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Handpan Masterclass

Multi-Fingerstyle for Advanced Players

Instrumentation: Handpan

“Handpan Masterclass – Multi-Fingerstyle for Advanced Players” by Daniel Giordani is aimed at all handpan players who want to expand their repertoire and take their playing technique to a new level. The description of special hand and finger techniques enables you to learn many new special sounds using fingernails, knuckles or the palm. Based on finger techniques from Indian and Arabic drums, this guide can help you develop a more complex handpan playing approach.

The book, with more than 140 pages and 76 video links, is designed as a progressive course that gently introduces, step by step, more complex movements such as split-hand, fingerflip rolls, ornamentations, flams and tremolos. Numerous grooves and exercises make learning the techniques enjoyable and exciting. A specially developed system of notation symbols makes the new sounds and techniques easy to understand and apply.

The online videos help to illustrate the many exercises and make them easy to follow. Daniel Giordani emphasises a relaxed and playful approach, where technique always serves as a means to expressive playing. A short video introduction to the book can be found at: https://vimeo.com/1195908948/4834b75dd1

Contents:

• Special sounds - various Taks and Dums
• Effects such as wah-wah or superbass
• New striking techniques such as snaps and flicks
• Thumb split-hand
• Indian split-hand
• Finger flips
• Grooves and fills
• Ornamentations, flams and tremolos
• Polyrhythms