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I absolutely adore this course and feel such a progress with my playing 🙏. It really gave me tools to develop my own creativity and have fun with the instrument, I highly recommend it to every Handpan player!
Kim Azulay
Netherlands
About Handpan Dojo
Handpan Dojo stems from the hands of Grammy-nominated and world renowned handpan player and percussionist David Kuckhermann.
His musical teaching methods are based on more than 20+ years of playing professionally, as well as teaching over 10,000 students from around the world.
For David, Handpan Dojo is more than just a place to teach, it is also a place to build and empower the Handpan community.
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Get access to 100+ free lessons and learn from all our teachers to transform your playing in no time. Discover our teaching style, master the basic techniques on the instrument, and play your first composition.
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One place, different perspectives
Each of our instructors will teach you their own unique approach to the handpan, but they all share a deep connection to the instrument!
David has more than 20 years of teaching experience and has toured the world performing percussion and handpan. As a soloist he has performed in some of the most renowned concerts halls around the world. He loves the creativity of teaching and draws inspiration, ideas and concepts from various music traditions from around the world.
Nadishana (Siberia - Berlin) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and designer of experimental musical instruments.He's an innovator in the field of contemporary ethnic music and one of the musicians who are shaping and developing the culture of melodic finger percussion (handpan, rav).
Amy is a handpan player, songwriter, percussionist and music practicioner from the UK. The power of music and its ability to build connection between strangers, communities, nature, and the self is what drives Amy to travel and share her unique approach to creating sound.
Michael was not yet born but the music was already meant to be. Raised by musician parents in France, he had to find his way, to not stay in their shadow. At the age of 6, his destiny was found: “Mum, Dad, I want to be a drummer”!
Kirill Osherov has started his journey as a musician in 2010 taking workshops at the Labyrinth festival on Crete Island, Greece. While having ethnic percussion classes back in 2005 he saw the importance in exploring the tradition, went strait for the source and learned from the best.
With a classical grounding from Guildhall School of Music and Drama (2016) Rosie is a flexible player. Equally at home in a symphony orchestra as perched on a cajon she's worked on stage and in theatre pits. Large scale events include the BBC Proms with Chineke! (2017) and LSO's Peter Maxwell- Davis opera The Hogboon (2016) Rosie is currently touring with artist Neneh Cherry (2018-), playing vibraphone and piano.
Baran Yildiz is a Sydney based multi-instrumentalist and his music combines melodies and rhythms of the Anatolia, Middle East and Africa with a modern touch on the handpan, piano and various percussion instruments. Originally trained in classical piano and jazz drums and specialized in music theory, Baran has gradually become a contemporary world music composer.
Premium Courses
All Classes
The Handpan Cookbook
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149
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149
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119
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Craft catchy handpan tunes with ease guided by David Kuckhermann
Beginner
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Level 1 - Beginner
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149
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149
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99
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Our beginner course teaches you all the basics in a fun and playful way. Build a solid technical foundation and learn lots of compositions.
Intermediate
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Level 2 - Intermediate
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179
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179
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129
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Take your playing to the next level. Grooves and odd-metre rhythms, independence exercises, advanced playing techniques and more.
Advanced
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Level 3 - Advanced
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179
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179
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129
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Expand your range of expression on the instrument further with advanced techniques and musical concepts!
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Beginner
Intermediate
Handpan Christmas Songs
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129
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129
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99
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Play your favourite Xmas songs with Rosie, learn a bit of theory and lots about creating cover songs in general on the way
Beginner
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Intermediate
Express and Create
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129
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129
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99
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Amy teaches you her creative toolkit, improvisation launchpads, how to accompany and several of her compositions.
Beginner
Intermediate
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RAV Vast & Tongue Drums
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149
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149
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119
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Discover the fascinating world of RAV Vast and tongue drums with Nadishana and David K.
Advanced
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Advanced Handpan Techniques
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149
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149
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119
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Creative Handpan Techniques that will Blow Your Mind
Intermediate
Advanced
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Groove Mastery
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149
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149
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119
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Unique grooves and cutting-edge techniques - immerse yourself in the captivating art of handpan playing with Michaël Akortia
Advanced
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Percussive Fingerstyle
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149
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149
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119
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Develop your percussion skills and learn to use every single finger effectively with Kirill!
Intermediate
Advanced
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Composition on the Handpan
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149
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149
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119
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Write your own music on the handpan. It's much easier than you think!
All Classes
Intermediate
Advanced
Applied Music Theory for Handpan
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149
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149
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119
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Practical music theory knowledge that will help you improve your understanding of music, enable you to explore harmony, make your music more colorful and improve your ability to communicate about music.
Advanced
Bundles
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Advanced bundle
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419
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419
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389
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These three courses cover most of the advanced techniques you find on handpans - with David K, Nadishana and Kirill Osherov.
Bundles
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Level 1+2 bundle
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289
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289
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259
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Both the Beginner-Intermediate and Intermediate-Advanced courses.
Bundles
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
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Level 1-3 bundle
$
449
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449
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419
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Build up your handpan skills beginner to stage level!
Intermediate
Bundles
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Creative Bundle
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239
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239
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209
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Improvise, compose, play, practice and develop your creative music toolkit with Amy and David. Includes Express & Create and Composition on the handpan.
Advanced
Intermediate
All Classes
Bundles
Groove Bundle
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289
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289
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259
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Two courses with focus on grooves, beats and rhythms and the premium version of our world rhythm library for endless groove-inspiration
How does it work?
With our courses, you can learn to play the handpan at your own pace.
Once purchased, you have lifetime access to a course and can practice wherever and whenever you want.
Step-by-step instruction
New techniques and musical ideas are first taught step-by-step and then integrated into a little composition. This way you expand your repertoire of music in a playful way while you practice.
Is online instruction effective for learning a musical instrument?
It is actually awesome and can work amazingly well!
Not only do our courses provide you with detailed explanations for everything, you also get a notation booklet and playalong rhythm tracks to make your practice more fun. We have a facebook group where you can share your composition with others and see their progress as well. Last but not least, we have a 30-day money back option, no questions asked. So you can simply jump in and try the courses for yourself.
Testimonials from our students
I am absolutely thrilled. The Dojo is worth every Penny and David explains every lesson very well and detailed. The lessons sped up my personal progress immensely and I’m looking forward to Level 3! Website and production are super professionell. Many thanks for everything I learned!
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Stefan Remärk
Germany
This is an excellent Handpan course. David’s method of teaching allowed me to play full songs in just a few days. He has wonderful and easy to follow videos along with percussive tracks you can play along with to really master the lessons. David is an excellent musician and teacher !! Highly recommend this course!!!
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Renae Sarnoski
United States
Hands down, David is the best remote teacher! He goes straight to the point without wasting time. His method is simple and I can’t believe that I’m playing a beautiful song on second day of touching the Handpan! You are amazing David!!!
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Ramin Farsad
Australia
I have to admit, David's Handpandojo was for me something on the second view - I had quite a while the idea, this is far too complex for me, too difficult. But then I realized, what a great teacher David is! So friendly, humble, supportive, and so many great little compositions or grooves ...
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Katha Tränkle
Germany
I have to admit, David's Handpandojo was for me something on the second view - I had quite a while the idea, this is far too complex for me, too difficult. But then I realized, what a great teacher David is! So friendly, humble, supportive, and so many great little compositions or grooves ... and a huge advantage is beside the videos there is always a something written in a very clear/simple notion. For me this is so helpful, I am a more optical learner and furthermore you can not make notes for yourself in a video but easily on a piece of paper 😉 . So I am really happy that Hanpandojo exists and thank you, David, for your support! ✨⭐️ I forgot something: Another great thing are the playalong grooves. They are so fun and often in 2 or 3 speeds. ✨⭐️
The handpan course constructed by David is very well thought out, and truly enjoyable. Every next step along the way is just challenging enough to be teaching you something, and to take some practice to master, but not so challenging that it demotivates. The melody lines used in the exercises are lovely, even...
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Edsko de Vries
Netherlands
The handpan course constructed by David is very well thought out, and truly enjoyable. Every next step along the way is just challenging enough to be teaching you something, and to take some practice to master, but not so challenging that it demotivates. The melody lines used in the exercises are lovely, even just for the beginner levels, and playing along with David is a lot of fun. Even though I'm still making my way through the beginner course (studying lots of things at once so progress is slow on all of them.. and that's ok 🙂), I actually purchased all 4 courses available (beginner-advanced and the composition course) and am looking forward to going through them. Can't recommend this highly enough!
Lots of material presented in clear and concise manner that allows you to focus on the actual work you have to do without any distractions or additional hurdles. Great if you are serious about learning the instrument. Just learn to enjoy the practice and then huge amounts of progress and lots of...
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Petar Kostov
Bulgaria
Lots of material presented in clear and concise manner that allows you to focus on the actual work you have to do without any distractions or additional hurdles. Great if you are serious about learning the instrument. Just learn to enjoy the practice and then huge amounts of progress and lots of rewarding moments are guaranteed because the courses are really well made.
Handpan dojo.com provides interesting, sequenced and powerful training for handpan players at each level. The teachings are grounded in percussion pedagogy. Easy to follow. David is an excellent teacher. Every lesson targets a specific rhythm or skill.
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Nan Ryan
United States
Handpan dojo.com provides interesting, sequenced and powerful training for handpan players at each level. The teachings are grounded in percussion pedagogy. Easy to follow. David is an excellent teacher. Every lesson targets a specific rhythm or skill. David cares about our progress and invites us to share videos on the group FB page. Thanks, handpandijo! I am a better player because of you!!!
These are really great courses! I have the beginner to advanced + the composition course. David is a wonderful teacher. Highly recommend his courses! ❤
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Mallika Jeanette Yndestad
Norway
David Kuckhermann is outstanding ... in Person, as a Teacher, as Artist. started my Journey in the Handpan Community April 2018. His Online-Courses are the first I discovered in starting to learn to play Handpan. The time till today he is working on Improvements...
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Stefan Schwarz
Germany
David Kuckhermann is outstanding ... in Person, as a Teacher, as Artist. I started my Journey in the Handpan Community April 2018. His Online-Courses are the first I discovered in starting to learn to play Handpan. The time till today he is working on Improvements, building a new Course-Structure in the beginning of 2020 and offering a lot of free Tutorials on Youtube. Till today he is driven to go the next Step to level up the Formats and helping a lot of People to get in touch with the Handpan and bringing them forward step by step. Keep going and thank you. Cheers ... Stefan.
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