START HARP IMMERSION – ‘Spring Tide of Hope’ and ‘Growing for the Future’

Description

A START HARP IMMERSION

In this Immersion we will focus on two original contrasting pieces, one is ‘Spring Tide of Hope’ a piece that flows and swells like a high tide coming in and then gently fades away, it has proved very popular in workshops with my Dynamic Harps students. The second is a piece is called ‘Growing for the Future’ and it a tune I have written ready to premier at the 9th National Botanic Garden of Wales family harp weekend this June. It is named after their ‘Growing the Future’ project that has already involved over 5000 people being trained in planting, sowing and growing. I like to think there are lots of crossovers here for START HARP where we are planting, sowing and growing more harpists for the future! Both pieces can be played as a solo or in a group.

Online short Course 

The course will initially be delivered live on Saturday 23rd March 2PM – 4PM GMT . The session will include a short break for fingers and brains around half-way through! After the live event you will receive a link to the Ruzuku online classroom which will include approximately 90 minutes of video training, along with some explanatory text and sheet music downloads for you to print out and keep. You will be able to access for 12 months after the IMMERSION. It is fun to attend live but do not worry if you cannot make it, you will be able to access all the materials via the online classroom afterwards.

In addition to the two focus pieces (one delivered ‘by ear’ and the other via sheet music), we will work on a warm up designed to really help develop and even and controlled tone in your playing,  we also look at the extended technique usually referred to as ‘xylophonic effect’ on harp and how you can create this sound with your finger tips but also using bluetac! This course is similar to one week of the START HARP 12 week intensive online courses for beginner to intermediate harpists (Level 1, 2 and 3). Full details on www.StartHarp.com.

“Great immersion! As usual, Shelley went above and beyond.” Rebecca Blakeney referring to last IMMERSION (START HARP Level 1, 2 and 3 graduate!)

Following the same ethos and delivery style as the main 3 START HARP 12 week courses, we look at playing from sheet music, improvising and playing by ear all with an underlying focus on a good strong playing technique.

This course is aimed at beginner to early intermediate level harpists. As long as you can read treble and bass clef at least a little bit and can play with all four fingers (and turn) you will be ready to take this course. Simplification and extension ideas are offered as we go along so lots to keep everyone busy!

You will have 12 months access to these videos and materials. It is rather like one week of a START HARP 12 week course!

When you sign up you will automatically receive a confirmation on email and then within 48 hours you will be sent a link to the online classroom. If you are signing up before the live session you will receive the meeting link by Midnight GMT on Friday 22nd March. If you do not receive any details when excepted  please check your spam/junk file and if it is not hiding there email me on info@harpwales.com.

In this short course we work on:

• A warm up designed to work on even flow and good tone control.
• Look at exercises related to the main pieces to focus in on tricky sections (Everyday Exercises).
• Look at two different techniques for playing with ‘xylophonic effect’ on your harp
• Learn the tune from sheet music ‘Growing for the Future’
• Look at some ‘free’ improvisation ideas that can be used to extend the music.
• We learn the main features of ‘A Spring Tide of Hope’ by ear and I will also share the sheet music of the full piece with you.

Full price START HARP IMMERSION is £35. For all students currently paid up members for START HARP SPRING TERM 2019 there is a BOGOF offer for this and the following session due to take place on the 7th April 2019. So if you sign up at full price for one I will send you a link to the other for FREE! 

For everyone else, if you sign up before the live class goes out there is a £10 discount available, just use SH10 at the checkout! 

Here are some comments from students who have attended previous IMMERSION:

• Insider info…..don’t miss it but prepare yourself to be bombarded with info in the nicest possible way??? 
• Don’t miss it! And don’t be surprised if you feel overwhelmed if you do it live. Shelley basically fits a full week of Start Harp into 2 hours, so it’s a lot to take in live — but then you can go back and work with the videos as you’re already used to doing in Start Harp. Or you can miss the live bit and just do the videos afterward. I did my best learning of Spiralling Shoots after the fact, when my brain was quiet and I could hear myself think and appreciate what I was playing.
•  I couldn’t join live so learnt it from the recordings, which are great.
• I was glad to be on the live presentation, although it was early in the morning. However, due to more pressing priorities, I tabled my practice efforts for a future time—hopefully, in September. That is a benefit of the Immersion structure. Sign up for the class and add to your repertoire when you are ready.
• I also saw it in the replay. It’s great to be able to go over everything slowly…