By Anne Sullivan 

Sightreading is the easiest thing to practice. 

Sight reading is also the hardest thing to practice. The difficulty is that just sight reading a piece may be valuable sight reading...

By Anne Sullivan 

Do you remember when you were first learning to read music? Your teacher had you learn the lines and spaces on the staff. It felt strange for a while, but soon it became second natu...

By Anne Sullivan 

Believe it or not, successful sight reading is less about the notes than about the timing. One proof of this is that traditional sight reading tests given as part of music examinati...

By Anne Sullivan 

You may think sight reading doesn’t have much to do with your technique. But here’s the simple fact: you can't sight read a passage fluently if you can't play it. Your technique nee...

By Anne Sullivan 

You’ve heard about opportunity knocking. It’s not just a saying, it happens. I know because it’s happened to me, and I see opportunity come along for harpists every day. When opport...

By Anne Sullivan  

Are you a high school junior or senior getting ready to seriously consider a college choice? Maybe you’re not quite at that stage yet, but you’re starting to think ahead and dream ...

By Anne Sullivan 

You can only do so much in a day.

You’ve got school, sports, homework and that’s just the beginning. Your days are jam-packed already, and you haven’t even found time to practice. ...

By Anne Sullivan 

In September when it feels like you have a fresh start on everything else, you might want to try a fresh start with your harp studies as well. Of course, there is always plenty of n...

“What did you do this summer?”

That’s the traditional “first day of school” question. It used to be the first school assignment of the year, too, to write an essay about what you did during the summe...

By Anne Sullivan 

Let’s review what we've done so far in our “How to Arrange Anything” series.

• We started by identifying the structure of the piece: the introduction, the verses, the chorus, the c...

By Anne Sullivan

Your arrangement starts with finding the basic structure, the outline of the piece. That’s what I described in last week’s blog. If you played that basic structure, it should sound l...

By Anne Sullivan 

Are you ready to try your hand at arranging your favorite song?

Maybe you’ve already tried arranging, and although you’re pleased with the results, you wonder if you could have mad...