Category: Lever changes

Ep. 306 – Should you look at the strings while playing?

In this episode I talk about how where we look can dramatically help us when doing fast jumps and movements, and also when and how it can helpful to practice playing without looking at the strings.

I mention my arrangement of Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring as having a good section to practice playing without having to look at the right hand. The sheet music is free and can be download here.

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Ep. 298 – How to get started with lever changes

If you have a lever harp, changing levers DURING a piece of music can be a bit scary if you’re not used to it – but it opens up a whole world of wonderful music! In this episode I suggest some ways you can get more comfortable with doing lever changes.

Make sure to check out these other related Harp Tuesday episodes.

And if you want some inspiration, here’s a playlist of beautiful music made possible via lever changes.

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Ep. 230 – Muffling and lever changes

A look at the technique I use to muffle a string before changing its lever.

I’m using as an example Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C major, which is a fantastic piece to practice lever changes and muffles. Lots of arrangements for lever harp exist, including in my book “Transcriptions for Lever Harp”.

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Ep 134 Adapting Tournier’s “Noel” for lever harp

A real-time look at adapting for lever harp the first of six “Noels” by Marcel Tournier. Tournier wrote these for pedal harp, and there’s a certain amount of modulation going on in this Noel. Still, having played through it a couple times I’m hopeful that I can adapt it for lever harp – join me for the journey and lets see if it works out! 🙂

Ep. 69 figuring out lever changes (Bach – Prelude No. 1)

In this episode of Harp Tuesday, I try to arranged Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C from the Well-Tempered Clavier for the lever harp.

The episode:

And you can watch me figure out the lever changes in real time:

I used a public domain setting of the piece from Mutopia

Here is a scan of the completed version with all my markings – download the images by right-clicking and selecting “save image as…”