Video Confident: Empowering Tips for Frustration-Free Video Creation - PHH 112

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Welcome to the Practicing Harp Happiness Podcast. I'm Ann Sullivan, a harpist on a mission to empower every harpist to experience more harp happiness. Over my decades long harp journey, I've had lots of successes and more than a few failures. And I know firsthand what it's like to feel that playing the harp the way you want me may not be possible for you. Now, I play and teach all over the world, and I know what most harpists are never taught the secrets to gaining the skills and confidence you need to play the harp with beauty, freedom and joy. That's what the Practicing Harp Happiness Podcast is all about. Showing you simple steps to help you play the music you want the way you want. If you're an experienced harpist looking for that next level, or a harp newbie anxious to avoid the pitfalls, or a harpist who just wants more fulfillment and a little encouragement, you're in the right place, my friend. So let's get started. Welcome to the show. If you're finally ready to think about making videos of yourself playing the harp, all I can say is welcome to the party. You may have been one of the reluctant ones thinking the technology was going to be too daunting, or maybe your barrier to entry has been the fact that you just weren't ready until now, that is to share your music on that wild, wide open world wide web. Possibly you were one of those who found the idea of making videos intriguing, but when it came down to actually doing it, you found the process surprisingly difficult. What I'd like to do in this podcast episode is to help you through the challenges of making videos of yourself. While I'll touch on a couple of tech related topics, our focus today is really going to be you, what you need to do to prepare you and your music for making a video or even just an audio recording. I've made numerous CDs myself, and obviously I do a lot of video too, and I learned mostly the hard way what works, how prepared you need to be, how to keep your expectations reasonable, and how to ensure that you finish the process with a video that you actually feel proud of. If you haven't made videos yet, but would like to, or you've tried and thought it was too hard for you, this information I'm going to share today will change the game for you. Trust me, you can do this. On the other hand, if you're already an old hand at video, I have some tips that may make your process simpler or less time consuming, plus I will point you to some excellent examples of everyday harpists, not the superstars you may be thinking of who are doing great things with video in different ways. I want you to leave today's episode feeling inspired and excited about making videos. Why? Because it really can be fun. Really? Now, because we're talking all things recording today, I wanted to mention just a couple of things. I have a brand new Spotify artist channel. So Spotify is all about recordings, things to listen to, right? And so many of the the tracks from my CDs are available on my Spotify channel as well as some of the things that I have posted in other places. We've brought it all together so you can add those Spotify things to your own playlist as well. If you are a Spotify fan and I'd love it if you are Spotify user, be sure to become one of my monthly listeners so that we can have more ways to share what we do here at Harp Mastery and what I do with my harp with you. So I will point you to that and you'll find a link to that in the show notes. And because recording takes a certain amount of courage, I have linked to a blog post I wrote quite a while back called Beyond Daily Acts of Harp Courage and they might inspire you. So I urge you to give that a read as well. I also wanted to say thank you for everybody who participated in our practice summer Sizzler camp. So if you haven't heard or if you didn't remember, we have three summer Sizzler camps happening this year. They're happening in the next few weeks actually and they are all 90 minute workshops and they've got a real fun twist. So it's a real summer camp sort of experience. We have, oh, we've got circle time, we've got a campfire song, we've got a game and a craft and all that sort of thing. And there are three of them. Practice camp was the first one. We have technique camp coming up very soon and that's going to be not about technical drill because who wants to do more drill in the summer, but it's about how to use your technique practice practice to solve problems in your music. We're going to be working with some practical application here and of course strengthening your technique. And then there's one more practice camp coming up at the beginning of August and that, oh, it's not a practice camp, it's a Sizzler camp. And that will be a finish camp about taking your music from that messy middle stage to get it to that finished playing stage. So it Actually sounds like music. Now, I know practice camp has already happened, but the recordings are there and they're available for you. So if you're interested in attending one of the camps coming up, go ahead and and do that. You'll find that under events, Upcoming Events on the Heart Mastery website. Um, and if you want to do practice camp, you can still do that. You won't be on the calls live, but the recording from both of the practice camp calls that we did, those recordings are there, and they're posted, and all the information, the PDF, the whole thing, everything's there for you. And so you can still access practice camp, um, but I'd love to have you on, well, both of the other two calls. So do check that out. It was just a lot of fun. We had a really good time with it. So those are the summer Sizzler camps. You'll find them on the Heart Mastery page under upcoming events. And I certainly hope to see you there. But it's time to talk video. And I want to start with the most important question of all, which is, why would you want to do video? Lots of times when we think of harp videos, we think of, oh, gosh, I have to post on YouTube. I have to. It's going to be public. People are going to be listening to me. And certainly you can do videos for public consumption, but that's just one avenue. And even there, there are lots of different ways to do that, right? You can have a regular YouTube channel. You can just post stuff every once in a while. You could post on Facebook, you could post on Instagram. You could do any number of things with videos if you had videos you were happy with. Now, another good reason to do videos is that if you're playing a piece and you've learned it and you feel really proud of it, you don't have to have a public performance. But wouldn't it be great to have a video of yourself playing the piece that you could share with family members or friends who aren't perhaps living nearby? Right. You could say, hey, mom, here it is. Listen to me. This is what I've been doing. And it's nice to have to be able to share that way just with people who are close to you, or even just to have a record of it for yourself, like, oh, look, here's a piece that I learned. But of course, making videos. Videos can also be a practice tool.

When we're busy playing the harp, we don't always have the.

Second set of ears that listens the way a listener would. And and there are so many things that we could discover about our playing, what needs correction, but also what we're really doing well, we could learn a lot through video. So that can be a hard way to do it, to think, okay, I'm making this video and I'm going to have to watch it. And it may have flaws, and I may not like it very much, but that's where the learning comes in. And the nice thing about doing videos for learning, that we're not worried about perfection. We don't necessarily expect them to be perfect. We're looking for what we're doing well and what we can improve. So there are a few good ways, a few good reasons to make videos, but you have to be able to actually make the video. And I know there are lots and lots of places you can go to find out what microphone to use or how you should set it up. But I want to make that setup easy for you. The fact is, whatever device you have is probably capable of making a decent video, whether it's your cell phone or your computer or your iPad. There's probably some device that you have that already has a camera and a microphone, and that's all you need. You don't have to worry about a specific microphone, a specific camera, or the best lighting. I mean, you've been on YouTube, you see some videos that are just beautifully produced and all kinds of special effects and all sorts of things, and they look beautiful, and the camera's changing angles and all this stuff. But then you see the other videos there, too, right? The ones that are clearly somebody who set up their cell phone in their room at home and they've made their own video, and those are okay, too. You don't have to go for the highest production value. And frankly, if you're just starting out in video, that's not where you want to put your attention. Because the hardest part of making a video is not the video part itself. It's not the microphone or the lights or the setup, although that can be sort of daunting. The hardest part of making a video is playing it. And that's where we're going to talk a lot today. We're going to spend quite a bit of time talking about how you need to set yourself up to do this. Right. So I want to kind of gloss over the technical setup here for just a moment and answer some of what I think are going to be your most pressing questions about how to set things up. And then we're going to talk about the real meat of the issue. Which is when you get in front of the camera. What I'd like you to do, if this is your first time out with video, is to not stress about the technology. Use the devices you have. Like I just mentioned a moment ago, use the lighting that's in the room. Let's not get fancy, just see what works. Lots of times the cameras on these devices are so sophisticated that they'll make sure that you have the right lighting, or what they think anyway is the right lighting for you. So if you have good lighting in your room, then just leave it that way and see what the camera will see, see what it will do for you.

Use the devices you have. Don't worry about how you're going to set things up. Don't think you need to invest in fancy stuff. You don't need a tripod for your camera. Whatever it is you're gonna use, set it up on a desk, prop it up on books. If you have to. Use a music stand, that can sometimes work very well. Um, so you know, you know how to take photos and videos with your cell phone. Probably. This is all you're doing, same kind of thing. And if you use that front facing camera, you can, you know, see what it looks like before you start. So what I'm suggesting is that you take the, the device that you have, go to your harp room, sit at your harp, find a way to set that device up so that it can see you and then just play around with it. Take, you know, take a couple little videos. You don't even have to play on them. Just sort of sit there and play a little bit or, or look like you're playing and look at the video that you get. You only need a few seconds, but check and see if there's something you would change. Now, a lot of people have different ideas about the angle of the camera. Do I want it on the music stand side? Do I want to get artistic and put it so that it's looking through the strings? Do I want it up high? Do I want it down low? You know, there's no one right angle. You pick one that works for you. You might find that it's easiest for you to play if you're not seeing the camera. But most people will want, if they're looking at the video, they're going to want to see your face and your hands and, you know, so they're going to want to see some of that. So give them a nice picture the way you would want to see a harpist if you went to a concert. Or were looking at a video. So just, you know, see what kind of angle you can get. But you can see that this is going to require a little bit of experimentation. So before you even think about actually recording a video, you're going to want to spend some time playing with this and setting it up. Now, if you come up with the perfect setup and you think, wow, when my harp is here and my camera is here and these lights are on, then make a note of it, you know, to put some tape on the floor where you place the camera or, or take a photo of your setup so that you can see what it, what it looked like. Write a little description for yourself, anything so you don't have to reinvent the wheel when you come back to make a video. I will tell you, playing on the video is hard enough even if you're just using it for practice. So playing is hard. You don't want to be fretting with the setup at the same time. So, you know, do your own setup well ahead of time so that you know that when you're ready to record, this is what you're going to use. This is how you're going to do it. So let's do that ahead of time. Now, that's as involved as I want to be about the technology today. I don't want to get more detailed with it because I don't want you to get stuck in the technology loop. This is about playing. If you're ready to make a video, it means you want to share your music or you want to archive it, or you want to use it for practice tool, but you want to get to the recording. You don't want to, you know, to geek out over the technology. So if you continue to make videos, if this turns into, you know, oh, wow, this is my weekly show now. I've got, got this. Well, then you might want upgrade your videos a little bit and you might think about moving to that next level of equipment. But you know what, A lot of the professional podcasters and vloggers and all those kinds of people, they use the same kind of equipment I'm recommending to you. They use the stuff they've already got, and it works just fine. So start with what you have, but experiment with the setup, find what you like, take a bunch of little test videos until you're happy with it.

And then it comes down to the actual playing. Okay, this is the hard part. We know that. So I have some really, really golden tips for you. What you need to realize is that making a video A video that you're going to, you know, send to someone, right, that somebody is going to watch. Making a video is every bit as hard as a performance. The moment you turn that camera on, your nerves start reacting. They may not go into high gear, but we know the camera's watching. We know that this is not just a normal playthrough of the piece and the adrenaline kicks in. It's really kind of funny when you think about it, because nobody's watching. And whatever happens in that moment, you can delete it, right? It's not forever until you send it out there. And even then you can always delete it and do it over. So our nerves are going to kick in so that we're distracted. And especially if you're doing the videoing yourself, which.

I kind of recommend, and I'll talk about that in a moment. But your. You're doing a bunch of stuff. You're distracted, you're turning on the camera, you've got everything set up, and then you come back over to your harp and you're, you're ready to play. And you've got to take a moment to focus. Just because the camera is on doesn't mean you have to start right then. You know, back in the very old days, if you know somebody was filming you, they were actually filming you and you were going to use up film. So if you just sat there after they turned the camera on and you got your thoughts together and you contemplated and you remembered how the piece started and you calmed yourself down and got ready to start, you were wasting film.

This doesn't happen now, right? We can delete it. We're not using a finite resource. I mean, eventually our camera will run out of memory, but it's not going to run out of memory that fast. So, you know, you can sit there after you've turned the camera on and collect your thoughts before you start. Do not hit that record button, dash to the harp and then start to play. Nobody's asking you to do that. Nobody's expecting that. You, your camera's on, it doesn't care. So give yourself a moment and prepare yourself for what you need to play. That will help relieve some of that. But really what we're talking about is when you're going to do this video, you need to set yourself up by managing your expectations, practicing with the camera and then creating wins. So let's take them in that order to manage your expectations. You know, at least you know now that you're going to be a little bit on edge, that adrenaline is going to have kicked in for this video. And so you won't be playing with the same level of comfort that you do in your practice room when nobody's watching. And so what you're going to play is. May not go quite as well as you're used to having it go. That's okay. You'll still be able to do a video you're happy with, but it's going to take a little bit of getting used to things. And these first few videos that you do, I'm going to suggest that you start with something very, very short. Because when you watch it, it's going to look different than you think. Almost everybody comes out of watching their first video with, is that what I look like when I play? That's okay. I remember being at a playing for a school concert once and one of the little children and child was pretty little, came up to me afterwards and said that I looked like a robot when I played. I thought, oh, okay, I, you know that that was what they thought. Okay, that's fine. But whatever it is, it's going to look different, you think? And it's going to sound different than you think. The sound of the harp is going to be different. Even if the equipment you were using was top notch equipment.

It will still sound different than you think. Because where you're sitting at the harp is a different sound than the sound that goes out from your harp to somebody else. It's like listening to yourself on an audio recording, right? You sound different in your head than you do on the recording. So it's worth preparing yourself for that, knowing that that is true and not getting hung up on any of those things. You know, if you watch your first practice recording and you realize, oh wow, look at that, I'm chewing on my lip the whole time. That could be a habit that you want to change.

But if it's just, wow, I didn't know my nose was so big then, you know, we let it go.

Don't make the fact that it looks or sounds a little bit different than you expected, make you rethink your whole setup and your whole equipment thing. Go with what you've got, that's fine. But you need to just start relaxing into the way it sounds and the way it looks. Be a little bit non judgmental, right? Or maybe a lot non judgmental. Change what you can easily change and then let the rest go.

I promise you that all those other harpists that are out there on YouTube, they don't look or sound the way they think either People who have done it a lot get used to it.

But it's different. So expect that. And then you'll be a little bit more at ease with it. But you do need to spend some time practicing with the camera.

Because you've got your setup. Okay, you've got that figured out, but then actually playing is something different. So I suggest you take a very short piece. I mean, like a two liner, something that's very short and very simple. I want you to turn your camera on and then play the piece three times without stopping the camera in between. Just because the piece is so short. Record it three times in a row then. And I know this is hard. After you've done that, watch the recording.

And I would like you to have a piece of paper with two columns on it while you watch the recording so that you can make notes of what you like about it and what you didn't like. I know there are going to be things you don't like, but let's think about what you do like and what you can fix. Let's make those the columns. What you like about your recording might be that it was short, okay, but what you liked about it, the lighting was okay, the harp sounds nice. And then what you can fix. Oh, I should have moved the light. I didn't realize I was backlit. And that doesn't really look so good. Or I need to move the microphone closer or that turned out to be a. Not the right angle. Or, you know, whatever it is, there are things you can fix. And maybe what you can fix is, oh, I didn't realize I was taking so much time between measure three and measure four. That could be too. You get to fix those as well. But so take that very short piece, play it three times, and then watch the recording. Make your notes. It might be interesting if you had a little notebook, you know, I don't know, a spiral bound notebook or something, and put those two columns on it and keep that as a little recording journal so that, you know, you can make notes of. Okay, here's the equipment I used. Here's the day, here's the date, and here's what I played. Here's what I liked about it, here's what I didn't.

And I suggest that you do a number of days of practice runs with the camera. They don't all have to be right in a row. I mean, unless you have a timeline for your project, there's, you know, there's no value in rushing through this. So you could do some, you know, do some Videos today, do some videos in a couple more days. You don't have to create stress and pressure around this. You can let it be part of your regular learning.

Okay, so the third part of this process is that we really do need to create some wins. So when you're ready to say, okay, I'm going to get off this practice recording thing, then let's take a short piece. It doesn't have to be a two liner this time, but nothing more than a one pager.

And let's do a real recording. A real recording is one where you've set up your camera and you're going to do one take at a time. You're going to stop the camera in between takes and you're going to approach this with the idea that one of these takes is going to be a keeper video. Right. We want one of these takes, if at all possible, and it might not be. And that we'll, we'll talk about that too. But we want one of these takes to be that keeper take. You're looking for the one that you can send to mom or the one that you can send to your, you know, your sick friend, or the, the one that you can post on Facebook and say, look, look what I did. Which would be terrific, wouldn't it? Wouldn't that be great? So we want that keeper video. So you're going to, going to record that piece and you're going to do it three times. You're going to stop in between takes.

The key here is to limit the number of times that you're going to try this piece in any given session. And I'm asking you to be absolutely firm with yourself about this because it will save you endless frustration and it'll keep your hair in your head. Let me tell you what I mean. With recording, we often fall into the same trap that we sometimes do when we're practicing and we're trying to fix one of those trouble spots. Oh, let me just do it once more. Let me do it once more. This will be the time. This will be the time. It sounds like, you know, the, the desperation of a, of a, an addicted gambler or something, right? I'll just do it this one more time. It'll be that, that's it, and then it'll be done. So what happens with recording is we record it the first time and we say, okay, well, that was the first time and I'm going to, I'll do it a couple more times and it'll get better. And it probably does. There are some things that go better. There are a couple things that you think, oh, man, I screwed up that last note, or I made that noise with my pedal or whatever. And I will tell you right now that you're going to notice those things a lot more than you usually do. Why? Because we treat video like a performance. Our nerves are in high gear, which means that we are hyper listening. Our listening is much more acute when we're nervous. And so you're going to hear things that never would have bothered you usually. You're going to hear every buzz, you're going to hear every squeak of your chair, and if your chair is squeaking, well, you can try swapping it out. And that this is something that you've learned. So that's not a bad thing. But you know, you're going to hear every single little noise and. And your nerves are going to be on edge just a little bit. So as you start recording, it's going to go better for a while, and then you're going to get pickier and pickier and stuff is going to start going wrong, and you will have passed the point of diminishing returns. You're into diminishing returns now. It's getting worse and worse. And that's when you start pulling your hair out and you think, why am I doing this anyway? So my best advice, what I tell all my students, including you, and what I do myself, is you've got to give yourself a limit going in of how many takes you're going to do before you quit for the day. Doesn't mean you have to quit forever, and it doesn't mean you're a failure. If you don't get a take you want, you can come back and do this again, Right? So. So what I want you to do, I love starting with three takes. Say, all right, I'm going to get in there and I'm going to do it once, and then I'm going to do it again, and then I'm going to do it a third time, and then I'm done for today.

Because I don't want to get into that, oh, let me just try it one more time. Let me try it one more time. Let me try it one more time. I've worked with recording engineers who would, you know, who'd say, oh, that's so close. Can you do it once more? And most of the time I'd go ahead and I'd go in and do it once more. But there would be a moment where both of us would know that there was no point in My doing another take.

My lack of energy was coming across through the microphone. Now, that's a more extreme case than you're using likely to get into. But do your three takes and then call it quits for the day.

Now what you can do with those three takes is watch them and choose the one that you like best.

And save that one.

Go ahead and delete the other two if you want and then. But set that next day I'm going to come back, okay, today's Tuesday and I did my first three takes. I'm going to come back on Friday and I'm going to do three more. Or you could do five more or you could do seven more, but let's not go more than that because it's hard work, it takes a lot of energy. And the worst thing is getting close to the end of what is a really good take. And the doorbell rings or your phone buzzes because you forgot to turn it off, or somebody knocks at the door or the cat meows or something. And that's gonna happen. So let's not put all our recording eggs on one recording day. Spread them out a little bit so that, okay, I'm gonna do some takes today, I'm gonna do some takes on another day and set up three or four sessions for yourself, always choosing the best recording and ditching the others.

I promise that it will get easier to watch the recordings of yourself. The more you do.

Might never be your favorite thing to do. That's okay, but it will get easier. Pretend you're watching somebody else. Be a little bit, A little bit more objective about it. What did that person do? Oh, that sounded pretty nice. Oh, that, that wasn't what they wanted to do, you know, be third personish about it. That will help. So let's review what we've talked about so far. When you're. When you have decided that it's going to be time to record, the first thing you're going to do is figure out the easiest setup for your technology that you can work with what you've got, set it up where you're comfortable and do some test runs. You don't even have to be playing for these, but you might want to. But just to see what setup looks like, see what the camera sees, watch it, see what you need to change, see if there's an angle you want to fix a little bit, but just tweak it. And then when you've got the setup the way you want it, document it so that you can repeat it whenever you want to record. Know where you've put what and how you've done it so you don't have to invent this whole system all over again.

Then you're going to do your very beginning test recordings. You're going to do a very short piece, like a little two line thing just to test what happens. You're going to see, you're going to do those three takes right in a row just to see what's going on. You're going to record your results on that piece of paper. You're going to write them down, what you like, what you want to fix. Remembering to be very objective, to manage your expectations. It's not going to be perfect. You might not get a recording that's note perfect. And you know what, that's still okay. The recordings, I guarantee the recordings that you're watching on YouTube that you think are note perfect probably aren't. So that's okay. But you know you're doing your thing and let that be good enough because people are going to like it. Anybody you want to share it with is going to enjoy it. So let's manage those expectations, all right? Don't set the bar so high that you can't get there. And then let's create some wins by starting your real recording process with a pretty short piece. You'll find that that 30 second piece feels a lot longer when you're videoing it. You'll stop between takes. You'll do your real recordings, you'll save your recordings. You'll do multiple days with only a few takes on one day, three takes on a day. If you really can't limit yourself to three, do five. But don't do more than that. Set that limit and be firm with yourself. You will save your energy and you'll keep yourself from getting frustrated in this process. Now, what I didn't touch on for a good reason, I think, is anything to do with video editing. Now, depending on your own level of tech savviness, it's not at all difficult to stitch together two recordings and you know, it'll look like it has a little tiny glitch in the middle. It's very difficult with harp music though, because the sound rings through. And so trying to stitch two recordings together can be really difficult because you're going to hear it as well as see it. So I would suggest that for right now, when you're making your first forays into video, you don't worry about the editing. Do your takes, start to finish.

If you have a friend, a teenager around, somebody who just loves to edit videos, then what you can do is with your multiple takes of videos, they might be able to take some of this one and some of that one and mash them together. But what I really wanted to talk about today was not the ins and outs of video editing, because that's a huge subject, and it's not one that I'm expert at. I mean, I have done it for sure, but, you know, we're not talking about doing that kind of stuff, right? We're talking about starting out in video, and we've got to start out easy. And that my real message for you, you can make video easy for yourself if you understand what's hard about it, because it's not the technology, it's the playing. And prepare yourself for that and allow it to be a little bit difficult and uncomfortable, and you'll be fine.

Now, I promised early on that I would talk about some harpists who were doing really good things with video. And not the, you know, not the superstars, not the big YouTubers, but, you know, regular harp people who were doing great things with video.

And I'm thinking about some students I have who have started making videos that they share with their friends. I have one student, Carol, who's really excellent at making sure that she shares her playing over video. She does some live. She'll do some. Some zoom calls for her friends, which is just really, really cool, and play over those. So she does little zoom recitals of music that she's working on. And it's not because she wants the attention of the world. It's because she wants to be able to share things with her friends. I think that's fabulous. I have quite a number of students who use video for their own archival and instruction purposes. They find that video is so helpful for.

Showing them what they need to improve. And so while they're. They never want to post the video, they're using it to, you know, really say, oh, wow, look what I did, and look how I've improved. You know, when I was making a video of this piece two months ago, it sounded like this. But when I took it back out, took the piece back out, and I videoed it today. Listen to how it sounds. Look at it. It's just. It's different. So you can see your growth. You can do it for archival purposes. And then I also wanted to share. I didn't ask permission to do this, but it's public, so I think it's fine. One of my former Gold Circle students, Pam Winteroth, has a Facebook page called Harp Serenity. And you can find that Harp Serenity. And it's been her practice to post a video on her Facebook page every week. And it's a wonderful discipline. I really admire the discipline of, you know, getting that video done, getting it, getting it posted. And she hasn't. She. She has done this partly because she's sharing music that's important to her, but part of it was for the discipline she knew she was going to, you know, she's going to have a piece ready to get out there. And so I would urge you to take a look at her Facebook page. Pem winteroth It's Harp Serenity on Facebook. And, you know, it's a wonderful example of what you can do with video when you're not out there to be, you know, a superstar. You're just out there to, to do something meaningful to you and something that, by the way, becomes very meaningful to others. So, you know, there are just some things you can do with video, and I hope that that's given you some, some encouragement, some ideas, and hopefully some really good advice. If you walk away from this podcast with nothing else, I would want it to be that you're going to try a video and you're going to remember not to do more than three takes in one shot.

That will, that'll be great. It'll be moving in the right direction, but without stressing out about it at the same time. So onward with video, my friends. I hope you are ready to do that. Now, let me tell you a little bit more about what's coming up here on the podcast. Next week is all about hands together playing. Putting hands together is one of those things that is always, always a struggle, especially early on in harp playing. And the sooner we can feel comfortable playing hands together, the quicker we can advance and play all the good stuff. So we're going to be talking about what hands together playing is and how to get there some ways, some specific ways to put a piece or a passage that won't go hands together, how to get it to go hands together and how to. How not to do it. Because there are some pretty common ways to approach hands together playing that are just, I think, the absolute wrong ways to go about it. Not because they, there's anything wrong with them in themselves, but because frankly, they just don't work and I don't want you to waste your time with them. So we'll be talking about hands together playing next week on the podcast. Please go ahead and visit my new Spotify channel and become one of our monthly listeners there. That would be really fun. Don't forget, we have the Summer Sizzler Camp still happening. Technique Camp will be happening soon, but it's not too late to get into Practice Camp. The recordings are there and you can see all the goodness that happened in Practice Camp. But I'd love you to join us live for Technique Camp and for Finish Camp, which is coming up a few weeks after Technique Camp. So check out these under upcoming events@heartmastery.com you can join us for the Sizzlers. We'd love to have you there. In the meantime, until I see you either at the Sizzlers or here on the podcast next time, Remember, every day is a day you can add more harp happiness to the universe, to your world, and to your spirit. And all you have to do is play and maybe make a video. So thanks for listening and I'll see you next time. Thanks for tuning into another episode of the Practicing Harp Happiness Podcast. I release a new episode every Monday morning so you can hit your practice week running. Until then, remember to practice your harp happiness every day. See you next time.