How to Read Lead Sheets for HARP | How to Add Left Hand Chords 

So glad it was helpful for you!

Thanks for your feedback, Amanda!

Wonderful, glad it was helpful!

I'm still doing monthly workshops! They've just moved to my club over at patreon.com/tiffanyharpandsong. Actually we just did one similar to this last month - we all pitched in and wrote an arrangement for Jock O'Hazeldean over Zoom. The recording and sheet music is still available for download there if you want to check it out!

Thank you! I so appreciate when people take the time to let me know my videos are helpful :) Are you new to the harp?

@@tiffanyharpandsong Yes! I just got my Rees 26 string SE Fullsicle 2 weeks ago. I am really focused on getting my hand positions correct as well as bracketing. I can't tell you how much your videos have helped. I plan on joining your Patreon site too.

Good for you, hand position can be one of the hardest things to get down, but so much easier if you develop good habits early. :) Let me know if I can ever help you with that! Happy harping

@@tiffanyharpandsong I first saw you on Christy-Lyn's site when you were doing a tutorial on Celtic harp. It is so rewarding to see 2 harpists who share with each other to help all of us. I just love you both and find all your postings uplifting, very helpful and INSPIRING! I'm hooked!

@@bdnewfound Christy-Lyn is great, isn't she? She inspires me too!

That's the idea! Of course once you're comfortable you can start embellishing the right hand too - by adding extra notes in the chord, ornaments, etc.

Love what you're doing with your channel, Laurie!

Good question! For starters I would say try starting the triad in 3/4 on the first beat in your measure. You have a few options here; you could break apart your triad and play 1 LH note for each of the 3 beats in your measure (you'd then count each left hand note 1 "and" for the 1st note, 2 "and" for the second note, and 3 "and" for the 3rd note). This gives you a very steady sounding measure. Another option is you could break apart your triad a little more quickly - 1st and 2nd notes of your chord could be 8th notes (you'd count that 1 for the 1st left hand note, "and" for the second left hand note, 2 "and" 3 "and" for the last note.) This leaves some space at the end of your measure- its ok to have empty space! Another option is to play your triad as a block, all on the first beat. So you'd play them all at once and count 1 "and" 2 "and" 3 "and". For songs in 4/4, and when you only still want 3 notes in the left hand, you can pretty much follow the same advice above to start with - like you could break apart your triad one note for each of the fist 3 beats in a measure, and then the 4th beat just won't have a note in the left hand - and that's OK! I hope that makes sense. Let me know!

You always give such detailed replies and know how to break it down in a way a newbie like me understands it. It's a teaching skill not many have mastered!! Thank you so much, I can now finally make my first own arrangement 🥰🥰🥰🥰

I've tried joining your patreon a few times, without success. Will give it another go soon but might message you beforehand to make sure I sign up the right way this time 🥰

Hi Victoria! When you get a harp tuned in C, it's just like the white keys of a piano. It's actually easier to see triads on a harp, because the spacing is all the same. For example, a simple C triad chord is played by starting on C, skipping a string and playing E, then skipping another string and playing G. All triads will look like that: string, skip, string, skip, string. You might find my inversions video helpful because I touch on that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VKOVjRZv3KU.html For changing the third of the chord, that's what levers are for. They kind of act like the black keys of a piano. For example I can play D, F, A, for a D minor chord. If I want to change it to D major, I would have to raise my F lever to F sharp. Learning the Harp with Christy-Lyn has some great beginner videos. I also offer one- or two-time lessons on zoom if you want someone to get you started on the right path. You can email me at tiffanyharpandsong@gmail.com.

Got it! Thanks for sharing and help!

@@sharonbaker6907 Oh good! Glad you were able to get it. Happy harping!

Hi Sally, sorry to hear you're having trouble, did you try this link in the video description? abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=thesession.org/tunes/11188.no-ext/0002

@@tiffanyharpandsong hi Tiffany, I found a sheet of music for the song on the net, same key signature, so that worked out good. Thank you for your reply and will check out your link. I learn't so much from your lesson. I have always wanted to understand how to interpret the chords at the top of the music and you explained it so well. I will keep watching, you explain thing so well. Talk soon and thanks again

@@tiffanyharpandsong thank you Tiffany, much appreciated (I live in a place called Emerald Beach NSW, the East Coast of Australia) so glad I found your learning site. Talk soon & have a Merry Christmas