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Handpan Online Courses

Here you will find various online courses with pre-recorded videos on specific topics. This gives you the opportunity to watch them at any time and go through the courses at your own pace :)

Free, intuitive, meditative playing

Intuitiv spielen lernen – mit Struktur, Gefühl und Tiefe.

Immer wieder begegneten mir in meinen Kursen und im Austausch mit Spieler:innen dieselben Fragen:​​

Over time, the same wishes regarding handpan playing came up again and again.

  • How do I play for free?

  • How do I play intuitively and by feel, without thinking and without counting the beat ;) ?

  • How can I play meditatively or accompany yoga or meditation?

  • How can I play for a long time?

  • How do I develop beautiful melodies or pieces of music?

  • How do I add variety to my game?

  • How can I combine different melodies/grooves etc.?

  • How can I improvise?

  • How can I play everything I feel to fully express myself

All diese Themen möchte ich in dieser Online-Kurs-Reihe behandeln.

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Was dich erwartet

I would like to cover all of this in this online course series "Free, intuitive, meditative playing".

There will be several modules that build on each other to get a holistic picture of this topic. This course is suitable for beginners and advanced learners.

For me it is important to say up front that free and intuitive playing is - in my opinion - something that develops over time, the more you play and the more you understand and internalize the basics of rhythm.

PS : On the subject of rhythm and how best to practice in order to better monitor your progress - in the future I will try to reach newbies right from the start with an intensive rhythm module and also try to help advanced players to gain a very strong rhythm foundation.

Ein ehrlicher Blick auf intuitives Spiel

Personally, I'm a fan of counting (probably because my journey with drums began), especially when teaching, to create an understanding of where we are rhythmically when playing.

Over time, counting becomes an internal counting, a "bobbing" of the body, and at some point the counting happens subconsciously or becomes so internal to you that you no longer need to count consciously, you feel it inside you and are thus free from it.

I wanted to say that because it is still a musical instrument and some practice is necessary to reach this flow state.

(This is the state of complete absorption and effortless focus in which one is completely absorbed in an activity)

PS : Since the topic of wanting to approach the handpan without counting and without reading music comes up very often - I am currently working on something new (I don't know exactly in what form yet) to do justice to this approach :)

Free, intuitive, meditative playing - Module 1

Here is a short video showing what things we can play after we have learned the first module :)

Overview of the contents of the first module:

  1. intro

    • introduce scale

    • introduce chord progression

  2. Patterns (Arpeggios)

    • Introduction to the Principle

    • The dreamy pattern: 4 + basslines

    • Add variety: fill-ins and transitions

  3. Patterns as Melody

    • Introduction to the Principle

    • Creating a Melody

    • Add chords

(about 90 minutes of video material)

Modul 3 (ca. 168 Min. Videozeit)

Neue Pattern: 33334 & 323

Akkordfolgen & Grooves

Variationen & Dynamik

Meditative Grooves

Der "Schlüssel" zum freien Spiel

Here is a short video showing what things we can play after we have learned the second module :)

Overview of the contents of the second module:

  1. Patterns (Arpeggios)

    • The Secret of Handpan Players: The 332 Pattern

    • 332 First Steps

    • 332 Arpeggio

    • 332 variations

    • 332 times different

    • 332 Fill - Ins

  2. Patterns as Melody

    • Let chords breathe

    • 3364 Pattern

    • 332 Pattern as Melody

    • 333322 Pattern as melody

  3. final composition

(about 150min of video material)

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