Tuesday Evening Online Workshop

Time : 7.00pm-8.00pm (UK)
Fee : £10.00 GBP payable in advance
Schedule : We meet every Tuesday evening
Platform : Zoom

How to sign up
Harp Surgery sessions are pay-as-you-go. To confirm your attendance and receive our unique weekly password please transfer £10.00 GBP in advance by simply typing this address paypal.me/harpsurgery into your web browser and following the instructions. You can choose to transfer funds from your personal PayPal account or use the credit/debit card option when you check out. Please include your chosen Workshop Date and Your Own Name in the ‘What’s this payment for?’ window. We will send our workshop’s Zoom log-in to the email address in your payment. If you experience difficulty, you can email or call the Harp Surgery using the Contact page on this website.

What do workshops include?
Styles from Blues, Americana, Folk, Celtic, Latin, Pop, Rock, and World Music. Breathing and musical warm up exercises. How to identify the key of a ‘mystery’ song. Work on chosen study pieces. Focus on specific harmonica skills and techniques. Jamming. Q&A, advice and information exchange. We use a combination of harmonica tabs and standard notation, but you won’t need to read music in order to join in. All ability levels are welcome.

What to bring
As a minimum, you’ll need a harmonica in the key of C major. Other keys will be of benefit over time. We use the 10 hole diatonic harmonica. That’s the short ‘blues’ style harmonica (rather than chromatic or tremolo harmonica). A note book and pen are also recommended.

While on Zoom
You will need to activate ‘Background Sound for Musicians’ in order for us to hear your harmonica. You can activate this by entering Zoom’s Audio Settings. You can then turn the feature on and off from your home screen. During our workshop please ensure that normal behaviour protocols are followed. Suitable attire should be worn. Please remember that at the Harp Surgery we have  a policy of inclusion, diversity and equality. Swearing, disparaging or demeaning remarks will not be tolerated, and political comment should be avoided.

Can I record our workshop?
Owing to intellectual copyright, personal audio and video recording of our workshop is not permitted. Tabs and backing tracks will be made available for you to practise between sessions. If we record our session for use by absentee group members, we will ask for your consent to be filmed beforehand.

Can I book 1:1 tuition too?
Yes of course. Contact Richard and he will help to set up an appointment in person or on Zoom.

Enquiries
Please contact Richard Taylor using the details on our website Contact page. This helps prevent bot and spam engine attacks.