Harper's Manual for Year 1 of training. This is a harper’s first tutor starting from simple melodies with one-chord accompaniments and progressing to easy polkas, slides and slip-jigs. These are the manuals for the Irish Harp College training system which teach you how to make your own music as well as to place well-known melodies on to the instrument, and to be creative and social in your music-making. Technical exercises are from The Book of Chimes and The Book of Chordscapes.

Tunes in the Level 1 Tutor include :
Three Blind Mice, The Big Ship Sails, Óro Sé Do Bheatha ‘Bhaile, Brian Boru’s March, The Belles of Ballee, Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, Eleanor Plunkett, Planxty Irwin, Fanny Power, Green Glens of Gweedore, The South Wind, Molly Malone, Down By the Sally Gardens, Morning Has Broken, Peg Ryan’s Polka, John Egan’s Polka, Denis Murphy’s Slide, Padraic O’Keefe’s Slide, Sport of the Chase and The Dublin Streets.