
Advance your jew's harp skills with this advanced course for players with prior experience, covering technique, instrument selection, and terminology.
Explore breath-controlled plucking on the jew's harp, shaping dynamics, rhythm, and sustain with diaphragm-driven vibrato, varied breath speed and intensity, and expressive timing.
Explore advanced muting and tapping techniques on the Jews harp by muting with the lips against the teeth, sliding between mouth positions, and tapping the frame for percussive notes.
Explore adding the voice to the jews harp, including humming, spoken rhythms, and vocal patterns, to create harmonics, beat frequencies, and expressive percussive contrasts in multiple keys.
Explore advanced tongue patterns for the Jews harp, blending rhythmic tapping and breath control to create percussive, high-harmonic tones across varied patterns.
Master the advanced trilling technique by lifting the tongue to the palate and forcing air through, then practice rapid tap patterns and varying lengths for expressive sound.
Explore animal sounds in jews harp playing, from birdsong achieved with throat harmonics and plucking to a galloping horse via lip muting, tongue shaping, and breath-controlled variations.
Push your comfort zone by exploring boundary-pushing jew's harp techniques, blending influences from different cultures, and mastering lip-assisted sustain, breath control, and throat and tongue harmonics.
Explore kubing and plucked bamboo styles, including carved bamboo designs that flex with weight on one end and outward plucking. Learn about sounds, short sustain, and throat and tongue harmonics.
Explore rarer bamboo harps from China, note how tuning them differently enables playing in sets of two to four, and create pleasing chordal patterns and varied textures.
Explore three-note harps and melodies, compare Chinese multi-bladed and rolled brass harps, learn tuning to different keys, and discover their magical, quiet sound for breath-driven performance.
Explore two-blade Jew's harp setups, tunings, and patterns of plucking to unlock throat harmonics and breathe-driven rhythms. Learn hand positioning, breath emphasis, and how to vary notes for richer sounds.
The Jews harp could be for you!
Also known as the jaw harp / mouth harp these small instruments are pretty easy to pick up and play. This course will assume a fair amount of previous experience, whether you took my basic course or already have some skills.
You will also need an instrument - and as we will be learning more advanced skills a 'Snoopy' harp or similar just will not make the grade. You'll need a quality instrument - I will tell you where you can find them and what to look for.
The lectures will take you through easy to understand exercises so you can quickly improve your skills with these great little instruments.
We'll start off checking that you have the skills to progress and then get on with it!
We will be learning all those crazy tricks and effects you've maybe seen on YouTube but will also be learning how to play in various styles and on several different sorts of instrument, including some pretty rare ones.
Basically this course should provide all the inspiration and tuition all you need do is provide yourself and a willingness to learn!
What are you waiting for?
Jonny Cope