A fantastic collection of 11 pieces written especially for the Irish- or Concertharp by Dutch harpist Rosetty. Various different styles and genres are featured here from Samba to Folk and Reggae to Romantic pieces. The harp part in each case has been kept relatively simple to enable the student to focus on the rhythms and syncopation of each style. An accompanying CD contains both demonstration tracks with the full harp solo to hear how each piece should sound and a version with accompaniment only for performance and practice.

This book has been specially designed to help harpists to improve their basic skills and develop their ability to improvise. Berklee Harp covers the basic chords chord symbols and harmonic progressions used in a wide range of music including jazz folk and other styles. Whether you play pedal or lever Harp Berklee Harp will help you to explore your personal musicianship and creativity. You will learn techniques for soloing and for accompanying yourself or others. The harmony exercises will help you to master chord progressions in several grooves practice modulating freely and without fear and improve your chord recognitionand smooth voice leading. The price of this book includes access to accompanying audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online. These tracks include demonstrations and play-alongs. A multi-functional audio player Playback is also included. Playback allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

'In twenty years of playing the Harp I???ve learned many techniques that can take you beyond predictability and into the realm of the unexpected and exciting. These skills can be applied to many playing styles and musicalmoods helping you make your music entertaining and meaningful while playing smoothly and expressively quickly or slowly with a sound that is uniquely yours.In this DVD you???ll find these straightforward techniquesexplained in precise detail so you can apply them to your own playing right away whether you???re an intermediate or advanced player. Enjoy!' - Laurie Riley

The Autoharp Owner's Manual covers autoharp maintenance conversions tuning and string schedules (both diatonic and chromatic) building your own instrument playing techniques evaluating instruments chord bar setups amplification history and much more. Each subject is addressed by a current premier musician/builder. The articles in this book have been taken from past issues of Autoharp Quarterly and have been updated to address currentinnovations problems and instruments. It is a 'must have' for every autoharp player.