Festival Events

Guide to Course Levels & Teaching Method

Course Levels

  • Beginner: You have no experience of playing the harp.
  • Post-Beginner: You took last year’s beginners’ class, have had relatively few lessons and/or require help with basic technique.
  • Elementary: You can already perform simple tunes, require further help in consolidating basic technique and wish to work slowly and carefully.
  • Intermediate: You already have good technique and can work at a moderate pace.
  • Advanced: Your technique is good and you wish to stretch yourself.
  • Mixed Ability: For all levels, except Beginner or Post-beginner.

For further advice about course levels please contact us on +44 (0) 131 445 2022

Teaching Method

  • E: teaching will be by ear with no written music given out
  • E+M: teaching will be by ear with written music given out during or at the end of the class or course
  • M: teaching will be from written music
  • M+E: written music will be given at the start of each course. Teaching methods will be sympathetic to all levels of skill in reading music.
Events for March, 2012 »
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Patrick Ball / Rachel Hair Trio
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Come and try Pedal Harp
Scottish for Children, Melodies of the Western Isles: Elementary – 5 day course
Scandinavian Tunes: Elementary – 5 day course
Early Continental Music: Elementary / Intermediate – 5 day course
A world of rhythms: Intermediate – 5 day course
Scottish Music, Simple Airs and Dances: Elementary – Weekend course
Finding the Lost Chord… yup, it’s out there somewhere: Intermediate – 5 day course
Welsh traditional Airs and Dance Tunes: Intermediate / Advanced – 5 day course
You’ve Got Rhythm, You’ve Got Music! Advanced – 5 day course
Storytelling with the Harp: Mixed Abilities – 5 day course
Come and try Autoharp
Find the Lost Cave of Harps: Children 5 to 8 years
Tai Chi Classes – 5 day course
The Making of a Harp / John Hoare
Bringing a Legend to the Stage / Patrick Ball
Cross rhythms and Dance tunes / Edmar Castaneda
Post-beginners – Children – 5 day course
Scottish for Adults: Elementary – 5 day course
Ready, Set Go! Elementary – 5 days course
Slow Session: Elementary – 5 day course
Singing with self-accompaniment: Elementary / Intermediate – 5 day course
Catriona’s Top Tunes: Intermediate – 5 day course
Beginners – Adults – 5 day course
Scandinavian Tunes: Intermediate – 5 day course
Airs, Waltzes and Tunes from around the World: Intermediate / Advanced – 5 day course
Learn from the Master of Cross Rhythms: Advanced – 5 day course
Come and try Ukulele
Performance Ensemble: Mixed Abilities – 5 day course
Scottish Music: Intermediate – Weekend course
Find the Lost Cave of Harps: Children 9 to 14
An Audience with Catriona McKay
Ceilidh Dance / Kate Gray
Tai Chi Classes – 2 day course
Beginners – Ùlpan (Gaelic language course) – 5 day course
Composition Transition: Elementary – 5 day course
O’Carolan and Beyond: Intermediate – 5 day course
Border Tunes: Intermediate – 5 day course
Celtic Connections: Intermediate – 5 day course
Post-beginners – Adults – 5 day course
Looking for Leverage, Broadening Your Harp’s Horizons: Intermediate / Advanced – 5 day course
Scottish Tunes: Advanced – 5 day course
Come and try Wire-Strung Clarsach
Wire-Strung Harp, early and modern techniques, early and traditional repertoire: Mixed Abilities – 5 day course
Come and try Autoharp
Learning by Ear: Elementary / Intermediate – 5 day course
Rhodri Davies / Anne-Marie O’ Farrell & Cormac De Barra
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