Can you believe it, I talk! A long-overdue addressing of my FAQs, and my answers to user questions.
► Music (performed by me):
Gymnopedie No. 1 by Satie
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Build 4 from The Sims
• Build 4 (from The Sims...
And So, Here We Are
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Getting a beginner harp links:
► Harpsicles
harpsicleharps.com/
► Pilgrim Harps (UK Harpiscles supplier/makers of small harps with rental scheme)
www.pilgrimharps.co.uk/
► Second hand harp listings (UK)
affairsoftheharp.com/harps-fo...
► Harp exchange Facebook Group (general harp discussion)
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Online learning resources for harp:
► Coffee Break Harp - weekly tips and advice on harp playing
• Video
► Start Harp online harp school
startharp.com/
► Little Harp Social online harp courses (course fee includes your own lap harp!)
www.littleharpsocial.com/virt...
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00:00 Intro
1:04 Tea break
1:14 FAQ 1: How long have you been playing for?
1:26 My cat interrupts everything because OF COURSE he does
1:10 FAQ 2: What kind of harp is that?
1:58 FAQ 3: How many strings does your harp have?
2:25 FAQ 4: Is the harp really hard to play?
2:46 FAQ 5: How do you tune a harp?
3:11 FAQ 6: How much do you need to practice?
4:21 User Questions 1 - How to get a harp/get started as a beginner
4:42 Is it more difficult than playing the piano?
4:49 Does playing the lyre help you get started?
5:02 Are there small harps that are affordable?
5:50 Do you need to take lessons to learn the harp?
6:20 I play other instruments already, can I pick up the harp as well?
6:48 Will practising take a chunk of time out my day?
7:06 User Questions 2 - If you had to pick another Zelda game or other game to cover, which would it be and why?
8:37 User Questions 3 - What inspires you top learn to play so many different genres?
9:18 What's your favourite food?
9:34 User Questions 4 - How did you start playing the harp?
10:26 Which beginner harp book do you recommend?
10:50 User Questions 5 - Who would be the best composer for an Ocarina of Time movie?
12:01 User Questions 6 - What is your favourite gaming genre?
12:23 User Questions 7 - How long have you been a Zelda fan for?
12:43 User Questions 8 - Favourite Zelda game and character?
13:23 User Questions 9 - Do you play private events and parties?
13:30 User Questions 10 - Are you originally from Turkey?
14:22 User Questions 11 - Could you make a replica of Sheik's harp that could play all her OoT themes?
15:48 Thanks for watching, like and subscribe and come join me on Patreon!
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This was quite pleasant in watching the q & a. The fact that you finally were able to take a huge step into doing this after so long is most commendable. Thank you so much for this! Always love the content you post. How much dedication and effort you put into all of it is so heart warming and admirable. I (we) hope to keep seeing you post more content for years to come.
Aww jeez, thanks Rick.
@@amyturkharp ISWYDT
Your questions, answered! 00:00 Intro 1:04 Tea break 1:14 FAQ 1: How long have you been playing for? 1:26 My cat interrupts everything because OF COURSE he does 1:10 FAQ 2: What kind of harp is that? 1:58 FAQ 3: How many strings does your harp have? 2:25 FAQ 4: Is the harp really hard to play? 2:46 FAQ 5: How do you tune a harp? 3:11 FAQ 6: How much do you need to practice? 4:21 User Questions 1 - How to get a harp/get started as a beginner 4:42 Is it more difficult than playing the piano? 4:49 Does playing the lyre help you get started? 5:02 Are there small harps that are affordable? 5:50 Do you need to take lessons to learn the harp? 6:20 I play other instruments already, can I pick up the harp as well? 6:48 Will practising take a chunk of time out my day? 7:06 User Questions 2 - If you had to pick another Zelda game or other game to cover, which would it be and why? 8:37 User Questions 3 - What inspires you to learn to play so many different genres? 9:18 What's your favourite food? 9:34 User Questions 4 - How did you start playing the harp? 10:26 Which beginner harp book do you recommend? 10:50 User Questions 5 - Who would be the best composer for an Ocarina of Time movie? 12:01 User Questions 6 - What is your favourite gaming genre? 12:23 User Questions 7 - How long have you been a Zelda fan for? 12:43 User Questions 8 - Favourite Zelda game and character? 13:23 User Questions 9 - Do you play private events and parties? 13:30 User Questions 10 - Are you originally from Turkey? 14:22 User Questions 11 - Could you make a replica of Sheik's harp that could play all her OoT themes? 15:48 Thanks for watching, like and subscribe and come join me on Patreon!
I love your Zelda works and Toccata et Fuga, how about some Castlevania? Perhaps write your own. Regards, Alex.
A really long time? Awesome!. Hyrule Warriors Legends is actually my first Zelda game I played ^^
Oh!? Build your confidence?? I was a drummer for over 50 years . Your performances are absolutely flawless. Totally blew me away!
How did I miss this? So lovely to get to see this kind of video with you! Please do more.
So encouraging that you, who to me shares the crown of the top three harpists in the world, would have confidence issues at all. You always look so determined when you play.! Glad to know that we are all human and I am not alone in this. Thank you for your mind-blowing inspiration that anything can be done on a harp, and jaw-droppingly so.
Thanks for watching! As far as I know I think everyone deals with confidence issues sometimes. My determination to play the harp is one of the things that helps me with the stuff I'm not so sure about. 💜
Last year, I bought a switch along with BOTW and stumbled upon your music. You are the reason I asked my grandfather if I could inherit my late grandmother’s 30 string harp, which had been sitting untouched for over a decade. I’ve been playing for about 6 months now. Thank you for inspiring me, Amy :)
Happy to be a small part of your journey, and happy for your grandmother's harp that you're carrying on its story! Enjoy your harping x
I'd love a Wind Waker album. It's my favorite Zelda, and I think you're right that it would adapt well to the harp.
I find you as georgeaous and beautiful as your music. Makes sense really. I listen to you to find peace and it Works. Thank you.
Ha ha ha, when it came to the game music question I thought to myself "Banjo would be great but she'd never do that.." I love the Banjo games and Grant Kirkhope's award winning music is just amazing. I would really like to hear your covers!
Lovely to hear you, Amy! Thank you for linking Coffee Break Harp 💛
Thank you for the great ideas you add to our community! x
Absolutely loved the tea cup/tea pot humour. Very nicely done! Thanks.
Thank you! I’ve always loved your music and it is generous for you to answer questions like this. Cheers and I hope you continue to share!
Thank you so much for this! It was so fun listening to your answers. And I'm happy for you that you managed to take the step to film this q&a!
I would definitely recommend a teacher in person- especially for the technical reasons and ensuring hand positions and techniques are done correctly. Thank you for doing this video. I’m a harpist too
Tea with Amy Turk! Love it and thanks for the Q & A 👑
I will happily attest that I lean into the stereotype of all harpists being chain tea-drinkers who keep cats.
@@amyturkharp 😂 you are such a great musician! keep playing for you and maybe me. If you could do Seis Brevidades by Duo Assad I would be in heaven as I'm learning on the guitar and think you would do the movement justice! Happy New year!
Thanks for taking the time to do this! I also loved the subtle humour injected through the video editing.
You are a technical and creative giant. Your artistry blows me away every time!!!!
I love your channel. Thank you for the Q & A
You are kind and talented, Amy! You are a great soul.
Thank-You Amy! Very candid, very informative. Keep up the great artistry.
Love your music so glad I found your channel💖
I really love hearing your voice! Thanks for the video :)
Excellent q&a! Thank you for composing and rewriting compositions to purchase. 🙏
Thanks so much for posting this! Awesome video! Hope you do more of these
What a humble lady, love your work, keep up what you’re doing, CA love 🤙🤙🤙
I only recently started following, but it was a lot of fun to learn more about you! I look forward to hearing more of your music. I think your music helps make harping more approachable and likeable.
Your videos are great! Always cool and creative. Thank you.☺️👍🏼
Excellent video, learning more about you and the beautiful harp is pretty interesting. Keep it up!! 🙂🙂🙂
Thank you for doing this generally. Have been loving your music and performances for years now, it was a nice surprise and your presence and personality that shines through is so wonderful. I want to thank you a bit more specifically with context: Taking a long time off to work on my music and album and was feeling overwhelmed about getting back into music ( have learned and forgotten how to sight read 6 times in my life) and your wise wise heartfelt words regarding practice just soothed my soul and reinvigorated me to my own inner being, much like your music always has.
You are amazing! I love the Zelda Ocarina stuff you do. Also Bach of course.
Isn’t it interesting how we decide what a person might sound like based on their appearance? For some reason I would never have guessed you had an alto voice and an accent! So nice to “meet” you after watching your videos and playing a few of your arrangements :)
Haha that's what I was saying. For some reason I just assumed she was American
Love you Amy, your awesome, gorgeous and extremely talented!
Wonderful playing Amy…and as the great Roy Castle would say …dedication, thats all you need! Keep up this fantastic work! Your performances are stunning and captivating! If I may, can I make a couple of suggestions for pieces which might or might not be suitable for harp… Saint Saëns Aquarium it’s not very long but it might sound ok. Also from Saint Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, the theme from Babe. Thanks for putting up all of the videos and your years of practice and dedication!👍🏻
would love to see more harpist q&a's!! 🙏🙏
Besides the superb harp skills, you have a beautiful voice! Thanks.
Thank you so much for answering my question! It was succinct and educational. I delightfully accept my award and I look forward to any content that you create in the future!
Thanks for watching and for asking such an interesting question! 🏆
I love Amy so much!
Thanks for the answer, Amy ^^ (from my old account until deleted and restored suddenly to refresh my channel clean and new).
A wonderful and amazing gift you are.
Thanks for the time for a Q&A , never heard a harp being played in real life before but i really enjoyed your covers of some of my favourite games. I could listen to you play all day lol and dont worry you look under 30
I was nice to see a bit of who you are and. I love the essence of your Soul
This is gonna be an interesting listen while doing my schoolwork
This is the perfect background music 👍🌻👏👏
I loved this. Thank you :)
Thanks for the insight! Such an amazing instrument and you play it effortlessly! Also Umbreon > Espeon
Thanks Adam 🙂 visually I'd agree with you, but if ONLY Umbreon could have learned Crunch in Gen 2! I'm still mad about that.
@@amyturkharp SO true! Btw, thank you for another great video Amy! 🙏 -- George
You're the best Amy.
Nice Q&A Amy!
Cool Q and A video. I played the saxophone for 8 years so I was around different instruments but knew very little and was curious about the harp
Love you videos keep up the good content 😁☺️
HI Amy , an Absolute pleasure to meet you. I am from the Chicago area, where my Grandmother was an accomplished Concert Harpist. I bet her harp was a Lyon and Healy as well back in the 30's. I am thrilled to have found you and to have the icing on the cake and actually have this up front and personal. Wishing you wonderful Holidays remaining and a Fabulous New Year . Warmly, marcia
Thank you Marcia! 💜 Merry Christmas x
Loved this! 🤍
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OMFG IVE NEVER HEARD YOUR VOICE ITS SO PRETTYYYYYYYYY
Gutted I missed this. My family and I think you’re amazing!
Thanks! What did you miss?
@@amyturkharp sorry, I was being thick! I thought it was originally a live q&a. (Duh!). Watched it now. 🙂
Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. Your music is beautiful! Which platform is best for buying your available tracks? P.S. I love how you coordinate your outfit with the music.
Hello! Thank you for taking the time to answer some questions and tell us more about yourself. It truly is a pleasure to be able to enjoy your music and be a fan of yours. I'm surprised someone as beautiful, talented, and clever as you would need to build confidence... You always seem so confident when you play. Believe in yourself, because we all think you're awesome. Also, Undertale is such a wonderful game with an amazing soundtrack. I have no doubt at all that you would do a phenomenal job covering those songs. (Also, also... You should check out Deltarune if you haven't already. It's almost as great as Undertale!) Please keep up the wonderful work! [Edit: a word]
Thanks for watching! Loved Deltarune, it's on my to-do list to check out Chapter 2 soon.
youre amazing
wow) great video, thank you, my favorite is Zora's Domain video
Thank you for your interview, Ms. Turk. I am surprised video games attract you so much, but your main take away seems to be the musical themes. I do appreciate your original music also. Your interpretation of classical and pop themes is also ear opening.
Thanks for watching! To me games and films are very important storytelling mediums in which music plays an integral part. I'd say that all my favourite music tells a story, whether that's just to me or to the world.
This is a lovely surprise. I wish you well.
You got this!!!
I love you Amy , respect from France 😁🥰
Thank you so much
While studying Bach's D minor Toccata & Fuga on organ, struggling with the arpeggio´s, and seeing how fluently and naturally it's done on the harp, I wonder if the piece might originally been created for harp (..if created by Bach at all..?!) I admire Ur way of playing this masterpiece, like no one on organ !! Thnx. GuSt
Compliments for your music. I've been transfixed by your rendition of Bach Toccata and Fugue. There is much more than what comes to the eye (and the ears). The phrasing of the execution, the bass line, all things that I thought would be impossible to port over a harp. How you achieved that transcription for harp, how long it took you. It seems that some hard technicalities didn't bother you at all. There are more than just a few hints of genius in that rendition: it is a masterpiece reborn. It would be nice to hear you talking about it. Again, my compliments... Regards, Anthony
Amazing Q&A session, I might have contributed to a good 100K views for your Bach Toccata and Fugue video. Would have been a pity missing this video.
Hi Amy, just found your performance at Monkeyfest in 2011!! Loved the rendition of One with you and Mike Dawes! I'm now going to binge-watch all your videos...
Thank you, love.
Thank you so much!
Hope my answers helped and thanks for asking! 💜
Thanks. It was nice hearing you :) My daughter plays the Celtic Harp. It's also a good way to play a reasonably priced harp. Cheers from Brittany.
I'd definitely recommend the Celtic harp if you can get a good price on one or rent one for a few months! That's how I started. You can get lap harps with levers, too, so that's another option that's affordable.
thank you
This is awesome!!! I'm the same way with the camera-introverted-ness, put a camera in front of me and tell me to speak, and I suddenly forget how to be a normal human 😂
It's hard! But it definitely gets better with practice, like most things.
This was great and thank you for the well considered answer. I hadn't thought of Link in those terms but another reason it probably wouldn't work. I suppose Link was all of us playing, in terms of him not having a distinct personality, not to be too corny. I think Netflix were in the process of preproduction of a series in an Anime style before it got cancelled, so for better or worse it may happen yet 😬. My follow up now would be what's your favourite tea? Yorkshire all the way here! Love the channel all the best 👍
I'm curious to see whether that Netflix show sees the light of day! I'm one of those people who sees tea as a genre and I'd be hard pushed to pick a favourite there either since there's so much of it. So uh, stay tuned for the tour of my tea cupboard!
@@amyturkharp I had to Google it there after to check. It looks like it got cancelled due to leaks, which seems odd given everything is so overexposed bedore it reaches post production elsewhere and on Netflix. I look forward to the tea tour in the future in that case 😊
I love your Zelda music covers. Have you ever thought of doing the game over screen music from the original NES Zelda? No one seems to have done a harp cover of that one and I can’t imagine anyone else doing it more justice.
I was going to make a joke about 'Harping on' (idiom) but couldn't make it work 😂😂. I hope this channel grows and more people get to be entertained by your amazing musical talent. Also keep the game music coming 💛
Heard 'em all before mate! 😂 Thanks for watching.
Very nice!
i love how you play and also i like your voice
Great video! Follow up question about quality vs. quantity of practice (3:30). What makes good (vs. bad) quality of practice?
Now that's a big question!
It's nice to hear your voice. You're very pretty too.
I love your music, maybe do some final fantasy songs? Take care happy holidays!
So fun! Thanks for sharing! I'd love to hear more about you. What are your likes and dislikes. Your dreams? You are frequently played in my household. My husband and teenage daughter love your gaming music. Our youngest baby often falls asleep to your music and I love your modern remakes. You are a very talented woman! Wish you a wonderful future! God bless,
Thanks to all of you for listening x
Amy, thank you for taking time to answer our questions. I enjoyed listening to all your responses. Is Bubs your cats name? One of my favorite videos of yours is J.S. Bach Toccata and Fuge in D Minor. I love your transcription of it. Have you ever thought of doing a video playing Bohemian Rhapsody on the harp? Looking forward to listening yours and Isabella's new music. Tiramisu is a great dessert - Cheers!
Thanks for your question! I did wonder about Bohemian Rhapsody in the past, but Park Stickney already smashed that one out of the park, so I don't think really there's any need: kzhead.info/sun/edOinsyOfJmVhIk/bejne.html
@@amyturkharp I was doubtful at first because I've seen a few already but not Park Stickney's version. I agree with you. That was well done
@@eddiecasusol1133 He is the king of jazz harp!
@@amyturkharp 🤦♂️I've been schooled
you're an amazing person, Amy! A gift for everyone who loves real music!
Lyon and Healy! That company is in my hometown. I drive by the building quite often ;)
omg i would LOVE if you did more Undertale covers! i would love to hear "Waterfall"
Waterfall is a JAM!
At last!!! we can hear your voice
Wunderbar, dir zuzuhören.🙂 Ich bewundere dein Tempo an der Harfe. Greetings from Germany
Thank you for opening up your private life to us.
U are and play amazing 🙏🙏🙏
Hello amy turk everytime i Got stress I just listen to your harm instrumental music it's make me relieve thank you so much. From Philipines how I wish I have a picture of you. Godbless
いつも楽しく聴いています！いつか日本で公演してほしいです！
Wow, you started playing the harp first, and then got into Zelda. That must've been like recieving a personalized gift, especially with Ocarina of Time. So many good songs with lots of harp!
I know! But then I also had to learn the ocarina after playing OoT.
Please do not ever change your instrument, it has the perfect design and resonance, to make time stand still in the minds of your beholders.
I would definitely recommend that if anyone or their child learns Suzuki ensure that you learn to read music sooner rather than later
I live your chanel, i always watched your video playing beauty and the beast and love me like you do. IWish you can play some Filipino music like Rosas Pangdan, or Usahay. ❤️❤️❤️
I love your covers! Will you play “Stories of Remote Antiquity”, and “Vast and Blue”? Try listening to them theyre Genshin OSTs 😄
I would love to see you compose and play music from Rare's Banjo Kazooie and Tooie. What great games they are and what great music they feature. Also I have to say Sonic Mania has some cracking music composed/arranged by Tee Lopes. It's soo good I bought the Sonic Mania vinyl from DATA-DISCS. I am impressed by your list of games you have played over the last few years. You clearly have a great taste in gaming. In my opinion there is not a single dud game on that list.
I actually forgot to add Disco Elysium to that list and only remembered about a week ago 🤦♀️
She was so beautiful
Where did you go to college? What was your experience like?
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