The Secret to Placing Faster (And Playing Faster!)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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If you have trouble getting your fingers placed fast enough to stay in time, this video is for you! As I always say, the hardest part of playing the harp is getting to the strings. So in this video, I show you a few quick exercises you can apply to any song to practice GETTING to the strings much faster!
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Love it. Definitely something I need to work on.
Thank you for this. I’ve been having trouble placing after playing. Can I ask what make is your harp? It sounds very bright yet mellow.
I hope you found this video helpful! This harp is an early Fisher harp; he doesn't make this kind anymore but his Eirann model has a beautiful sound!
Thank you, I'll be working on this. I do it automatically for some shapes, but I just noticed that it's tough getting into a proper ready position with 1-5-8s. It feels like I need a lot of tension to stretch my fingers into that shape, so when I'm playing at speed I find I end up rooting my 2nd finger on 5 and then grabbing the other strings as needed, and it feels messy and slow and I worry I'm stuck in a bad habit. Do you have any tips for those 1-5-8s or even bigger stretches?
Good question... the first thing I would be curious about is if there's any way to change the way you hold your hand for large chords to see if some tension can be eliminated. Everyone's hands are different so I can't know without seeing it, but sometimes turning the palm a bit flatter and the thumb a bit lower (I know, not what you usually hear haha) it can be more comfortable.
Aside from that, I think that even if you can't get your entire hand in the full shape, still opening all the fingers so that they're nearby where they need to place will still help you get there faster even if you can't place them all at exactly the same time.
Great question though, that might be a good topic for a future video!
@@SamanthaBallardHarpStudio Lower thumb!! 🙀Haha but right, that makes a lot of sense. The stretch feels so big that I didn't even really consider that I could change my hand shape, but I'm seeing I have more wiggle room there than I thought. Thank you soo much, I will experiment.