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A Musicians Guide to Stretching

After loosing the movement in both my hands for 2 months due to the love for my instrument I have decided to write this book to help others prevent the situation I found myself in. After stretching I have managed to increase my flexibility again, allowing me to move and play my instrument once more. 
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Does your body persistently ache?  Playing an instrument is exercise and like a sport it requires you to stretch your body in order to prevent injury. This book offers explanation behind stretching and what stretches would most benefit each instrument.  

Practice Planner

This book is perfect for anyone learning or practising an instrument. It helps you learn to plan your practise and helps you keep a track of which practise techniques work for you. This notebook is for all ages, offering a place to plan your weekly practise, lesson notes and plan your stretches. Be inspired to practice by using your practise planner! 
Intended to last for a years worth of lessons this book is extremely good value for money! ​

Scales and Arpeggios

Combine the theory of music with playing. Inventive activities and ideas to help learn key signatures, scales, chords and arpeggios.

Warm Ups and Cool Downs

Looking for new ideas to experiment with your students. Looking for little activities that can help get a lesson started. Do you have students that need help with certain aspects of their playing that could be helped with a warm up? Then this is the book for you. 

Nurturing Creativity

Lets get some more harp music in the world! Improvising and composing is a fantastic skill to learn and mature. Teach your students to become confident and inventive. This books looks at introducing modes, arranging, transposition and composition into every lesson! ​

Teach the Harp

Do you want to become a harp teacher but not sure where to begin? This book is a great way to prepare for the world of music teaching. It includes a variety of practice ideas and teaching approaches, along with how to set yourself up and start your business. ​

Believing in Something Makes it Real

Performance anxiety is something 99% of musicians suffer from. But why?! This books offers ideas for how to help your students minimise the fear and maximise the fun! This beautiful book is designed for harpists, but is suitable and can be applied for all instrumental teachers. ​

Notation

Looking for new ideas to experiment with your students. Everyone learns differently and this book provides ideas to teach notation that directly relate to the harp. ​

From Seed to Flower

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Harp Basics

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