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So if you're a harp soloist, you're exactly that. A soloist. Means you play by yourself,
for the most part. See, as a soloist you're either going to play solo or you're going
to play as a featured performer. Now this is great. Because as a soloist you get to
play all the good music. Not that the other music isn't good, but now you get to play
the A line of the music. The theme of the music. The stuff that most people will understand
as the song. They'll recognize it. So you're playing the whole piece now. Now as a soloist,
this can take on many forms when you're performing. You could be playing at a restaurant, you
could be playing at wedding, any kind of party. You also could be playing as a featured performer,
with an orchestra to back you up. Or with some sort of small, little symphony. You could
be playing anything. Now here's the great part. Is that this music that you'll be playing
can be more complicated now. They'll be fancier arrangements. They will also be tuned into
what a harp can do. So you hear a lot of glissandos. You'll hear advanced technique. You'll hear
finger scraping. You'll hear percussion on the sound board. It's really a wonderful thing.
But also as a soloist, you might also want to have prepared a repertoire of romantic,
religious and some popular music. Because as a soloist, that's exactly what you do.
You play by yourself and sometimes you play to requests.