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✓ Academic handpan learning and training
✓ Music theory instruction (rhythmic reading, note names, time signatures, musical symbols)
✓ Over 30 educational exercises (note execution, proper fingering, reverse playing) and performing pieces with backing tracks
✓ Includes sessions on yoga, breathing exercises, and corrective movements specifically for handpan playing
Lesson 8 – Playing and Learning the Eighth Note
In this lesson, we focus on one of the most essential elements of music theory and handpan playing: the eighth note. Mastering the eighth note (known as “quaver” in classical terminology) is crucial for developing rhythmic accuracy and fluency in both handpan exercises and musical performance
The eighth note has half the time value of a quarter note, which means two eighth notes are played within the duration of one quarter beat. By practicing this note, you will begin to understand faster rhythmic subdivisions and learn how to maintain a steady pulse even in more complex pieces
Through step-by-step exercises, we will practice reading, counting, and playing eighth notes on the handpan. This not only improves your rhythm reading skills, but also enhances your timing, coordination, and overall musical expression
Understanding and practicing the eighth note is a key foundation in your journey to mastering the handpan or hang drum, allowing you to play smoother, more dynamic, and rhythmically precise performances
3 . How to Play Handpan Notes Correctly?
24 . Lesson 8 – Playing and Learning the Eighth Note
27 . Lesson 12: Proper Handpan Striking and Finger Placement
30 . Lesson 15: Performance of the First Piece with Backing Track
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✓ Academic handpan learning and training
✓ Music theory instruction and practice (learning and performing sixteenth notes and dotted eighth notes, chord definitions, compound time signatures)
✓ Over 40 educational exercises (learning different rhythms, performing chords, practicing rhythmic figures, handpan composition techniques) plus performing pieces with backing tracks
✓ Includes sessions on yoga, breathing exercises, and corrective movements specifically for handpan playing
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✓ Academic handpan learning and training
✓ Music theory instruction and practice (learning thirty-second notes, whole and half notes, understanding arpeggios, defining ghost notes)
✓ Over 40 educational exercises (practicing 8/8 and 6/8 rhythms, performing single strokes and paradiddle strokes, handpan composition techniques) plus performing pieces with backing tracks
✓ Includes sessions on yoga, breathing exercises, and corrective movements specifically for handpan playing
Playpan Handpan Level 4
✓ Academic handpan learning and training
✓ Music theory instruction and practice (learning triplets and sextuplets, practicing and performing grace notes on handpan, learning flageolet technique)
✓ Over 30 educational exercises (practicing accents, single strokes, off-beats, various rhythmic figures, handpan composition techniques) plus performing pieces with backing tracks
✓ Includes sessions on yoga, breathing exercises, and corrective movements specifically for handpan playing
Playpan Handpan Level 5
✓ Academic handpan learning and training
✓ Over 20 educational exercises (practicing and learning polyrhythms, performing rhythmic figures with different time signatures, single strokes and paradiddle strokes, handpan composition techniques) plus performing pieces with backing tracks
✓ Includes sessions on yoga, breathing exercises, and corrective movements specifically for handpan playing
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