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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
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Lessons 62 to 65: Practicing Piece 12 – First Rhythmic Pattern of Rotation
In these sessions, we focus on Piece 12 from the Panersia collection, specifically practicing the first rhythmic pattern of “Rotation”. This exercise emphasizes rhythm reading, note placement, and maintaining a steady pulse throughout the pattern
By carefully executing the quarter notes, eighth notes, and rests, and combining them with slaps and hand placement techniques, students will strengthen their coordination, timing, and overall handpan performance skills. Paying attention to the dynamic differences between ding, ding side, and slap hits ensures expressive and controlled playing
This set of lessons also introduces the concept of alternating hand technique, encouraging balanced use of both hands to achieve fluidity and precision. Practicing these patterns repeatedly will improve muscle memory, rhythmic accuracy, and melodic interpretation, which are essential for performing the full “Rotation” piece
Through consistent practice, you will be able to combine rhythm and melody seamlessly, laying the foundation for advanced handpan compositions and performance techniques
1 . Course Introduction
3 . How to Play Handpan Notes Correctly?
2 . Lesson 58, performing piece No. 9: practicing the rhythmic pattern and playing the melody line over the pattern.
3 . Lesson 59 and Performance of Piece No. 10 – Playing and Introduction to Arpeggios on the Handpan.
4 . Lesson 60: Performing Piece 11 – Combining Eight-Note Rhythmic Patterns with Melody
5 . Lesson 61: Practicing a Section of the Rotation Melody on Handpan
6 . Lessons 62 to 65: Practicing Piece 12 – First Rhythmic Pattern of Rotation
7 . Lessons 66 & 67: Practicing Piece 13 – Second Rhythmic Pattern of Rotation
8 . Lessons 68 & 69: Practicing the third rhythmic pattern of Rotation, performing Piece 14
9 . Lessons 70 & 71: Performing Piece 15 – The Fourth Rhythmic Pattern of Rotation
10 . Lesson 72: Performing Piece 16 – Playing and Constructing Melodic Structures Using Chords
11 . Lesson 73 & 74: Preparatory Exercises for Performing Passages
12 . Lesson 75: Learning and Performing Triplet Notes, Whole Notes, and Half Notes
13 . Lessons 76, 77, 78: Practicing Single Strokes and Accents on the Handpan
14 . Lessons 79 to 84: Practicing Double Strokes and Paradiddle Strokes on the Handpan
15 . Lessons 85 to 93: Exploring Time Signatures and Ghost Note Execution on the Handpan
16 . Lesson 94 – Learning and Performing Piece No 17 in 6/8 Time Signature on the Handpan
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Playpan Handpan Level 1
✓ 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
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 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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