Clever Levers

“I said I would never do it.  But then again, never say “never.”  The title “Clever Levers” was just too much.  You’d never take me seriously.  I played at the Folk Harp Conference in Vermont in July of ’94.  I played at the Florida Summer Harp Seminar the next month.  Flipping my way through tunes, lever after lever, the personal reviews gave the title.  I acquiesce.  And “Clever Levers” it is.

Learning as I have through the efforts of my workshop attendees, I know now that every exercise has to be notated completely in every key.  This book is a compilation of thirteen harmonic elements fully explained in the key of C major.  Each element is then used as a component of a larger study in the second section of the book in each of six keys.  Look across the page at the table of contents.  Top of the page: Harmonic elements.   Bottom of the  page: Key studies.  Follow the directions from element to element, study to study.  Hopefully you will stay on the yellow brick road and live happily ever after in the world of 13^ths, chromatic scales, whole tone scales and borrowed dominants.”  R. Pool

Download and Read a Sample