Discover important clues in your harp music

[@annecrosbygaudetmusic]

Today’s video is all about the music notation clues that I like to include in my scores to give you more support as you learn my pieces. Discover how the careful placement of brackets, fingering and stems can provide helpful learning clues. Which clues do you find most helpful?? Let me know in the comments! 0:00 Introduction 0:27 Bracket clues 1:09 Fingering and bracket placement 1:49 Stem direction rules 2:45 Exceptions to the stems rule

[@CzechJamie]

Thank you, Anne, for these lessons. I like to review short videos like this one at the end of my day.❤

[@annecrosbygaudetmusic]

Glad you are enjoying the short mini lessons!

[@colleenbateman9210]

Thank you for making things clearer for this “non musical” harp beginner! I have a 22 string Fireside Harp.

[@annecrosbygaudetmusic]

Wonderful! Glad it was helpful!

[@nihaimamoniquestamper7670]

Thank you for this teaching. Greeting from Netherland 🥰✍👍

[@annecrosbygaudetmusic]

You’re welcome, glad it was helpful!

[@rebeccaroseadams8694]

I love rules that have exceptions; the English language is full of them! I suppose music is a language, too. I think you explained today’s concepts very well. That is a compliment from my left-brain, which told my right-brain not to worry-music theory may be within my grasp with teaching like this. 🙂

[@annecrosbygaudetmusic]

You always leave the best comments 🎶🙂 I agree, music is very much a language!

[@rebeccaroseadams8694]

That’s only because my comments are inspired by the best composer and teacher E.V.E.R. 😊

[@carpenanne]

Such a clear and informative presentation

[@annecrosbygaudetmusic]

Thank-you!

[@lizziesmusicmaking]

This was interesting. I went off and compared what you do to other music I had handy, both for harp and recorder. I noticed that Sylvia Woods seems to be using left-hand brackets above the bass clef, so I'm guessing that one is a choice and different people do different things. I also wanted to check what happens when a large set of fast notes has some members where stems should go up and others where they should normally go down. It seems to be a case of majority rules, judging from my recorder music... which is what I was doing already when writing. Fortunately. Thank you for this. It is useful to learn.