Harp Learning Library
Explore complete harp lessons, workshop replays, chord charts, and musical ideas—each chosen to give you something useful to try at the harp today.
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Complete lessons, workshop replays, play-alongs, chord charts, and practical musical ideas to explore at your own harp.
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Finding Light in the Tension
Hear how C major and E minor create the color of C major 7, then explore the idea at your own harp.
Open lesson
Bisbigliando — Harp Whispering
Create a gentle two-hand whispering texture and explore a roaming right-thumb practice idea.
Open lessonExplore color, freedom, and musical possibility
A Journey Through the Modes — Part I
Explore all seven main modes, with practical harp exercises, improvisation ideas, and a deeper focus on Dorian and Lydian.
Open workshop
A Journey Through the Modes — Part II
Explore Lydian color, the major seventh, and ways to build spacious, meditative sound at the harp.
Open workshop
The Magical Major 7th
Hear and play with the spacious color of the major seventh in a guided harp meditation.
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Question & Answer Improvisation
Practice a Middle Eastern call-and-response idea and shape a musical conversation at the harp.
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Harmonic Minor Harp Meditation
Play along in the harmonic minor scale with a sustained Indian tanpura drone.
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Aeolian Mode Meditation
Begin an improvisation in the Aeolian mode with a simple, easy-to-follow chord chart.
Open lesson & chord chartLearn through melody and movement
Na Rei Na Rei / Ani L'Dodi
Follow the sung solfege, harp-string close-up, chord chart, and lead sheet together—or use only the tools that help you learn.
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The Galilee Sea — Continued
Learn the left and right hands together, then explore the improvisational ending.
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Scarborough Fair for Beginners — Part 1
Begin learning Scarborough Fair step by step in this gentle lesson for newer harp players.
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Avinu Malkeinu
Learn the melody and accompaniment through a complete, step-by-step harp workshop.
Open workshop
Left & Right Hand Coordination
Practice singing the musical line, bringing both hands together, and exploring double time.
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Transpose a Harp Arrangement Without Fear
Use Pitchu Li to explore a practical, musical way to move a harp arrangement into a new key.
Open lessonHarp Sound, Amplification & Effects
Harp Amplification & Effects
Explore practical ways to capture, amplify, record, and transform the sound of the harp.
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How to Use a Looper with Harp
Learn how to build a musical loop, enter and leave cleanly, recover from a layer that does not work, and play freely above the finished texture.
Open lessonCare for your harp and build practical confidence
How to Tie a Harp String Knot
Learn a quick, practical method for tying a secure knot when replacing a harp string.
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How to Pre-Stretch a New Harp String
Help a newly replaced harp string settle sooner so it stays in tune across more than one song.
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