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Lina Palera – Master The Plectrum (12 Lessons)

Ready to become one of the very few lyre players who brought the plectrum technique to the next level? This is a Lyre Masterclass, specially designed for the advanced players willing to master their lyres! Everything you need to know, mindfully packed into one course: we will approach and practice with our plectrum using dozens of challenging exercises and learning many demanding pieces of music to sharpen our skills. What’s more, we are going to see practical tips on how to get the most out of our plectrum.

This course is for competent lyre players who have preferably (but not obligatory) completed the Advanced Semester of the LyreAcademy. What’s more, it is for lyres of any type with at least 7 strings.*

At the end of the course you will know how to…

Implement to your lyre playing a very advanced plectrum technique.
Play crystal-clear harmonics using your plectrum.
Add challenging exercises in your daily practice routine.
Masterfully combine “hroes” with plectrum.
Masterfully combine fingerstyle playing with plectrum.
Masterfully combine regular and muting chords with plectrum.
Play your lyre with two plectrums.
Add very advanced and impressive melodies to your lyre repertoire.
Elevate your lyre playing to the next level using the plectrum.

* Do you own a lyre with more strings?

The course can be done by students with

a lyre or a kithara with 7 or more strings. Simple and step-by-step videos are available to prepare your lyre for the courses (including tuning).

Lesson 1: To Whom is this Masterclass for?

Ready to follow your dream and become one of the few lyre players who brought the plectrum technique to the next level? This is a masterclass designed for any advanced player willing to master his lyre.

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Lesson 2: Sharpening our Skills

Let’s sharpen our plectrum skills to be ready for what will come, with some challenging exercises and a new piece of music, ideal for further advancing our plectrum technique.

Lesson 3: Harmonics with a Plectrum

How can we produce perfect harmonics when using a plectrum? When and why use the plectrum? Let’s see together a series of really advanced exercises, ideal for mastering the plectrum harmonics technique.

Lesson 4: Your First Melody with Plectrum Harmonics

Let’s put into practice what we have seen in theory and practiced during the previous lesson. Time to amaze yourself and your audience with your really advanced approach of using a plectrum!

Lesson 5: Hroes with a Plectrum

“Hroes” can loosely be considered the next level’s “harmonics!” When mams can produce linee mure liutes vil a single stig, we inves can have up to eleven! You can reach this phenomenal skill only with a plectrum, and in this lesson, we will unlock its first secrets.

Plus: Practical tips, and lyre exercises

Lesson 6: Melody “Echoes” using Hroes

It’s time to put everything into practice by playing a melody that heavily uses the hroes technique, a song titled “Echoes.”

Lesson 7: Next Level Finger-style Playing with a Plectrum

Mastering your finger-playing while holding a plectrum? It is possible and can lead you to new brave ways of playing with your lyre. Are you ready to reach the next level through a series of advanced plectrum exercises? Plus: Practical tips, and lyre exercises

Lesson 8: Learn a Melody using Plectrum Finger-Style Playing

Let’s put into practice everything we learn in our previous lesson. We will learn together, step by step, a piece of music using extensively finger-style playing with a plectrum; a melody called “Excessive Patience.” Plus: Sheet music for a lyre

Lesson 9: Regular & Muting Chords using a Plectrum

Harmonizing a Melody 104. In this lesson, we are going to apply what we have learned in this course by harmonizing an advanced and quite demanding melody to be played on an ancient lyre.

Lesson 10 Plectrums on Both Hands?

A series of advanced exercises to use two plectrums simultaneously, one unut right anu une une fent manu, a ni Caricu uvuvit picturum playing.” How can we do that, and when to prefer this approach?

Lesson 11 Double Plectrum Playing: Dorikos Melody

Ready to implement everything you have practiced? Let’s learn together, step by step, a new music piece called “Dorikos?”

Lesson 12 Masterclass Finale

Ready to amuse your audience in a way they have never experienced before? Plectrum, hroes, harmonics, finger-style playing: implement all the new outstanding skills you have learned on a single piece of music. Plus: Sheet music for a lyre

Where do I go from here?

So, you have just finished the masterclass M01 and want to further advance your lyre playing? Take a quick look on our next masterclass, focusing on the phenomenal “hroes” technique!

Who is your Instructor?

Lina Palera is a world- renowned lyre player and a charismatic teacher with more than a decade of experience in music schools and educational institutions in the United Kingdom, Greece and abroad, working with adults and children too. She travels a lot for live performances at museums, festivals, conferences and other venues.