How to Play the Jaw Harp (STEP BY STEP) for Kids, Teachers and everyone else!

Here are four simple steps to jaw harp nirvana with acclaimed performer and teaching artist Dave Ruch!

If you've ever tried the jaw harp and not been able to make a sound, or you've got a new harp and you're ready to dig in for the first time, this is the video for you.

0:00 Intro/Who This Video is For
0:53 How to Use This Video
1:15 Don't Have a Harp?
1:46 The Hardest Part!
2:30 Parts of the Harp
3:05 How to Hold the Jaw Harp
3:48 Bringing the Harp to the Mouth
4:26 Positioning the Harp in the Mouth
5:23 Make Your First Sound!
5:52 Troubleshooting
7:24 Make the Harp Louder
8:15 Let's Play Four Notes
9:18 Playing Different Notes (and the Drone)
11:21 Your First Song!
12:28 Name That Tune
13:00 Feeling Lost?
13:30 Your Second Song!
13:40 Pulling vs Pushing The Lever
14:01 Your Second Song (con't)

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ABOUT THE ARTIST: Dave Ruch is a full-time performer and researcher of historical and traditional music whose work has been featured on American Public Media, in Emmy Award-winning documentaries, and on stages across North America and the U.K.

With expert musicianship and a warm, effortless style, he delights audiences of school children and adults with authentic songs and stories from the people who built and settled our communities.

Dave finds his song material in dusty archives, obscure songbooks, diaries, old field recordings, scholarly journals and sometimes from his own children, and brings these gems to life with great skill on banjo, guitar, mandolin, octave mandolin, bones, spoons, washboard and jaw harp.

More information at https://daveruch.com/