Edition Dux The Handpan Book (English Edition)

Handpans were developed only recently, but nevertheless already enjoy great popularity. Together with their exceptionally soft, delicate sound and intuitive way of playing, their popularity is growing more and more, which is why Daniel Giordani offers with this textbook an easy-to-understand school that allows all interested parties to quickly enter the world of handpan playing. Even advanced players will find that "The Handpan Book" offers them the opportunity to further develop their playing in the areas of chords, cross rhythms and double beats. Numerous exercises that teach the various playing techniques provide hands-on learning, and the seven included practice pieces are already suitable as material for the first performances.

With online videos.

Daniel Giordani, percussionist, handpan player, rhythm educator, and author of several rhythm books, acquired extensive knowledge of the diverse world of percussion music styles through many research and study trips to West Africa, India, and Central America. He discovered his passion for the handpan, which he hereby wishes to share and pass on.

Contents:

• 1. INTRODUCTION
• The history or the instrument
• From the Hang® to the handpan
• About the book
• Learning with musical notation or playing freely
• 2. GETTING TO KNOW THE INSTRUMENT
• Sitting positions
• Notation
• The first sounds or the central tone field
• The deep bass sound in the central tone field
• The high percussive sound at the edge or the central tone field
• The outer tone fields
• The thumb playing technique for the low notes 1 - 3
• The index finger playing technique from tone field 4
• 3. THE FIRST EXERCISE SEQUENCES
• Exercise sequence 1
• Exercise sequence 2
• Exercise sequence 3
• Exercise sequence 4
• Exercise sequence 5
• Exercise sequence 6
• Exercise sequence 7
• Exercise sequence 8
• Exercise sequence 9
• Exercise sequence 10
• 4. CHANGING SIDES
• 5. AFRO GROOVES
• 6. ORIENTAL GROOVES
• 7. ROCK AND POP GROOVES
• 8. PLAYING WITH TAPS
• Rock grooves with slow taps
• Slow fill-ins
• Rock grooves with fast taps
• Fast fill-ins
• 9. HIP-HOP GROOVES
• Tricky fill-ins
• 10. DOUBLE STROKES
• Double strokes with the thumb and index finger
• 11. INDEPENDENCE EXERCISES
• 12. PLAYING CHORDS
• 13. THE SLAP STROKE
• 14. 2 AGAINST 3 or 3 AGAINST 4
• 15. CLIMBING STAIRS
• 16. DAMPENED SOUNDS
• 17. FINDING AN ENDING
• 18. PRACTICE PIECES
• 1. A NEW BEGINNING
• 2. INNER VOICE
• 3. GO WITH THE FLOW
• 4. WAITING FOR YOU
• 5. DEEP BREATH
• 6. ayina (for advanced players)
• 7. SPREAD BY THE WIND (for advanced players)
• APPENDICES
• Some common Handpan scales
• Notation symbols
• List or videos