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I think I'm going to see how many days in a row this month I can manage harp playing and practicing. I did about 25 minutes tonight, which is about as much as my shoulder would take, given various aches from last night.
I did various finger exercises (One of the things about harp is that the same structure changes slightly depending on where it is on the harp: for example, a C-E-G-C-G-E-C arpeggio feels slightly different than G-B-D-G-D-B-G does, just because the distance from your body to the strings changes.)
But I started very slowly, with my metronome on 60, and did various exercises, a little sight reading, and then a bit of improving around on the chant "Ancient Mother" on the theory that of all the musical stuff I do, being able to improv on Pagan chants is probably the most useful in practical terms, and besides, that's fun.
I did various finger exercises (One of the things about harp is that the same structure changes slightly depending on where it is on the harp: for example, a C-E-G-C-G-E-C arpeggio feels slightly different than G-B-D-G-D-B-G does, just because the distance from your body to the strings changes.)
But I started very slowly, with my metronome on 60, and did various exercises, a little sight reading, and then a bit of improving around on the chant "Ancient Mother" on the theory that of all the musical stuff I do, being able to improv on Pagan chants is probably the most useful in practical terms, and besides, that's fun.
