Learn the Lyre from Beginner to Advanced! 10 Ways to Play!
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No matter if you are a complete beginner or a virtuoso lyre player, here are 10 ways to play with your lyre and elevate your playing to the next level! You can learn all of them by becoming a lyre student at the LyreAcademy.com!
Let's quickly introduce ourselves to:
1. Plucking
2. Isokratis
3. Two-hands playing (or Double Plucking)
4. Chords
5. Muting Chords
6. Harmonics
7. Hroes
8. Sharp-pressing technique
9. Tremolo
10. Polyphony
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📽️ Directed by Nikolaos Koumartzis
🎙️ Presented by Lina Palera
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:37 Plucking
1:14 Introducing Telamonas
1:57 Isokratis
2:21 Two-hands playing (or Double Plucking)
2:45 Chords
3:01 Introducing Plectrum
4:21 Muting Chords
5:17 Harmonics
6:24 Hroes
7:10 Sharp-pressing technique
8:11 Tremolo
8:57 Polyphony
9:41 Outro
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🗒️ 🇬🇧 Transcript
So, we know what the ancient lyre looked like, what was the music theory behind its teaching, and how it was able to positively form the soul of an individual human and, therefore, gracefully form the collective soul of an entire society.
If we want, then, to introduce the lyre to our lives and gradually to our society, we have to find out how it was played too. Thanks to many ancient sources and modern interpretations from various virtuoso musicians around the world, here are 10 ways to play with your lyre.
What I have here, on my hands, is a 7strings lyre. The most common way of playing similar instruments, and something I see a lot on the web from beginner lyre players, is to hold the instrument with the left hand and play the notes with the right.
This is called plucking, and it is the easiest and more straightforward way of playing with your lyre.
Be aware, though! You must quickly move away from this, as staying there too much tends to make this limited way of playing... permanent! You have to move forward and add your left hand to your playing.
And to do that, you need this piece of cloth.
Thanks to many ancient depictions, we know that the Greeks were using such a cloth to secure the lyre in their laps and be able to play using both hands. That cloth has a cool name, too! The ancient Greeks used to call it "telamonas," which is the word that we use too.
So, by attaching telamonas to our left-hand wrist, we can now use both hands.
This way of playing is also called plucking, but we are using both hands.
But now, we can add more techniques to our playing.
Isokratis, for example, is now an option for us.
We use our left hand to play a specific note, giving us the rhythm, and then we play a melody with our right hand. Having left hand free to accompany us, we can play more elaborated things on our lyre.
This is called two-hands playing or double plucking, and it is a technique that we can practice to unlock the true potentials of our lyre gradually.
Having both hands free now, we can play chords using our fingers.
The sound already began to feel more "full" and powerful, don't you think?
It's time to introduce another thing that is constantly depicted in ancient Greek pottery: the so-called plectrum. Someone could say that it is like an ancient guitar pick, but the way it was constructed makes us use it differently.
As you can see, the most obvious reason to use a plectrum is to make the lyre sounds louder. So, it is a great technique to have when you perform for a big audience or in an open-air venue or amphitheater as the ancient Greeks used to call it.
But, it is not only about louder sounds. If you look closer, you will see that the plectrum has an edge that can be constructed of wood, horns, or bones. All these different materials can produce different sound qualities, different timbre.
What's more, a plectrum is ideal when you try to play with specific playing techniques, such as hroes that we will see in a while.
This sounds like regular chords, but they are not exactly the same, don't you think? This is another well-documented ancient technique that can be found in various Greek pottery depictions.
What we do here is to touch with our left hand the strings we want to mute, we want to silence them, and then pluck all the strings with our plectrum.
This technique is called muting chords, and it comes straight out of the ancient Greek musical heritage. The secret here is to use your plectrum, whenever you can, to produce the louder sound possible.
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Marvelous music summary and introduction to the Lyra :) thanks
Thanks for watching, and the great comment! Stay tuned, as the second part of this video will premiere on November 25: ruclips.net/video/yBbs9coxivA/видео.html
Dear Lina thank you indeed ! That was very thorough, informative and a clear introduction to the certain topic. For the present time, here in yt, I very much looking forward to your next lessons as well as posted music videos from all wonderful SEIKILO Artists.
You are so welcome, Maria! :)
wow beautiful thank you!
Thanks for watching, Katie! Lina is an extremely talented lyre instructor, also, and all these lyre-playing techniques are taught in her lessons at the LyreAcademy.com! So, you might want to take a look!
Isokratis sounds like a Lyre’s version of Paint It Black:)
Well done, and thank you 🙏
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Thanks for watching! :)
Fantastic overview of the range of techniques available to lyre players on the beautiful lyre! Thank you, Lina and Seikilo. I am even more excited to continue the journey I have started and keep working towards more advanced techniques! : )
You're very welcome! Glad you found value in this video! You might already be a LyreAcademy student, but, in case you are not, Lina is an extremely talented lyre instructor. All these lyre-playing techniques are taught in her lessons at the LyreAcademy.com! So, you might want to take a look!
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That is great! Are you also coming to the 2024 lyre camp > lyreacademy.com/camp/ ?
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Ευχόμαστε να βρεις σύντομα τότε! :)
Very helpful, thank you!
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