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Description
Learn proven strategies for putting hands together, with personalised feedback to help you apply them—so you can approach new pieces with clarity and confidence.
Late-beginner onwards
This workshop is perfect if you have some familiarity with basic playing technique but struggle with coordinating both hands. If you’ve tried before and felt stuck, this session will give you the tools to move forward with confidence!
All harps welcome!
No levers/pedals required*
*Note: most examples demonstrating strategies will be in C major and G major.
- A recording of an online workshop (75 mins) led by harp teacher, Zuzanna
- Access to the replay for 1 year.
- Checklist “Stories to Tell Our Hands”
Sarah –
As a beginner harp player, one of the trickiest challenges has been learning how to make my hands work together. In her Making Hands Work Together workshop, Zuzanna breaks this down with such clarity and practicality. She explains the importance of hand placement (“place quickly, play slowly”) and why placement can be difficult, for example, due to the lack of rhythm when placing and also losing visual cues.
After laying this foundation, Zuzanna shares thoughtful, concrete strategies to help our fingers truly learn where to go. When Zuzanna explained the concept of following our thumb, it gave me a whole new way to think about finger placement. And when I’m able to place my fingers more quickly, then playing the harp becomes easier.
Zuzanna has clearly put a lot of thought into her teaching. Her approach is both kind and intelligent. And she communicates her ideas in a way that really helps workshop participants to learn more about this difficult skill of coordinating our hands, which eventually helps us to become better at playing the harp.
Françoise –
I really appreciated the workshop. There were so many helpful tips, and even though I am fluent in reading sheet music from my years of piano, I still learned a lot. I took notes and will definitely keep many of Zuzanna’s suggestions in mind, especially the placing, playing, stop, placing sequence. I have already started sharing some of what I learned with a friend who is new to the harp. It was a generous and inspiring class.