Key Techniques for Harp Ref: SM0470 |
Contents 1-3 Basic skills : damping and placing 4-7 Thumb choke 8-11 Short plait 12-13 Break 14 Thumb slide 17 Study : The Gentle Fall of Rain 18-20 Practising gestures with both hands 21 Study : Both Hands Now 22-25 Half scratch 26-28 Forked Choke 29-30 Sliding the 4th finger 31 Study : Magnus the Elk (strathspey) 32 Back hop 33 Tune: Humpty Dumptys Reel 34 32 dirrum 35-42 Bees plait 43 Study :The Beekeepers Reel 44 Tune : Off the Wall (reel) 45-46 Little finger plait 47 Great plait 48 Study : Oldshoremore (slow air) 49-50 Beat 51 Study: Harp Beat 52-53 Four finger plait 43b Study : The Beekeepers Reel part B 54-59 Double choke 60-63 Double plait 64 Back of the nail 65-66 Finger Fling 67-70 Thumb wrinkle 71 Finger shake 72-74 Exercises : Decorated Scales 75 Single Scratch 76-77 Double Scratch 78 Leap ?, Untitled 79 Study : The Leap Year 80-81 Use of compound gestures when ornamenting traditional music 82 Some piping-style decorations 83-84 The coupled hands approach Tunes: 85 Honey on my Porridge (march) wire arr. & gut arr . 86 The Rhymers March wire/bray arr. & gut arr. 87-96 The Lights of Cluanie 97-98 Composite decorations & two-handed variations Tunes 99 Thug mi gaol don fhear bhan 100 Cumha h-Irteach Sources for the techniques & further study |