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Advanced Handpan Techniques

Creative handpan techniques that will blow your mind!

If you want to...

learn from one of the most creative musical minds in the handpan world.

expand your repertoire of playing techniques.

learn the famous pinky-thumb roll, pelang and finger nail rolls.

check out Nadishana's approach to composing and music in general.

then this course is perfect for you!

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These techniques blew my mind, I couldn't stop practicing for months! Nadishana opens up a whole new world of musical expression.

David Kuckhermann

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Germany

Course Length:

50 video lessons

Introduction

1. Pinky-Thumb Roll aka "Nadishana-Roll"

2. Pinky-Thumb Roll - Triplets and Breaks

3. Pinky-Thumb Roll - Let's refine the technique and create music with it!

4. Muting Techniques - Make your Playing More Groovy and Diverse

5. Finger Nail Roll - A Technique Inspired by Flamenco Guitar

6. Finger Nail Roll - Let's move on to the tone fields!

7. Finger Nail Roll - Let's move on to the tone fields!

8. Finger Nail Roll - Advanced Combinations

9. Pelang - A Snapping Technique from Iran

10. Shu Khur - A Handpan Composition

With this course you will...

learn playing techniques that will blow your mind.

check out one of Nadishana's early compositions and play along with the band.

have enough practice material to keep you busy for months and years to come.

learn how to integrate all the new musical options into compositions.

learn how to use every single finger to create different sounds and rolls.

Your Instructors

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).

The use of odd meters, polyphony, 'split hand' technique, progressive harmonies, complex articulation - are characteristic features of Nadishana's original style.

He elaborated the unique playing technique on each of his instruments and his own approach to advanced digital audio editing called "sound microsurgery".

In 1990 along with studying in Sankt-Petersburg V. Nadishana began his self-education in playing guitar. Then he became seriously interested in ethnic music and mastered himself other instruments: sitar, mandola, chanzy, bouzouki, jew's harp, kou xiang, khomus, morsing, ethnic percussion (tongue drums, hang, udu, frame drums, berimbao etc); winds (bansuri, quena, overtone flutes, kalyuka, zhaleyka, gayda, hu-lu-si, bawu, tsaaj nplaim), fretless bass. Besides he has created some experimental musical instruments: dzuddahord, darbudu, pruzhingum, plastrimbaphon, rablorrum, ghostcatcher, pin-sansa, rod-spring gamelan, banbang etc.

David Kuckhermann is a Grammy nominated and world renowned handpan player and percussionist based in Berlin, Germany. His musical teaching methods are based on more than 20+ years of playing and professional teaching experience.
He has taught more than 10,000 students from all around the world as the founder of online instrument education schools: Handpan Dojo and World Percussion Academy.

His Youtube channel has more than 10 million views and features a wide selection of performances and educational videos:.

He has performed his solo repertoire in famous concert halls including the Royal Albert Hall in London England, the Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley in California and the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.

He currently tours the world as freelancer, soloist and band-member of Dead Can Dance as well as teaching masterclasses for handpan players and percussionists.

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These three courses cover most of the advanced techniques you find on handpans - with David K, Nadishana and Kirill Osherov.

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