-live-main-page/
17:36:01 From Nancy Cochran : 2-5-1
17:36:02 From Harmony : This is my first time here and I just had fun playing in the wrong key, noodling around!
17:36:03 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/htlwdhc-harp-time-with-dhc-live-main-page/
17:36:11 From charlottesmith-jones : This was super fun
17:36:11 From Susan B 831-238-6111’s iPhone (2) : Fav thing is hearing you sing
17:36:12 From Cathy Hornby : I’m learning to relax while playing!
17:36:22 From Sheila Jaffe : This finally got me to tune my harp to F which I’ve been meaning to do for along time. E flat is next!
17:36:23 From sarah : Playing together and experimenting
17:36:37 From Cherrie Mooney : I love different vamps
17:36:40 From Betty Herloski : Unlike the piano, you can just move your shapes and forget about white and black keys
17:36:51 From janeilmola : playing with chord inversions of 7th chords so that only 2 fingers (top or bottom) moved at a time in the accompaniment
17:37:10 From Gail : Thanks for the fun time! We sat back and relaxed and let our fingers flow.
17:37:37 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/htlwdhc-harp-time-with-dhc-live-main-page/
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17:37:39 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/htlwdhc-harp-time-with-dhc-live-main-page/
17:37:49 From Susan B 831-238-6111’s iPhone (2) : I’m dsylexic with numbers so hearing you sing the numbers helps my brain
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