I'm so grateful for your videos too! 🙏❤ You're so loveable and talented! The world needs more people like you 🥰 Keep going and I wish you all the Best 🫂
Great ideas/system! There's not enough out there on how to compose, but then again a lot is using these building blocks to unleash your own creativity.
It would be helpful for us newbies if you mentioned the scale of your handpan. This will help in future selection of new handpans to have a wall of them as you have😊
Amy, thanks and thanks again and again! Brilliant, inspirational and super didactic! You are our gift from the heavenly dimensions of harmony and peace! Keep sharing, honey, your useful and motivational videos, you are changing the world for the best through you kindness, talent and teachings! We study from you and together we are filling united, like one community in harmony of open heart culture. Brotherly hug from all heart
this was such a helpful video! You have an approach that brings structure into playing but doesn't take out the intuitivity and the fun of it at the same time, thanks for everything that you share with us
This is awesome :) thanks 💓....”being able to decide when to stop” 😆😆😆 omg, i relate to this...I’ve been working on my first solo album for 10 years 😂 I think I am just beggining to be satisfied with my strikes... 🤣 now perhaps time to compose some... thanks for the inspiration. Great lesson.
I just started playing. Other tutors simply play to fast!! With you I can simply start slowly, and learn. Its all about muscle memory. Thanks for your wonderful vids.
With this, I have more control and time to make choices of notes. I just practice on groove method now and moving forward slowly cuz I like surprises and Peter (@Handpan 360) told that, slow is fast. Because of Peter I came to know about this timing unit box system. Thanks Peter (@Handpan 360) Thank you Amy to show me ways to connect deeply to my handpan.
Thanks for this video!! I am a begginer and this is very helpfull🙏🙏🙏💚 i have a f low pigmy...it change somethings? I try....thanks!! Have a wonderful day! Greta
Thanks Greta. Yes, you have less notes than the pan I am using in this video, and it has a very different feel, but so beautiful too! I also have an F Pgymy that I have used in a couple of tutorial videos, maybe these will be useful for you
have you ever taught anyone with co-ordination difficulties? I have dyspraxia the very common pattern you played around 16mins, I think i struggle having one hand doing one thing and the other coming in doing something different, might just be something I have to practice, enjoying seeing the possiblities though
I have! I think the key is to practice each hand individually. Plan ahead what your melody hand is going to do and practice that on its own over and over and over again. Then when you're ready to bring the bass hand back in, build up slowly, note by note, so that you can understand how the two hands interact with each other. Notice when both hands strike together, which hand plays after which, what the pattern feels like in your body, and over time it will come more naturally
Hi Amy, this is so helpful - thank you. There's months of practice in this video and as always, is accessible for beginner players like myself..... Much of the wonderful and generous online content focuses on rudiments, so this makes a helpful complement to remind ourselves why we've been drawn to the instrument in the first place. Heartfelt gratitude!
Thanks for your reflection Giles, I really appreciate it. I'm glad it's helpful. If you have any questions from the video feel free to bring them when we meet ☺️
You are really an inspiration, and rather easy to follow! I have wanted a handpan for years, and just got my very own rav drum. I will follow your instructions and see what I can come up with. I have just been trying to find what sounds good and then going with it, and maybe spicing it up every now and again. Trying different melodies, but I'm having a little bit of trouble with the percussion aspect of the instrument.
Practice makes improvement! 😝 The wonderful thing about the handpan is that it naturally encourages an equal use of the right and left hand. So definitely practice leading with both!
Marvelously informative since you're so good at modeling grooves and counting time while making the melody move in a particular direction and repeating patterns which is so influential to me as guitarist/composer looking for new ideas to adapt and your lively and melodic music is so pretty as well as captivating. Wonderfully insightful!
Thank you! I build the simple groove up from scratch in a play-along style tutorial here: th-cam.com/video/pimKOhFTRWA/w-d-xo.html I think that'd be a good place to start ☺️
This is awesome. I should get me a hand drum. Puts the whole drums and piano aspect together. Also, thanks again for playing my music (a few years back) when you had your online pod cast. Do you still do those?
Oh wow that would have been a good few years ago! I'm not running the podcast now, I briefly moved it over to TH-cam and I thought about relaunching the site recently but I don't have the creative energy...
Herzlichen Dank für das Wissen und deine Erfahrungen, dass du uns mit deinen Videos vermittelst. Für mich als Anfängerin sind sie sehr hilfreich. Ich kann zwar kein Englisch, aber mit der Übersetzung im Untertitel klappt es ganz gut. Auch dieses Video von dir scheint sehr interessant zu sein und ich wüsste zu gern, was du erklärst. Nur klappt es leider nicht mit der Übersetzung. Untertitel in Englisch funktioniert, aber eine Übersetzung in andere Sprachen ist nicht möglich. Ist das ein Einstellungsproblem? Wäre schön, wenn du helfen könntest. Vielen Dank im Voraus.
Hi Gabi, thank you for your lovely feedback! All subtitles are auto generated by TH-cam, I tried to see if I could add a translation for you but it doesn't seem possible. My eventual goal is to be able to hire someone to transcribe and translate for me, but I don't yet have the resources to do that. One day! Apologies that this video cannot be translated yet!
Hello Amy, i'm a huge fan of ur videos, specially the autopilot one. I have a D minor celtic D3- A3 Bb3 D4 E4 F4 G4 A4 D5. Can you help me finding the kords related to those notes, i ve never found them...
Thanks Samuel. Rather than try to explain in text, check out this great resource for finding the chords on your instrument. Make sure the scale is set to route note D, and "Amara" (same as Celtic) and then click on the chords tab. In the minor and major list, click a chord to see how it's played ☺️ handpaner.com/
I've never played one myself so I can't make a proper judgement, but I've heard from happy customers that they are. Most important thing is that you have listened to lots of different makers and you choose whichever sounds good to you ☺️
Hey Amy! Question for ya. When starting with a groove like you showed here, should I just practice the rhythm first until it’s internalized? I’m finding myself fumbling because maybe I don’t have the rhythm fully internalized so I lose the count in my head. So would it be best practice to internalize first or is it best practice to go ahead and incorporate notes and try and make melodies during the internalization process?
Great question! I find that if I work to make sure the rhythm is truly internalised first, then the adding of the notes comes much easier. So I would recommend practicing the rhythm more for sure. Practice with counting so that you can really feel on which count each strike is landing, and then practice just with feeling so you can naturally keep the time and then have brain space to think about moving your hands. But there is a balance too. If you wait too long before you add notes, you'll find yourself stuff in the rhythm and unsure of where to go next. So don't be afraid to add just a single note at a time very slowly as you start to build that inner timing
I've never played one myself but I have heard them. I personally prefer their tongue drums over their handpans, but again, I can't make a true judgement because I've never played one. Making the step from the rav to the handpan, it's definitely worth looking around and listening to lots of different makers before making a final decision ☺️
@@AmyNaylorMusic Genuinely the shapes and patterns make so much more sense to my brain. I basically entirely play bass with patterns and numbers. It takes effort to remember what all the notes are called. Might not be able to tell you what the 7th is in that chord off the top of my head, but I could find G# easy enough and then find the 7th through pattern recognition. I'm sure you get it as a guitarist and my explaining it is weird to another musician. But you know me. =P
Totally. I've memorised the names of chords on the guitar now, but associating them with shapes (makes me think of Phoebe from friends teaching guitar: "I call this the claw") and I have three handpans but it's only this one that I know all the note names off by heart. Again, repetition and pattern recognition. Ask me to play scales in the guitar and I know the basic shape of a major scale but it'd take a while to figure out what notes I'm playing. Unless it's C major. And I've been playing guitar since I can remember 🤣🤣
@@AmyNaylorMusic I wish I had been playing that long. Took me a while to find my place in music, but always had a love for it and a desire to play it. =] Glad I picked it up properly when I did. Though even earlier than that, I was already playing your handpan cousins, the steel pans. Miss them days, too. =D I just wasn't reallylearning and playing music in the way I always wanted to at that point. Was just rote memorisation and reading what was on a page. Only when I got to bass did I start actually, seriously, begin making my own music. and of course, the modular stuff has given me a whole new way of making it, too. and meant I got to know you. =D
Thank you! You are a first class teacher (and an adorable human being!).
So i finally found my theacher :) thanks a lot!
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing 👍😀
Thanks Nigel 🙌
thanx, you are a great teacher . So simple, whith feel.
Thank you Sandra
I'm so grateful for your videos too! 🙏❤ You're so loveable and talented! The world needs more people like you 🥰 Keep going and I wish you all the Best 🫂
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You are just brilliant!! Most, most helpful!! .... Got no excuse not to go to your jamming sessions! See you soon!
Haha yesss! Thank you
Great ideas/system! There's not enough out there on how to compose, but then again a lot is using these building blocks to unleash your own creativity.
Exactly! I try to make all my tutorials relevant to integrating into your own composition ideas, but it's often a tricky link to make!
sooooo good - you have very good way to teach - thanx a lot
Well done! Greetings from Dortmund
It would be helpful for us newbies if you mentioned the scale of your handpan. This will help in future selection of new handpans to have a wall of them as you have😊
Sure! This one is a D kurd. Almost every tutorial i have is with a d kurd, unless I say otherwise at the beginning of the video
What does kurd mean ?
thx Amy, one of the best vid from you 😊
Thanks so much!
How nice starting my day with coffee & great music lesson! Thank you Amy & have a great day.
Thanks Doran, glad you enjoyed it! Have a lovely day
WOW, I hope I will play like that when my pan comes in
Happy handpanning!
Thank u so much for the interesting lessons！
Thank you! I have fun making them 🥰
Amy, thanks and thanks again and again! Brilliant, inspirational and super didactic! You are our gift from the heavenly dimensions of harmony and peace! Keep sharing, honey, your useful and motivational videos, you are changing the world for the best through you kindness, talent and teachings! We study from you and together we are filling united, like one community in harmony of open heart culture.
Brotherly hug from all heart
this was such a helpful video! You have an approach that brings structure into playing but doesn't take out the intuitivity and the fun of it at the same time, thanks for everything that you share with us
Thank you rebeca 💚 big love to you!
Thanks a lot ❤
Thank you. Super 👍
🎼 This is great, thanks. Into the lesson file it goes.
🙏
Hi Amy, I always love ist, to see you and your nice teaching!! Thank you!
Thank you thank you!
This is awesome :) thanks 💓....”being able to decide when to stop” 😆😆😆 omg, i relate to this...I’ve been working on my first solo album for 10 years 😂 I think I am just beggining to be satisfied with my strikes... 🤣 now perhaps time
to compose some... thanks for the inspiration. Great lesson.
Hahaha, I've made albums that "don't count" because they're not... THE album yet, ya know? 🤣🤣 I feel you!
Love your lessons.. thank you
Thanks Peter
I just started playing. Other tutors simply play to fast!! With you I can simply start slowly, and learn. Its all about muscle memory. Thanks for your wonderful vids.
Glad it's helpful! Thanks
Brilliant explanation of how to compose - in 22 minutes ! Hope to meet you in person one day.
I hope so too! Thank you 🥰
Et voilà !
Love this. Thanks!
Thanks Steve!
You are fantastic 😘
You are so good at breaking down melodies and looking at them closely. I'm not used to that so it's cool to see things a different way!
Thanks Jon!
With this, I have more control and time to make choices of notes. I just practice on groove method now and moving forward slowly cuz I like surprises and Peter (@Handpan 360) told that, slow is fast.
Because of Peter I came to know about this timing unit box system. Thanks Peter (@Handpan 360)
Thank you Amy to show me ways to connect deeply to my handpan.
Thank you! Peter's a good guy 😊
Love it. 😊
you are greate
Thanks for this video!! I am a begginer and this is very helpfull🙏🙏🙏💚 i have a f low pigmy...it change somethings? I try....thanks!! Have a wonderful day! Greta
Thanks Greta. Yes, you have less notes than the pan I am using in this video, and it has a very different feel, but so beautiful too! I also have an F Pgymy that I have used in a couple of tutorial videos, maybe these will be useful for you
Great. Very clear, easy to understand. Thank you, Amy.
Cool, very clear and simple explanation 👌 love it!
Thank you! ☺️
have you ever taught anyone with co-ordination difficulties? I have dyspraxia the very common pattern you played around 16mins, I think i struggle having one hand doing one thing and the other coming in doing something different, might just be something I have to practice, enjoying seeing the possiblities though
I have! I think the key is to practice each hand individually. Plan ahead what your melody hand is going to do and practice that on its own over and over and over again. Then when you're ready to bring the bass hand back in, build up slowly, note by note, so that you can understand how the two hands interact with each other. Notice when both hands strike together, which hand plays after which, what the pattern feels like in your body, and over time it will come more naturally
Hi Amy, this is so helpful - thank you. There's months of practice in this video and as always, is accessible for beginner players like myself..... Much of the wonderful and generous online content focuses on rudiments, so this makes a helpful complement to remind ourselves why we've been drawn to the instrument in the first place. Heartfelt gratitude!
Thanks for your reflection Giles, I really appreciate it. I'm glad it's helpful. If you have any questions from the video feel free to bring them when we meet ☺️
Phantastic lesson!! Thank you !!!!!
You are really an inspiration, and rather easy to follow! I have wanted a handpan for years, and just got my very own rav drum. I will follow your instructions and see what I can come up with. I have just been trying to find what sounds good and then going with it, and maybe spicing it up every now and again. Trying different melodies, but I'm having a little bit of trouble with the percussion aspect of the instrument.
Sounds like you're on the perfect path. Welcome to the RAV community! 😁😁
Thank you for your lovely kind words 🥰
Hi Amy,
That's the kind of vid I need to watch 99 times and hopefully master its content at the 100th time.
Cherry : I'm left-handed.
Practice makes improvement! 😝
The wonderful thing about the handpan is that it naturally encourages an equal use of the right and left hand. So definitely practice leading with both!
Some great ideas here, and clearly explained too - thanks!
Thank you Kate!
Wow, I SO needed this video!!!! And right before our workshop too ❤️
Reading this right after our workshop! Haha, thanks Christine. Always appreciate your support
Marvelously informative since you're so good at modeling grooves and counting time while making the melody move in a particular direction and repeating patterns which is so influential to me as guitarist/composer looking for new ideas to adapt and your lively and melodic music is so pretty as well as captivating. Wonderfully insightful!
Thank you for that reflection! I really appreciate it. Glad that it is helpful in some way ☺️
This is great - I may have to back to some earlier lessons because my hands are too uncoordinated for even this basic groove! LOL Thank you so much!
Thank you!
I build the simple groove up from scratch in a play-along style tutorial here: th-cam.com/video/pimKOhFTRWA/w-d-xo.html I think that'd be a good place to start ☺️
Thank you so much. This is beautiful.
Thank you 💚
This is awesome. I should get me a hand drum. Puts the whole drums and piano aspect together. Also, thanks again for playing my music (a few years back) when you had your online pod cast. Do you still do those?
Oh wow that would have been a good few years ago! I'm not running the podcast now, I briefly moved it over to TH-cam and I thought about relaunching the site recently but I don't have the creative energy...
Thank You!👏🏼🙏🏻
🙏🙏
Thanks for this great music lesson! Is your handpan D Kurd 9? 🙏
Close! I got 3 bottom notes too. Thanks
Herzlichen Dank für das Wissen und deine Erfahrungen, dass du uns mit deinen Videos vermittelst. Für mich als Anfängerin sind sie sehr hilfreich. Ich kann zwar kein Englisch, aber mit der Übersetzung im Untertitel klappt es ganz gut. Auch dieses Video von dir scheint sehr interessant zu sein und ich wüsste zu gern, was du erklärst. Nur klappt es leider nicht mit der Übersetzung. Untertitel in Englisch funktioniert, aber eine Übersetzung in andere Sprachen ist nicht möglich. Ist das ein Einstellungsproblem? Wäre schön, wenn du helfen könntest. Vielen Dank im Voraus.
Hi Gabi, thank you for your lovely feedback!
All subtitles are auto generated by TH-cam, I tried to see if I could add a translation for you but it doesn't seem possible. My eventual goal is to be able to hire someone to transcribe and translate for me, but I don't yet have the resources to do that. One day! Apologies that this video cannot be translated yet!
Hello Amy, i'm a huge fan of ur videos, specially the autopilot one.
I have a D minor celtic D3- A3 Bb3 D4 E4 F4 G4 A4 D5. Can you help me finding the kords related to those notes, i ve never found them...
Thanks Samuel. Rather than try to explain in text, check out this great resource for finding the chords on your instrument.
Make sure the scale is set to route note D, and "Amara" (same as Celtic) and then click on the chords tab. In the minor and major list, click a chord to see how it's played ☺️
handpaner.com/
😍😍🤩
Hi Amy! I’m learning 🤚pan and I find your leasing super useful.
Do you have patreon?
Thank you!! I'm glad you're finding the videos helpful 🥰
I do have Patreon, you can find me here: www.patreon.com/amynaylormusic
Amy, beginning with handpan and was going to start with an Acolye instrument. Is this good handpan maker?
I've never played one myself so I can't make a proper judgement, but I've heard from happy customers that they are. Most important thing is that you have listened to lots of different makers and you choose whichever sounds good to you ☺️
Hey Amy! Question for ya. When starting with a groove like you showed here, should I just practice the rhythm first until it’s internalized? I’m finding myself fumbling because maybe I don’t have the rhythm fully internalized so I lose the count in my head. So would it be best practice to internalize first or is it best practice to go ahead and incorporate notes and try and make melodies during the internalization process?
Great question! I find that if I work to make sure the rhythm is truly internalised first, then the adding of the notes comes much easier. So I would recommend practicing the rhythm more for sure. Practice with counting so that you can really feel on which count each strike is landing, and then practice just with feeling so you can naturally keep the time and then have brain space to think about moving your hands. But there is a balance too. If you wait too long before you add notes, you'll find yourself stuff in the rhythm and unsure of where to go next. So don't be afraid to add just a single note at a time very slowly as you start to build that inner timing
what type of hand pan is that ?
Heeeey. I have a rav vast and am thinking of a rav vast pan? Do you know of them?
I've never played one myself but I have heard them. I personally prefer their tongue drums over their handpans, but again, I can't make a true judgement because I've never played one. Making the step from the rav to the handpan, it's definitely worth looking around and listening to lots of different makers before making a final decision ☺️
Talking in shapes. My kinda style. What is a G#m7b5 anyways? Sounds made up. =D
😝😝 "if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid" or "if it sounds good, it is good". Who needs to name it? 🤷
@@AmyNaylorMusic Genuinely the shapes and patterns make so much more sense to my brain. I basically entirely play bass with patterns and numbers. It takes effort to remember what all the notes are called. Might not be able to tell you what the 7th is in that chord off the top of my head, but I could find G# easy enough and then find the 7th through pattern recognition.
I'm sure you get it as a guitarist and my explaining it is weird to another musician. But you know me. =P
Totally. I've memorised the names of chords on the guitar now, but associating them with shapes (makes me think of Phoebe from friends teaching guitar: "I call this the claw") and I have three handpans but it's only this one that I know all the note names off by heart. Again, repetition and pattern recognition.
Ask me to play scales in the guitar and I know the basic shape of a major scale but it'd take a while to figure out what notes I'm playing. Unless it's C major. And I've been playing guitar since I can remember 🤣🤣
@@AmyNaylorMusic I wish I had been playing that long. Took me a while to find my place in music, but always had a love for it and a desire to play it. =] Glad I picked it up properly when I did. Though even earlier than that, I was already playing your handpan cousins, the steel pans. Miss them days, too. =D I just wasn't reallylearning and playing music in the way I always wanted to at that point. Was just rote memorisation and reading what was on a page. Only when I got to bass did I start actually, seriously, begin making my own music. and of course, the modular stuff has given me a whole new way of making it, too. and meant I got to know you. =D
Handpan parents the steel pans are! 😜 Us handpan players owe a lot to the steel pan community