Q and A - 13 questions and 1 piece of music 

Yes. I would pay for your free services because as you say it takes you 3 days each week to do each Friday free lesson. You make a living with music and to not make any money for 3 days a week is not fair to expect it for years from you. It’s not much to pay a few dollars a month on Patreon - I’m sure people are not so selfish not to support such a great dedicated instructor. I’m grateful.

I'd prefer sticking with kurd please. Thanks again for the videos

David Thank you for all your hard work. Please keep to Kurd 9 If you’re not a student of David Kuckhermann you should consider signing up for his paying classes. It’s awesome and you have a better understanding of music as it relates to the handpan. Use his lessons in conjunction with other online lessons as it’s different.

I LOVE that all ur videos are on a Kurd!! It’s way easier to follow when we’re both using the same scale. 😃

Hi David, I'll start with this first and then come back to answer more. The stuff you put out I find really helpful. I would have no problem supporting this with some monthly contribution. I like the Kurd you use, I guess primarily because my pan has nine notes on the top as well, and as a beginner, being able to practice the tunes in a consistent note lay out is helpful. That will more than likely change as my ability develops. Thanks again so much, and more later.

Dear David, I'd love to support your work: this would be so well-deserved for the quality of its content and the time you dedicate to it every week. Regarding the scale, I found the D-Kurd very helpful as it is such a common scale: also we can really appreciate the differences in the different grooves when all played with the same instrument. As for the favorite episode, it's hard to pick one as I learnt so much for each and everyone of them (but I'd say the episode with your Top 5 Grooves if I really have to pick one). I hope that with our contribution, you'll keep producing these amazing tutorials. Best regards, Romain Ballet.

Patreon is cool with me.....you deserve it for these great lessons!

Hello David, Supporting these videos and the additional content through Patreon would be a good way to repay you for all the work these tutorial must take. It seems only fair.

Great series! Yes on Kurd 9. Yes on support. Yes on beard.

I just started with hand pan, David, and I like your videos and explanations. I would consider Patreon with you if it was not a large monthly amount. I am happy with whatever hand pan you use. You probably need a little variety for yourself so changing it up once in a while is understandable.

Hi! Please, continue your lessons on Curd:-) And yes, it's take a lot of your time to do interesting and useful lessons, so I would support the video series through Patreon.

Was du hier mit uns teilst, ist ein großes Geschenk, das gerne honoriert werden soll. Auch ich bin dafür, dass du weiter D Kurd benutzt. Zu meinem Glück fehlt mir genau der neunte Ton noch .... habe bisher Kurd 8. Dadurch muss ich einiges abwandeln, was nicht immer zufriedenstellend klingt.

Thanks for another cool video. Your work is highly appreciated! Although I have your full courses, these little snippets each week motivate me to keep going! Please keep the Kurd 9, it's versatile and I own one too, so it's easy to follow. :)

Honestly, I believe the lessons will be easier to understand on the Kurd 9, instead of on a more "odd" scale like a pygmy! It doesn't sound too repetitive using the kurd. At least to me.

Hi David, thanks for this Q&A session. Very informative! In answer to your Q's: Yes, l do think the Kurd 9 is a good fundamental scale to follow in general. Yes, l think it only fair, as others have stated, to pay a small monthly fee to contribute to future productions. I know someone may not be able to afford, but sure they will greatly appreciate and support you in other ways. Top 5 grooves was a good one and l enjoyed every other session. Gratitude to you for your contributions to us all.🙏🙏

I would pay a monthly fee, David. Your videos are excellent and your teaching is easy to follow. You are meeting my needs so nicely. Thanks so much!

The professional quality of your weekly tutorials and the work you put into them are highly visible. I would very much support them through contribution. Thank you for all your great work and effort to make them available. I enjoy the Kurd9 as far as consistency throughout the series. But would be curious to hear what other scales might bring to the mix. As far as a favorite episode.. I can’t really say because I’ve taken so much from each one that you’ve done. They’ve all been very helpful.

thanks David for your awesome videos each week. I personally found the following two videos the most useful: 1- how to do fast rolls 2- how to develop a simple idea into a composition for the patron thing I think that most of us will gladly contribute without hesitation. BUT please also continue providing free lessons for those that for any reason may not be able to pay for them...

Mir hilft am meisten Deine Erklärung zu Deiner Übungspraxis: "Practice plan" in den Q and A und die Übung für Independence der beiden Hände (anderes Video zu Q and A). Danke!

Oh, first of all - thanks again for your videos. I believe they are among the best handpan lessons ob the internet today. :) For what about the instrument that you use - yes, kurd is one of the most popular scales, but many people have kurd 8 (like me, for example) or other scale with 8 notes (+ding), not kurd 9, so using note 9 gives us a need to change the melody.

Hi David ! Thanks - I am loving these videos - I have answered on your Facebook Page :)

Thanks for your dedication and time for making the videos with such a great quality , you are very talented, I would love to watch videos in different scales, have a nice day, I was waiting for this video

I have a Rav Vast B-Kurd..just discovered your lessons and find them very helpful...thank you for your great skill, knowledge and great teaching style

The top 5 grooves video is a real gem and i love the tipps for improvisation and independence. Yes i'd like to support you on patreon for your very helpfull outstanding content. No exklusive content needed.

Hi David, You provide professional quality material and I can hardly wait for your next tutorial. I would definitely pay a reasonable amount for the content. I am new generally to music and absolutely to handpans, therefore any help I can gather is crucial to the quality of time I can spend with the instrument, which is giving me a lot in its own unique way. What I am currently looking for is basically exercises to improve my playing technic as well as some direct music pattern that I can learn and enjoy playing. I believe both are equally important for we all would like to enjoy playing some music for ourselves until it becomes enjoyable by others :) Thanks a lot for your efforts! Zoltán

Hi, David! I prefer different scales)

Thank you for so much of your time and dedication. You deserve much more recognition for all you do, it's so well thought-through, proffesional, funny, patient and explanatory. This is top-tier content and I hope we can find more ways to support you as best as we can.

D-minor

Thank you for sharing your knowledge- it wasn't too much talking at all! You have so much valuable information and so much to teach and we could all listen to you talk for hours

Hi David, Another fantastic lesson, thank you. I am finding all of the videos very helpful and I really appreciate all the work that you do to produce them. They are a wonderful addition to your handpan dojo course. (The course is fanastic, by the way!) Like others, I would happily pay to support your work on these videos. There is really no-one else doing on-line hand pan teaching of this quality! As weekly videos might not be sustainable long term, maybe you could post a video every 2 weeks? There is certainly enough in each video to keep a lot of players busy for much longer than that. I am adding bits of all of them into my practice schedule. Regarding the scale you use, I have a very different scale to the Kurd 9, (an 8 note E Sabye D) but I have no problem with applying the lessons to my scale, or adapting the notes slightly. Sticking with the Kurd 9 seems the most popular option.

To answer some if your questions: What I prefer is when you compose some melodies and put the partition so I can try to play it back again, I love that. I would be okay yes paying to have access to pdf partitions. I play a D Minor handpan, so it is perfect for me if you use this one too even if i dont mind much transposing from another tone. Thanks for your great videos!

Great video very helpful and a very good addition to your online tutorial! Personally I like the scale you use !!!

It's kinda hard to make any suggestions on how to improve your videos, in my opinion it's already top-notch. 10/10.

Hi david , at first i prefer different scale because some pattern is so nice on one scale but not on different scale , second (like kurd and onoleo ): in my opinion first video is best and so affected for me , i have question and want more about mixing patterns .

Hi David! Answering to your questuions. I don't think that using only Kurd in your lessons is "boring". Even for me, owner of handpans of different scales. It pushes me to use ideas you explain in other context that is very interesting and fun :) Additional materials for Patreon subscribers sounds great. The best episode... It's not easy to choose as I learned a lot from each of them. But let it be 1st one, about fast rolls, because my rolls improved dramatically thanks to those exercises. Apart from your questions I have question to you. It relates ghost notes. I had not used them in my playing before I watched your lessons. And them really helps to better understand groove, get used to hand pattern and just be more precise in rythm. But it's hard to me to control dynamic - my ghost notes are often not really "ghosty". Could you please give some tips how to improve it? For now I try to play slowly controlling dynamic of each stroke, ghost note, slap etc. Is it the only way? I'm glad to hear that you are going to release lessons about odd meters, polyrythms and harmonic isolation! :)

Concerning your home studio : it is not ( as said in the subtitles) a "ships mk4 microphone" but the firm is called Schoep ! And it isn't a rubin microphone, but a "ribbon microphone" . But what is a Picasso recording? I prefer your Kurd 9 handpan and lessons, because most beginners use this. The most beautiful episode is the one in which one learns a short composition and the 5 best grooves ! I support to use Patreon to finance your wonderful lessons. You really deserve it ;))

I would happily support you on patreon. The notation pdfs and backing tracks Ould be much appreciated as well.

Makes sense to stay with the Kurd 9. Love these videos.

Hi David! Thank you very much for your videos and sharing your knowledge and expirience C: My advice for you: As a Master, you are in the other side, as a person learning without previous music background, like me and other people we are on the ''other side''. It is amazing how you explain in many different ways and a lot of tips! but sometimes it may don't work in the way the brain and hands are responding and taking out this information. Think about, to ask Berlin people or around germany, to come over to you when you record the tutorials, and record with the beginners, medium and advance players and you and the people behind the screen could have another expirience which could have another effect, may be a easiest way for the ''other side'' to understand and incorporate that. Thank you and viele liebe Grüße! Santy

woah I’m excited for your lessons with nadishana!!!

Thank you David, lots of good info

Hello David, again a nice piece of Knowledge-Sharing. Thank you so much. I would like to support you with a Patreon-Account. Best regards ... Stefan.

Thank you so much!!!

What a Legend!

Ah it's too bad I'm going on holidays this week because I really want to try that pattern. The good news is that when I get back there will be another #handpanfriday to watch. Thanks for this video!

I really enjoy you keeping it the same with D Kurd scale, especially for the reasons you mention. Thanks so much for all you do! I'm adapting your teaching to my tonguepan - helping me a lot. Is there any link between supporting you on Patreon and your course or vice versa (or is it a separate thing). Stay safe. Stay healthy. Keep teaching!

thank you so much for this Q&A friday video and answering all the intresting questions. defenitly worth and intresting for me to have maybe access to backingttacks (or maybe a samplepack???) as a patreon. i realy like your videos and i havent seen better tutorials.

Hi David, I really like your courses and find them very helpful! I already have your Handpan and Sound Sculptures Courses as well as the Handpan Dojos. I understand that producing these courses takes time and you do it in good quality. I would be ready to pay for the courses if the price is reasonable / not too high. (There are now courses from other handpan players that you can buy and I find the price is getting too expensive). The content should be different from the other couses that you already provide. I have a Kurd D and an Amara C#. Even tough it might be nice to have some nice parts for my Amara C#, I think it would benefit most people if you use your Kurd 9 for the courses. (Maybe you could make one course on how to transpose a song into other scales or on accords / sequences that sound good on other scales?) I particularly like the course on the slap on Jan 17 and on different grooves on Jan 25. What I particularly like about them is that there are different levels of difficulty so you have immediate success and still a challenge you can work on. I also like to learn different grooves or patterns as I often use just notes and find it difficult to add some percussion. I would be particularly interested in a course on independence with some exercises. And it would indeed be good to have the notes that go with the videos.Thanks for all your videos and courses - they are really motivating and have helped me make progress. I am already desperately waiting for your videos every Friday! Please continue- they always make me happy!

Crystal clear

The more scales the better

I think your beard looks great! ;) I think Patreon would be a great idea for your channel. There are very few niche musical channels out there that offer the production quality you have. Also, I wanted to ask if you're planning of releasing such videos for your other instruments, like the riq or frame drum? Would be cool!

I love your videos and would absolutely support you on Patreon.

Noch was in Deutsch, weil ich das auf Englisch nicht so gut ausdrücken kann:Ich hatte mich schon gewundert, als du angekündigt hast, dass du jede Woche ein Video rausbringen willst, weil das so viel Arbeit ist... Ich fände es völlig o.k.,wenn die Videos auch mal später oder unregelmäßig kommen, auch wenn ich mich auf jedes neue freue! Hauptsache, es geht DIR gut dabei! Take good care of yourself- und danke für deine tolle Arbeit! Ich finde, du kannst echt gut erklären... Gibt es eigentlich eine Möglichkeit, dich regelmäßig zu unterstützen, ohne einen Kurs zu buchen (so was wie Crowdfunding o.ä.)? Ich bin mit dem, was du kostenlos zeigst, völlig ausgelastet...

Hello David, Thanks for your Q&A section. So, I have also a question or even a “request”. Might it be possible that you indicate in the final sequence the BPM, so I can learn the right “pulse” with my Metronom ? Thx 🙏🏻

Hey David, Thanks again for a great video! :) Could it be a typo in your notation for the melody? the second stroke seems to be 358 instead of 258 :)

🐶😀good

Hi David, pls suggest the best handpan equipment/brand to buy?

D minor is ok