How to get the BEST Sound from your Handpan // Essential Striking Techniques // Beginner Lesson
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- In this Handpan Lesson, we go over what I consider to be some of the most essential considerations in getting a powerful, controlled touch, and a great sound out of your instrument. We go over the primary striking techniques and a deep dive into refining our strikes. This lesson is great for beginners and though I consider myself somewhat advanced, I return to these principles and re-examine them every day.
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Thank you. That’s a big compliment. You are most welcome, and yes indeed, I have lots more to come :)
Just got my handpan, and I've been frustrated not getting clean tones. Your video is so clear to understand. I've been watching video after video and yours was the first that gave me that "a-ha" moment of understanding. I have been playing taiko drums for 10 years and I employ a lot of what you say in my drumming technique: relaxing my body; having the control come from my wrist. When I was helping to teach students, most important to me was getting them to understand centering the core of their body as a way of "feeling" and connecting with the drum as they play, which is not easy for a lot of people to understand. This is the first video I have found of you, so I am excited to learn more. Thanks again for sharing, this has been so helpful!
Wow, this is so wonderful to hear. I live for those a-ha moments! What a blessing. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽 I’m so glad you found the video and connected with it. I love what you are saying about the core. It’s true that ultimately that’s where it comes from, even down to the soles of the feet also. I mentioned it in my first edit but took it out because I was concerned I might loose some folks and take away from the main points, I will definitely speak more about it in my full course. Thanks for the reflections and reminder :)
I also played taiko in the past, and also got my first handpan. What me helps also is meditating before playing, and sort of keep the meditation state while playing, just the right balance between relaxation and concentration. And every movement comes from the feet, that is so true. I also practice tai chi for about 20 years and the techniques and balancing methods are also quite helpful
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I use to get that way for a while myself. Then I discovered David swarup(great player). I focused on his hands and really studied what he did I basically just copied how he did things and I eventually got my rhythm. I then played at the beach during the summer under a tree just practicing. Next thing I know I had a few people standing and watching. 😏👍
It's so fun when you get lost in a trance from your own groove and your hands just go by themselves 😌
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Thanks man. My first hand pan arrived today and this video was massively useful. Your teaching style is clear and precise, which also added to the value of the lesson.
Congrats! Welcome to the tribe. Glad you enjoyed it!!!
I play and teach several different instruments. Having recently fallen in love with the handpan (awaiting mine at this moment) and am looking forward to learning this lovely instrument. I have found your presentations to light, refreshing and highly instructional. You seem to have a very simple and clear way of explaining the basics. I look forward other presentations you have available. Thank you for making this information available.
Thanks so much! A few decades ago I learned Egyptian drumming from a master teacher, and so much of what you have to say here is the same.. relaxed, centred, precise, fluid wrist, go slow, balance the hands, play as quietly as you can, always check and correct for tone, balance and ease... love it!
From one teacher to another you have it, friend! Thank you so much for this!!!
my pleasure!
Cant wait to see more beginner videos, you are a most excellent teacher!!!!!!
Thank you so much :) Lots more coming
I found very precious gems for the development of my playing in that and so just want to say "thanks a lot" !
Its my pleasure! I am so glad you found it, and are benefitting from it :) Thanks for watching, learning and playing! Looking forward to a world of millions and millions of handpan players :)
The most helpful video I’ve watched on playing this so far. Thank you! 🙏
NICK! I have learned SO much from you over the years! I am a big fan and love your grounded and positive energy. I am very happy you enjoyed the video. I had no idea you were interested in handpan. People often overlook the basics, which are the beginning, foundation, and most advanced teachings in my opinion :) If I can help you in anyway in the world of handpan let me know. Email me at Handpan360@gmail.com
Wow this is so helpfull! I recently started playing on the handpan, and even though i hardly know how to play ghis instrument does something to me. Thank you so much!
Thanks Peter! I always learn something new from you.
Thanks Doran, always awesome to see you here stoked :)
You are amazing! Can't wait for your online course. Thank you!!!
Thank you so much :)
Thank you!
Thanks for the video 👍
Its really helpful 🙏
Thank you, I am just starting and your lesson has been helpful.
Love the detail!! An excellent video on the most foundational technique when playing handpan! Thanks Peter!
Thanks Justin! I’ve been meaning to get to this one for years! I’m glad people have an I terror in these deep dives. It’s amazing to me that what seems so simple on the surface, 10 years later still mystifies me and brings me deeper.
Your words are like poetry, and that instrument simply is the muse for which your energy flows.
Another very informative video. Thank you so much for taking the time to share these wonderful videos with us.
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 thank you Cathy!
This is so amazingly helpful. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I am so glad you find it useful!
Great lessons, can’t wait to get my hands on one soon
That’s exciting! I can’t wait for you either...will change your life 💓💓💓
Just got my handpan yesterday and this is an insanely helpful beginner lesson, thank you so much!
Man that bring me more joy than you may know!!! So happy to hear that 🤗 welcome to the tribe!
I like it... Thanks wonderful details you mentioned.
+Fuat YILDIZ you are most welcome :)
Thank you so much. Please continue making videos. Such an amazing teacher!!!!!!
Thank you! Much more coming soon :)
Great video! Very informative, really nice tips all the way through. Thank you so much!
my pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it
Great video !
Love your concise and poetic articulation …. much in the words, and, in the space between the words ✨🌸🎵
thank you :)
Great videos Peter! Lighthearted and very good, clear content. Thank you.
I've been practicing a little on a steel tongue (tank) drum that I've made, and SO excited because my ISKRA is on its way from Sean!!!
Thank you for your inspiration.
Thank you 💓 and about the Iskra….!!!! That’s so exciting! Congrats!
Thank you this is very beautiful and helpful for beginners
Thank you. You are very welcome! It is a joy
For me to share 🤗
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom on how to play better. I tried to watch this when I first started, but I wasn’t ready. After a couple of years I came back to it and got so much out of your teachings. I really appreciate what you have to educate and inspire ❤
this is beautiful feedback. thank you so much. Im glad you connected with it
Thank you so much for these! this is helping me so mucha nd I love your style of teaching in!
Im so glad its helping! enjoy the journey!
Very cool. Didn't know about the dimple border vs tone field tonal quality difference. I like the part where you are feeling into one hand so that you can transfer technique to the other. It's something that I never thought to do until I started playing drum kit. It's so interesting how we just can't transfer muscle memory / conditioning from one hand to another and how we have to train each side separately!
Right! I often imagine how wild it would be if we could trade our neural skills and capacities not just from left to right, but to one another...would be an interesting world 🤔
Thanks for lesson 💎
My absolute pleasure! Glad you like it :)
Thank you 🙏
Very good lesson!
I especially like that you talk about the the focus, breathing and being relaxed and centered.
It's something I try to remember myself of and focus on during each playing session.
Can't stress enough the importance of this (often overlooked) component of playing!
Thank you 💓 And yes absolutely, i agree, little things are easily overlooked but that’s where the magic often is 🙂
Hahahahahahahahaha I love the laughter and the depth of your explanations. It's all about those foundations brother.
💓💓💓 thanks :) truly truly, it’s always amazing to me how the simple things always come back around, revealing more each round ✨✨✨
Right, I love his laugh it makes me laugh and smile 😊 which rarely happens.
I bought a handpan this week and by chance I found your channel. I am amazed dude! U r a super teacher🔥🚀🙌🏻 I will wait until I get less busy to probably buy your course if you are selling one. If not you should make one.
Keep it up man!
Peter, thanks so much for sharing this video - there are many great tips here. Last night, I practiced using your 332 groove tutorial, and adapted that to my D Amara, and made some fantastic melodies. Really happy with my progress. I only bought mine last Sep.
That’s awesome! Almost to your 1st year anniversary! Congrats :)
thanks so much for taking the time to make this video. your advice is appreciated very much great detail breakdown in the importin's of the breathing and relaxation of the hands helpful tips i like to come back to this video right before i prates so i can start with the main tips in mind
thank you so much for this feedback. It means a lot to me that people are pickin up what im offering and finding it useful :)
j'adore ! merci
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Great teaching
Thank you!
Thank you Sensei
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Thank you ❤
my pleasure, thank you :)
Thank you! I have a handpan being built for me and it should arrive n 4 weeks time. This was very helpful. In a world where people only have enough concentration for short videos thank you for uploading a long one that was very interesting. I watched the whole thing and learned so much. New subscriber here.
Yes! That’s what I love yo hear! Glad you connected with it! More soon :)
Best thing ever on TH-cam
🤗 glad u like it
To breathe is such an underrated advice IMHO!
I'm 3 weeks in and I find myself too focused on making the next note that I suddenly realise I breathe really shallow...
100% by far the most important thing to do to improve, backed up by lots of new scientific research. I could speak for days on this topic, it is an endless well of inspiration and support
Thank you so much God bless
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Your laugh is contagious! Something tells me you have benefited from laughing yoga and you are naturally Intune with your inner joy :) Either way, great video. Thank you for helping me on my handpan journey. I just received my first one, and I am so ready for the many years of drumming ahead
Congrats!!!! Enjoy the journey!
I'M FROM COLOMBIA AND I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS...THANK YOU VERY MUCH BROTHER
You are very welcome. Thank you so much for watching and for your appreciation and for letting me know!
Grazie mille per la lezione
My pleasure :) thank you for watching 🙏🏽
This is terrific, thanks Peter! Received my first instrument, RAV Vast last night. Very fortunate to start off on the right foot with these good habits.
Awesome!!!! Congrats! Man that makes me so so so happy to hear :) what scale did you get?
@@Handpan360 G Pygmy, just love the sound so far. Also have a D 'Sabye' scale handpan coming from Makai Instruments soon, caught that handpan fever most severe ;)
@@markmanning295 very nice!
Haha! ... have not yet obtained my handpan! Only occurred to me today this belongs to my current energetic path, so, I thought, perhaps I should start learning, lol! ... Thank you for your expert initiation and technique into this ethereal delight.
Thanks so much! Wishing you all the best on your hunt for your instrument! Welcome to the tribe. Let me know if I can help in anyway.
@@Handpan360 awesome! Will do! Namaste 🌞
Found your helpful channel. I love listening to handpan players and decided to purchase one. I play piano and this is a new experience. I was not getting clean tones so I used a small mallet and could at least identify the note. I'm hoping by practicing your techniques I will actually be able to play. I'll let you know how it goes.
How Wonderful! Sometimes a clean rich sound can be challenging to get also depending on the quality of the instrument, so it may or may not have anything to do with you. What did you get?
Thanks so much! I've been wanting to ask you about how is best to strike the handpan but I hadn't finished watching all your vids yet so wasn't sure if you'd covered it already. Awesome stuff 👍👍
That’s awesome to hear! I love to hear that so much, way to go! Slow and steady and careful is always a wonderful way to go. And...in the future please don’t hesitate to ask, I don’t mind at all 🤗
@@Handpan360 thanks, I really appreciate that! 👍
Hey, what a cool video with useful techniques! Thanks!
Do you think you can you make a video on how to play the bottom notes of a handpan?
💓 I’m glad you enjoyed it and about the bottom notes, That’s a great suggestion, thanks!
Hey Brother, I am an OG just getting started and I am grateful to you for as much free content as you have provided. Give me a bit to get up to speed on all your excellent content and I will look to you first when it comes time to pay for lessons.
Kindly,
Papa BRad
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Thanks :) Im very happy you find the lessons helpful :)
ThANK YuO!!!
My pleasure! Glad it useful for you, thanks.
How to get the best sounds??? I know …just have you play my pans!!! 😂 Luv ya brother!! 🥰🛸🎶🦋
Hahahahahahahahaha 💓 love you Deb!
Many life lessons here also!
🙏🏽🤗💓 thanks Mark, for the reminder and everything else
I loved seeing the way you described the striking methods as having the ability of merging into one fluid circular motion. In all these years and all I have seen, heard, and been taught by you somehow I had missed that. It’s so funny how we compartmentalize and box things in. It was an eye opening moment for me. Thank you 🙏
+Kali Levitov that’s awesome! Can’t wait to hear how that influences your playing :) circles in circles in circles 💓🥰🤪
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:) thank you peter
My pleasure! I hope you find it helpful
i don’t even have a handpan but this is really cool :o
I love to hear that! Awesome, thanks!
The strike is what is tricky for me, once I get the strike down then I’ll be good! Thank you for these videos! I am new to the handpan and played the first time today. It was a little tricky at first to get a sound with my fingers especially the high notes and using my left hand.
Your a very welcome :) I’m glad you find them useful! It’s great your focusing on the non dominant hand! The high notes are definitely more tricky...but all of it is something a few thousand repetitions will take care of :) welcome to the handpan tribe 💓
@@Handpan360 Thank you so much! 💓 It was a beautiful experience yesterday playing for my first time, something I dreamed of for a long time! Yes, repetition is the best thing you can do to learn anything!! 🕉
I love to watch your tutorials (thank you so much for sharing!!!) and this one brings me right back to basics...........although I have been playing handpan for about a year now, I had to find out, that the strength and flexibility of my fingers is not developed as it should. So I started doing all kinds of exercises that will strengthen every single one of my fingers and the forearm-muscles, but also make it possible for me to play as relaxed as possible. I guess, even advanced players will always need to work on precision and flexibility of their hands/fingers....especially for double-strokes and rolls or other fingertricks! Could you extend this tutorial and make another one on the mentioned topic? I would love to see a lesson on exercises that will help to achieve this. And, so practising does not become tooo boring: how can I combine this and incorporate it into little phrases (sorry, I lack creativity) !!??
+subo Bo awesome questions and comment. I neglected directly focused of finger and arm work for most of the last 9 years. It was only in the last 4 years I started focusing more on it. I think the best way to practice things is in context. I built up a lot of hand strength during my 4 years of street performance. Playing a lot and focusing on great sound often is enough.
Also, yard work and puzzles help lol
Split hand/finger techniques is probably the best way to build arm and finger strength, imo. what really opened up the power in my hands. I’m working on a full course on this that hopefully will release this year, after the beginner course.
Lately I have been focusing more on strengthening and stretching. At some point I will make a video. I have had to because now if I don’t my hands start to hurt to the point of making it harder to play.
The most important thing in your comment to talk about though, imo, is the end. I would highly recommend you never speak against your desires. Our bodies, hearts, and mind will respond to what we hold in front as a mirror. I am sure you are creative in many many ways. It’s a matter of patients and practice. Becoming creative can be a developed skill. So for me a more useful statement would be something like, I really want to focus on playing kore creativity.
Thank you for this wonderful comment.
@@Handpan360 Thank YOU for this wonderful answer!! And yes, of course...........you are right: searching for creativitiy opens up possibilities........:-))) I will be open for surprise from now on! :-)))))
love the sound of these. would like to try one. they are expensive and dont want to drop the money if its something i might play then not play again.
If ur ever in north Florida your always welcome to come by and try a bunch :)
@@Handpan360 just got the GLADFRESIT 432hz today. it sounds alright, since im very new to this. either im going to keep trying it or sell it later on. lets see how this ages.
@@tallicafan85 its totally part of the journey finding the pans you connect with :) Best of luck!
Thank you for this very helpful video! I am still awaiting my first handpan but fell for it during a beginner's workshop last weekend. I will practice some striking even without a pan. Oh and let me ask what lighting you used for the video? I love the light bulbs in the dark while one still can see your face great. All the best, Theresa
thanks so much. Where was the workshop? anyways, regarding the lighting, the bulbs are led, I use two godox ul150's with softbox domes and honeycomb filters. hope that helps.
@@Handpan360 thank you! The workshop was in Ingolstadt in Germany 🙂
This is great. I am currently comparing handpans. I live in Canada - what company or handpans do you recommend? Thanks.
been away for a bit, back now, if your still looking for an instrument, I am happy to chat anytime, feel free to email me at Handpan360@gmail.com
I love your videos! I bought a handpan, and I noticed that the tone C doesn't sound the same to me when I hit different parts of the circle of the note C, which is not the case with the other tones and they all sound the same, regardless of where I hit in the circle. The C tone sounds quite muffled when I hit it in the upper part, while anywhere else in the C range it sounds normal. It is noticeable a lot, and I wonder if this is a reason to return the handpan and ask for a replacement? Thank you!
Thanks so much for the kind words! There is an incredible range of quality amongst builders, so much so that some handpans are hard to even call handpans. And even with a great builder, the amount of weird things that can go wrong are astonishing. If you are not happy and can get a refund I would do so asap. If you are looking for guidance for a handpan, I offer free scale consultations at www.Handpan360.com where I also sell instruments from great makers I know personally. You can also find reputable distributers at planet handpan and master the handpan. Good Luck!
Very nice what make handpan are you using?
In this one I am playing a 2015 Ayasa E Equinox :)
Hi , thanks for this.what scale is that pan?
It is an Ayasa Nitrided E Equinox built in 2016
Which acoustic panels are behind you?
UA Acoustics Bass Traps
"The note goes kinda GWONK" 😆
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That’s as technical as it gets!
What handpan are you using?
Do you have any "hand pan"you want to sell? Used but still sound good
How can I tune my hand pan. My high notes sound our of tune.
Всё верно. Однако и сам инструмент должен быть отменного качества и настройки☝️
That helps a lot for sure!
Mine is i think beyond redemption as it was in a very bad fire. He case stuck to it, i scrapes it off and sent it away but the repair man couldnt do it andd cracked a sound pit, now it womt eing without effort, is it me or is it it. Its bronze
I never heard of a bronze handpan, is it bronze or colored gold? Who is the original builder? who did the repairs? A cracked dimple isnt necessarily the end, it can be welded...feel free to email me at handpan360 at gmail dot com you can send. me video/pictures and I will give my opinion and suggestions as best I can
Why can’t you just use small mallets instead?
You can use mallets, you have to be very which kind you get as most can easily damage the instrument. If I’m going to use mallets for a very warm sound, I’ll select usually some thing out of some kind of cloth fabric like material that is fairly soft. Even when I do this it is possible to damage the instrument. Also, with mallets, you lose a lot of the control that you have with your hand. For me, that’s what makes the instrument, so fun, has all the finger in hand techniques that you can utilize and all the subtle tea that this brings to playing.
Did you have any Russians in your family? Just out of curiosity ;)
A few...😜 my parents are both from Moscow 💓
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