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Winter and Spring Zoom Workshops |
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Re-energize Your Harp Creativity with Amelia Romano – Jan. 30. 2021 |
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We are starting the year off right with jazz harpist, Amelia Romano. She be teaching us a process for adding syncopation to improv. Look for that class on January 30, 2021. You can audit the class for $20 and be a masterclass student for $40. |
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More workshops coming later in the Spring: Mid-February: Tech and the Harp. How to use loopers, amps and mics to make the most of your harp. Taught by Dallas-based harpist, Carrie Tollett. Mid-March: Learn How to Play Harp for Absolute Beginners: LIVE! This is a live version of my 6-part learn to play harp series. Taught by yours truly! April/May: Jazz Harp with Welsh National Harpist, Ben Creighton-Griffiths. Are there workshops you’d like to see me teach? Reply to this email and let me know! Thanks! Cymber |
Happy Holidays, and Good Things Coming in 2021
Hi there! I know it’s been a while since I’ve written. There’s no time like the present to get back in touch.
First, I want to wish you the happiest of holidays, even if it under the weirdest of circumstances. And I want to announce new beginner group classes coming at the end of January. If you took my free Learn How to Play Harp for Absolute Beginners free video course, I will be teaching LIVE!
There will be bonus materials with the class, and each class is tailored specifically to what you want to learn! I can’t give you all the details right now because I’m still putting the finishing touches on the class.
But I would like to ask you one question:
What are the biggest challenges you face as you are getting started playing the harp?
Go ahead. Hit reply and let me know. I really want this group class to be meaningful and helpful to you.
I’ll get busy putting together this new class, and I’ll see you in the new year!
Blessings, Cymber
Learning Music is Something to be Enjoyed
Dear Rosalani Students, Kurt Vonnegut grew up in the little town where I went to high school. Like so many of us, he had the idea of “achievement” baked into him so deeply, that he believed that he would never be good at music. Then he met someone who believed, as I do, that learning music is something to be enjoyed. And from that enjoyment comes mastery eventually. But all along the way, there is the enjoyment.
“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you,’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, ‘
‘Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘ I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.’
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could ‘Win’ at them.”
Kurt Vonnegut:
Blooming Music
I love sharing exciting performances and projects that my former students create. Andrea Cortez plays beautiful sound medicine and works with plants (yes, plants!) to share music that blooms. Way to go, Andrea!
“Thank you to @bossbabesatx and @babesfest for creating the space for sound medicine with harp and plant music. 🌱🌱🌱
We had 2 outdoor sessions on Saturday and I know there was a mutual feeling of gratitude to be able to gather safely.
Music as medicine creates a space that is healing on many levels. It is a beautiful practice to bring into your day. To be present with sound, harmony, and rhythm brings balance to the mind, body and heart.
Events always posted to the calendar on my profile @mindbodymusiccenter”