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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 9 & 10: Alternating Hand Technique
One of the most essential exercises in handpan training is the Alternating Hand Technique. This practice transforms you into a truly two-handed player, enhancing your control, coordination, and dexterity on the handpan
By practicing alternating hand patterns, both hemispheres of your brain are engaged, strengthening neural connections that improve hand coordination, rhythm accuracy, and musical creativity. This exercise removes physical and cognitive limitations, opening new possibilities for improvisation, composition, and complex rhythmic patterns
Regular practice of the Alternating Hand Technique allows you to move your hands fluidly, maintain rhythmic independence, and achieve stronger brain-hand coordination. It also expands your musical creativity, giving you freedom to explore advanced patterns, melodies, and improvisational ideas
Mastering this technique is foundational for any handpan player seeking professional-level performance, dynamic control, and expressive musicality. Incorporating it into your practice ensures your playing becomes more versatile, precise, and musically engaging
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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Playpan Handpan Level 2
✓ 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
Playpan Handpan Level 3
✓ 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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