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Books and Methods
for Lever harp
Today I will answer a question that sent me from Quebec ....
Thanks a lot , young lady from Quebec.....
She asked me as a question, what are the books, methods, collections, the most useful when learning the harp at home ...
I have selected a number of them, which I use every day ...
My students always had the same requests ...
With my experience, I was always asked about the same things ...
If I want to work side by side, in addition to courses, what can I use?
There are methods you will see, which are very well known in the world of the classic harp ...
This is a little base to learn and I present other books with little tricks ...
On the technical level, the method, the most sold in the world is the "Grossi"
I'll show you a few pages while talking.
It is an Italian method, and in France, teachers in the conservatory use it very often as a technical basis.
And to make the hands work, because these are technical exercises, which allow to work the posture of the hands,
To work fingering, to work agility,
I wanted to take advantage of it to thank my classical teacher mentor , Yseult de maria,
It's a very interesting book, it's in italian...
But it's not a problem because the goal is to follow the exercises and concentrate on the music.
There are fingers at the beginning of each exercise.
I made a video on the first few pages of this method with almost an hour of video and ideas to work, go see the link!
If you want to have a technical basis, this is the Bible!
The other two books that I propose, these are suggestions because they seem interresting to learn ...
I present the book of Deborah Friou, which is a collection of exercises ...
i's a very interesting book, because, you can find some exercices and tunes...
For example, you have an arpeggio exercice... and work in left hand to right hand...
or down arpeggio "vibes"...
I find that this method is quite interesting at the exercise level,
If you're looking for another book, off "Grossi" method, here's another example ...
To work agility, another book that seems to me interesting,
I'm talking about this because today I have a video that talks about small injuries that can be done on the fingers ...
And I am often asked the question, as I can do to work my hands ....
I present to you the collection of Maïte Etcheverry, which has existed for some time and which is called:
Exercise volume 2: agility, for pedal harp but also celtic ...
I specify that my selection of book of the day are suitable for the Celtic harp, even the "grossi" method ...
There is a more specific part for the pedal harp, but this is only a small part ...
But I repeat that the book that I represent you are for lever harp because it is the theme of my youtube channel!
This is the same principle as the previous book, you have exercises, and that there are 3 books with different themes like the first is about apergios, the second is about agility and the third is scales ...
It is a book closer to the method "grossi",
This notebook completes well the method grossi, tell me in the comments, what you think ...
I think it's important to inter act, and the videos that I propose are places of sharing and comments ...
There is a lot of method for the Celtic harp ..
For years, I seek a method of harp adapted to my vision,
I needed a common thread. For a certain period, I had to create a program between pieces and exercises that I invented ...
And I was not satisfied with my program, especially for children, and in relation to their hands ...
Because as a pedagogue, I feel that you have to be very careful when children learn the Celtic harp.
I currently have just under a dozen children and I see with Skype, so from a distance ...
And in order to have a "link's book " with the parents and that we can work in symbiosis,
During courses that last 30 mn ...
I found a great harp method, I think if it does not exist, I would have invented it, but I would have done much less good than that ...
this method name's "The magic harp and the Pixies" by Elisabeth Cherquefosse
The harpist who designed this collection,
It's in the Anne Ricquebourg collection, which I met, a long time ago
Elisabeth at all included and I give you my opinion there ...
Because when you're a child and you learn the harp, it's not necessarily fun to learn classical pieces.
Unless parents like classical music and listen to this kind of music often, sonon is not really receptive ...
I think this method is great because it is in two parts, I explain ...
The first part is technical, in the form of fun little pieces ...
And in the second part, there are pieces that uses what one has learned with the technical exercises ..
Like for example this piece that has much success with my students ...
This is a great method too because there is a CD that allows listening to the songs.
it's a great idea...
And what is fun for children, these are the illustrations with the pixies ..
this cover is superb !
the illustrator artist are Jean-pierre and Francisco Lopez
hey buddy ! well done !
It is true that as lever harpist, I feel the classic technique of the author ...
But there is also great benevolence and also not to force children to play in certain themes only
But we find different themes at the level of the songs ..
Popular songs, some classical , traditional world ..
I also use this method for adults
I think it's important to have a good technical basis, and it is not enough to learn pieces as they are pretty ..
This book is practical to learn the basics ...
But then, learn from the tunes, can help understand their story, how they were composed and thus learn a technique ..
this one, I love it !
Next video, soon!
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