I finally created my own chart so other harpists can learn from my utter confusion.
Well … here’s that chart – and if you want it – don’t try to print it from this page – a worksheet, a playsheet, that outlines everything I wish I’d known when I started playing jazz on the harp: a list of about 75 standard tunes, their standard keys, their standard styles (Latin, Swing, Waltz), which ones are good starter-tunes, which are tasty challenges and which ones are really not worth it unless you’re Park Stickney (the harp world’s fastest jazz pedal shifter).
And now that I work with so many lever-harp players around the world through my online courses, I recently added some additional notes to show which ones are good choices to start with on the Lever harp.
Check out this free printable list of great jazz tunes playable on the #harp. Download yours here Share on XSo for all you you harpists who ask me where to start with jazz – download this and start with the simpler ones!
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Click here for DHC’s Jazz-Harp Starter-List
p.s. special thanks to Brenda & Sabine at JazzHarp.org who inspired me to post this list for their monthly ezine readers!
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