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🌟 Harp Harmony Hacks (LEVEL 1)

FULL PRICE £245 

A Self-Led Deep Dive into Harmony for Harpists

A complete, confidence-building journey into harmony, theory, and creative musicianship — designed just for harpists.

Whether you’re longing to understand what’s really happening inside the music you play, or you want to be able to create your own arrangements, improvise with confidence, or read music more fluently, Harp Harmony Hacks LEVEL 1 gives you the solid, practical foundation you’ve been searching for.

This self-led course is a rich, structured, 6-week deep dive into the essential building blocks of harmony — always taught with the harp in mind, and always supported by Shelley’s trademark warmth, clarity and spiral-learning approach.

Progressive, practical learning that will transform how you understand and play your harp.

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🎶 Who is this course for?

✔ Harpists who want to understand why music works
✔ Players who want to make sense of scales, chords, intervals, and harmony
✔ Anyone who wants to read music more confidently
✔ Players who want to arrange, improvise, or interpret lead sheets
✔ Harpists craving a course that is clear, practical, and harp-focused
✔ Anyone who has ever thought, “I wish I understood what’s going on inside the music!”

If you’ve always wanted theory to finally click, this course is for you.

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🌈 What You Get

You receive instant access to:

🎥 6 full weeks of pre-recorded video lessons

Structured, clear, encouraging teaching taking you step-by-step through each topic.

📘 6 extensive written handouts (PDF)

Packed with explanations, diagrams, examples, exercises, and practical harp applications.

🎧 Aural training exercises

Learn to hear harmony — intervals, triads, 7th chords, cadences and more.

🎼 At-the-harp practical tasks

Everything you learn is applied directly to your harp so theory becomes music, not memorisation.

🌀 Spiral Learning Approach

You’re encouraged to take what you can each time you revisit the material — because harmony grows with you.

You have 12 months to explore everything at your own pace.

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🔍 What You Will Learn

A complete harmony foundation — from the ground up.

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WEEK 1 — The Building Blocks of Harmony

• What harmony really is (and why it matters)

• The major scale and how all 12 semitones create every scale, interval and chord

• How to work out any major key

• Understanding relative minors

• Intervals: diatonic vs. non-diatonic

• Recognising intervals in written music and by ear

• At the harp: transposing, improvising in minor, and building confidence

Your takeaway:
Harmony becomes less mysterious when you understand how everything grows from 12 little semitones.

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WEEK 2 — Exploring 16 Scale Types + The Modes

• What we mean by different scale types

• Finding the modes on your harp (in C and in any key)

• The order of the modes

• Definitions and demonstrations of 16 scale types

• Spotting scale types in written music

• Hearing scale types

• Composition and playing in alternative scale types

Your takeaway:
Hearing (and singing!) major vs. natural minor unlocks everything you’ll learn later — including chords, cadences and improvisation.

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WEEK 3 — Triads & the Foundations of Chords

• Major, minor, diminished & augmented triads

• Triads in C major and C minor

• Root, 1st and 2nd inversions

• Understanding voice leading (gently introduced)

• Identifying chords in written music

• Hearing the differences between triad qualities

• Harmonising simple melodies using diatonic triads

Your takeaway:
All harmony begins with stacked thirds — and once you can hear and recognise them, the musical world opens up.

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WEEK 4 — 7th Chords & First Steps in Substitution

• Diatonic 7th chords in major and minor

• Understanding 7th chord inversions

• Different types of 7th chords

• Missing-out notes when playing 7ths

• Recognising 7th chords on the page and by ear

• Introduction to chord substitution

• Improvising using diatonic 7th chords

• Adding interest to simple lead sheets

Your takeaway:
7th chords create richness and colour — and simple substitutions add immediate beauty and sophistication to your playing.

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WEEK 5 — Inversions, Slash Chords & Non-Harmony Tones

• What inversions do in music

• Slash chords vs. Roman numerals vs. figured bass

• How to notate inversions three different ways

• Drop-2 voicing

• Understanding non-harmony tones

• Using non-harmony tones in improvisation

• Adding triad and 7th extensions to melodic lines

Your takeaway:
This is where everything begins intertwining — your understanding of intervals, scales, triads, and 7ths all come together.

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WEEK 6 — Cadences & Common Chord Progressions

• Introduction to common cadences

• Voice leading inside cadences

• Spotting cadences in sheet music

• Hearing cadences by ear

• Using cadences to harmonise melodies

• Introduction to common progressions (I–IV–V, ii–V–I, etc.)

• Improvising using chord progressions

• Comparison tables of 7th chord names

Your takeaway:
Cadences are musical punctuation. They help you memorise quicker, read music better, improvise more freely, and understand how pieces “hang together”.

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💡 Why this course works

✔ Harp-focused — every concept is shown on the harp, not abstractly
✔ Practical + theoretical — learn the “why” and immediately try it yourself
✔ Warm, encouraging teaching — zero judgement, zero overwhelm
✔ Spiral learning — you revisit ideas as your understanding deepens
✔ A complete harmony foundation — perfect for anyone wanting clarity and confidence

This course gives harpists the tools to:

🎵 understand music deeply
🎵 play with more intention and expression
🎵 arrange with confidence
🎵 improvise with joy
🎵 spot patterns and progressions easily
🎵 strengthen ear training
🎵 enjoy reading music more

It is the missing link for so many harpists — and now it’s all here, step by step, in a gentle and beautiful learning sequence.

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🌟 In short…

Harp Harmony Hacks (LEVEL 1) is a rich, practical, beautifully structured journey that will transform how you hear, understand, and play harmony on your harp.

It’s not just theory.
It’s not just technique.
It’s not just ear training.

It’s the whole musical picture — presented clearly, creatively, and with deep compassion for the learning process.