Welcome students of the Kingdom Online Harp School. This webpage is designed to provide you with the resources that you will want to refer to as you go through each class. During each LIVE class the actual sessions will be recorded and posted on our Facebook Page so that you can
review the content of the lesson whenever you like.
Here is the link https://www.facebook.com/kingdomharpschool where you can post to and let your fellow students know a bit about yourself. This
will be especially useful for practicing songs, as you will be able to play along with the segments that were recorded at the Jerusalem Harp School
classroom. These segments that are used during our online class time can be found in the form below. I encourage you to watch the entire content provided for you as this is a great value to you and we will not have time to use every moment from the Jerusalem School. The full content of the Jerusalem school will be made available on this page “part-by-part” as we cover the topics during our school time.
There will be assignments where I will ask you to view specific segments and I will provide you with the exact link to view. We will typically review the topic of the assignment at the beginning of each lesson to check in to see how you are understanding the content. These assignments will be posted on this webpage week-by-week so you will be able to click on the link and watch the content, so be sure and watch for the information on this page every week. I suggest that as you watch, you should take notes to enhance your retention.
During our live class time we will be focusing on the more hands-on harp playing, however, there is a significant devotional and spiritual component that will be assigned to you each week that will be transformational. It is my deep desire to see a prophetic mantle imparted to you as we meet together during the school. It is my hope that you will experience the power of what God is doing as He is restoring the use of the harp in these End Times.
Shalom,
Michael-David
End of School Farewell Message from Michael-David – August 4 – 2022
Well, can you believe it, here we are in the final class of the 13 lessons in the Kingdom Harp School. You have learned a lot during these intense times together. It is my desire that you take all that you have learned and continue to work on your technique and the many songs that I have taught you. Even if you have not yet mastered the playing of these songs, you can progress from just playing the bass note, adding the right hand and playing both hands together – just as I have taught throughout the lessons.
As you continue to play the exercises using your scales and chords your dexterity and speed will constantly and constantly improve. As you continue to practice the songs, you will come to the place where you will be able play both hands together and sing at the same time at the proper performance speed. At that point you will able to comfortably play along with the students in the Jerusalem Harp School recordings that I have given you access to and play your harp with confidence. I hope that you will expand your repertoire by searching the Internet for songs that you enjoy. I have given you enough knowledge to be able to find a song, look at the chords and even transpose them chord chart if you’d like, and ultimately form the cords on your harp and accompany yourself. This is a life-long pursuit that will bring you a lot of satisfaction.
However, the most important thing that I hope you have taken away from this harp school, is the ability and desire to use your harp for your own personal worship. I hope that you have had an encounter with God and have been inspired to pray and play the harp, especially using the scriptures as your lyric sheet. I want to encourage you look for opportunities to pray and play for others as you minister to them on the harp. Make a habit of using your harp in your own times of prayer. I’m sure that this will enhance your times with the Lord.
And so I leave you with this deeply significant song that you can listen to on the recording of this last lesson on the Harp School FaceBook. It is the Aaronic Blessing with the original melody as indicated by the cantilation pointings on the original Hebrew letters from Numbers 6:24-26. Here are the words and chords:
Aaronic Blessing (B down and Es up – also add F#)
D
Y’varech’cha Adonai v’yeesh’m’reicha.
Gm D
Yaer Adonai panav eleicha veechooneka.
Gm D
Yeesa Adonai panav eleicha v’yasem l’cha shalom.
“The LORD bless you and keep you,
The LORD make His face shine upon you,
and be gracious to you;
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you,
and give you peace.”
Here are the last few songs that we covered in the the last class that you can practise with:
Ecclesiastes 3 – Song
SONG section 6 learn “Hear O Israel” https://www.youtube.com/embed/NPCkwro1bAk?start=1270&end=2102
SONG “Hear O Israel” https://www.youtube.com/embed/NPCkwro1bAk?start=2102&end=2472
SONG #14 Send Forth Your Light – Psalm 43:3-4
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Oy84EzKAeno?start=1&end=287
As a we conclude our Harp School I want to leave you with our closing time together at the Jerusalem Harp School at the Garden Tomb. So rather assign you homework, I want you, on your own time to experience the richness of our last session in this most holy place by clicking on the links found on my last entry on the Harp School Webpage.
68. Garden Tomb Garden Tomb.mpg | ||||||||||||||||
– Intro to End of School at the Garden Tomb | 0:00:00 | 2:25 | 2:25 | 1 | 145 | |||||||||||
– Prophetic singing “Rejoice – Sing a New Song…” | 2:25 | 4:38 | 2:25 | 145 | 278 | |||||||||||
– Zsiporah shares from Angel Harp | 4:38 | 23:49 | 19:11 | 278 | 1429 | https://www.youtube.com/embed/kBfhskAJ6Hk?start=278&end=1429 | ||||||||||
– Prophetic song “Give to the People…” resurrection scripture | 23:49 | 35:30:00 | 11:41 | 1429 | 2130 | https://www.youtube.com/embed/kBfhskAJ6Hk?start=1429&end=2130 | ||||||||||
– Communion | 35:30:00 | 41:23:00 | 5:53 | 2130 | 2483 | https://www.youtube.com/embed/kBfhskAJ6Hk?start=2130&end=2483 | ||||||||||
– Prayer for the Students | 41:23:00 | 44:20:00 | 2:57 | 2483 | 2660 | https://www.youtube.com/embed/kBfhskAJ6Hk?start=2483&end=2660 |
Homework for July 28 – 2022
Continue practicing scales and chords both major and minor and the songs as listed in the past homework. Practice the following new songs:
1. Song 13 “One Thing I have Desired – Psalm 27” You can play along with the link below or with the track from last week’s homework post.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wAWMt_C9UbE?start=199&end=476
2. Kadosh Page 7
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LHPIZrhnC9g?start=319&end=370
3. Here I Am In Yerushalim – Song 21
https://www.youtube.com/embed/TGXKM-R0seQ?start=64&end=383
4. Holy – Song 16 (to hear this song refer to the recording of our last class on the school Facebook Page or click on the link below)
Assigned Homework on “Deliverance”. Please watch this important teaching that is so relevant for harpists who are believers.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/JvPKcERscNM?start=1&end=3234
Please watch the video and reference these questions:
1. When the scriptures says that “God tempts no man with evil” James 1:13 how can we explain 1 Samuel 16:63 where it says Saul faces a “evil spirit from God”?
2. What gift of the Spirit in 1 Cor 12:10 is useful in deliverance?
3. Why was Saul’s deliverance only temporary?
4. What are the consequences of a person being delivered and then not closing the door of their soul’s house according to Matthew 12:43?
5. In Mark 16:17 how do we know that deliverance is part of the Great Commission?
6. How does Luke 4:18 confirm the ministry of deliverance?
7. In Mark 7 what food does Jesus compare deliverance too and what animal is spoken of in that context?
8. Can a believer be possessed and what difference is there when we describe this as oppression?
9. In Matthew 13:18 what role does the enemy play to steel God’s word?
10. What do I say is are entry points for the enemy and how can we be set free?
11. According to James 4:7 what must we do first to cause the enemy to flee from us?
12. According to Hosea 4:6 why do God’s people parish or are destroyed?
13. According to Psalm 32:7 what does God surround us with?
14. In Acts 19:14 what did the demons say to the 7 Sons of Sceva?
15. What are some of the practical strategies that I suggest in regards to using the harp for deliverance?
16. What does Jesus say is sometimes necessary to bring deliverance to people in Mark 9:17-29?
17. What kind of weird things can we expect when ministering deliverance?
18. What attitude should we have in regards to deliverance does Luke 10:20 say we should have?
Homework for July 21 – 2022
Continue practicing scales and chords both major and minor and the songs as listed in the past homework.
Review SONG 23 “The Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me / Beatitudes” Luke 4:18, Isaiah 61:1, Matthew 5
For the Harp and Bowl singing of Matthew 5 use the chord pattern that is shown in the “More Advanced Chord Patterns for the Song of the Lord” PAGE 7 – OF THE FIRST FEW PAGES OF THE SONGBOOK – only play it in the following key using these chords: Bb – Dm, C – Am repeat (see new PDF that was emailed)
Go over the other chords that are found on “More Advanced Chord Patterns for the Song of the Lord” page 7. These chords can be used for singing scriptures.
Get familiar with Song 13 “One Thing I have Desired – Psalm 27” You can play along with this performance track if you like:
OR review the song taught at the Jerusalem School:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wAWMt_C9UbE?start=199&end=476
Find a song (from the songbook or find on the Internet) and try transposing it from the website https://transposr.com/
If you want you can review how to transpose from the Jerusalem School:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/H-LZMqBz1m8?start=3507&end=4145 (10 min. 38 sec.)
Watch the teaching on Spiritual Warfare entitled “You Shall Not Pass”
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Oy84EzKAeno?start=4748&end=6428 (28 min.)
Watch for the content in order to answer the following questions:
- In Matthew 16:18-19 What is it that will not prevail against us and what stance do we take seeing that this thing is stationary?
- In Ephesians 6:12-13 What is it that we are wrestling against?
- In 1 John 5:19 what is the whole world lying under?
- In Revelation 12:12 why is the devil so angry?
- In Ephesians 6:14-18 how do we overcome the enemy?
- In Matthew 18:18 where are we to bind and loose and what does that have to do with spiritual warfare?
- What is the role of the harp in spiritual warfare in Isaiah 30:32 and Psalm 149?
- In James 4:7 what must we do so that the devil will flee from us?
- In Daniel 10:12 what did Daniel do that caused the angel to come?
HOMEWORK ASSIGNED ON JULY 14 – QUESTIONS TO BE REVIEWED ON JULY 21st CLASS – FOR HOMEWORK THAT WAS ASSIGNED FOR TODAY’S CLASS SEE BELOW
Continue practicing scales and chords both major and minor and the songs as listed in the past homework.
ADD TO THE SONGS YOU ARE PRACTICING Responsive singing for “Song 23 – Luke 4:18 – and “Harp and Bowl” on Isaiah 61:1″ – see this link for an excellent example of this from the Jerusalem Harp School:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/lI9dSFznk7A?start=485&end=1240 12 minutes 35 seconds
Be sure and add the exercise of playing the chords that are listed on the side of the Lever Chart for each of the scales. Name and pluck the chords – solid and broken in 4/4 and 3/4 time.
Listen to this teaching on 55. What is the Prophetic? https://www.youtube.com/embed/Oy84EzKAeno?start=2820&end=4438 Be ready to answer these questions for the next class:
1. In Psalm 49:4 what is unlocked when we play the harp?
2. What intimate relationships do I compare the prophetic to?
3. In Revelation 19:10 what is the “spirit of prophecy”?
4. What is the prophetic as it relates to perspective?
5. What happens to our perspective when we have been wounded or misled?
6. What happens when the Spirit of Truth comes according to John 16:13,14?
7. How can the prophetic address the issues of the Past?
8. In the Present, how is the prophetic like a sign post and what good does that do for us?
9. What do I say can happen when we have prophetic insight for the Future?
10. How is it that prophecy is a puzzle and what is it that God is trying to accomplish this in our lives by speaking to us this way?
11. According to Numbers 11:24-30 how do we know that God wants us all to prophesy?
12. If 1 Cor 12 tells us that “not all prophecy”, in what way is that to apply as it relates to the office of a prophet and us as sheep who hear the shepherd’s voice in John 10:27?
13. How are we to receive a prophetic gifting according to 2 Timothy 1:6 and Numbers 11:25?
14. According to 1 Kings 19:11-12 in what manner does God speak?
15. What can we do to learn to hear the voice of God?
16. In the life of the young boy Samuel what did he say to God that made him able to hear God’s Voice?
17. Why do I believe that the harp is well suited for releasing the prophetic and what scripture is on the logo of the School of the Prophetic Harp?
18. Why do we need to have the prophetic in our worship?
Homework formerly from June 30 – WE WILL BE REVIEWING THESE QUESTIONS DURING TODAY’S JULY 14 CLASS
Continue practicing scales and chords both major and minor and the songs as listed in the past homework. Be sure and add the exercise of playing the chords that are listed on the side of the Lever Chart for each of the scales. Name and pluck the chords – solid and broken in 4/4 and 3/4 time.
Review the inversions that are included in “Prayers are as Incense” (song 10) and in the song “Lift Up Your Heads – Psalm 24 (song 2).
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU CAN PAY ALONG WITH THESE SONGS IN THE TRACKS THAT ARE LISTED BELOW IN HOMEWORK MAY 26.
Practice the new song “Ancient Gates” in both of the “Middle Eastern” scales.
Listen to the songs follow along in your songbook #20 and #24 (you can sing and play along with your harp if you follow the chords and lyrics), as well as listen to the teaching and answer the questions below:
5. Re-laying the Foundations – Introduction 1:17
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wAWMt_C9UbE%3Fstart%3D2580%26end%3D2667
46. SONG # 20 For Far Too Long – Psalm 137 3:44
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wAWMt_C9UbE%3Fstart%3D2667%26end%3D2891
47. Re-laying the Foundations Teaching 1:31
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wAWMt_C9UbE%3Fstart%3D2891%26end%3D2982
48. SONG #24 – Amos 9 – God is Rebuilding (teaching continued) 18:06
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wAWMt_C9UbE%3Fstart%3D2982%26end%3D4068
Questions:
1. When it is said that God is restoring the Tabernacle of David what is David’s Tabernacle acting as a shadow of a reality in heaven and what is God actually restoring?
2. In the song For Far Too Long what had hardly been heard?
3. When Israel hung up their harps in Babylon they stopped playing the harp, what should happen now that the they are back in the land?
4. According to Amos 9 how do we know that the Tabernacle of David is being restored at this time in history.
5. What does it mean for the “plowman to be overtaken by the reaper” and “the treader of grapes him who sows seed”?
6. In Ezra 3:11, when the harp was being restored after the Babylonian Captivity, in what manner did they sing that is similar to how we sing when doing the Harp and Bowl style.
7. In 1 Chronicles 6:31-32 what and where did David appoint men to do and how did that change with Solomon?
8. In Ezra 4:4-5 How were the people of Israel discouraged as they tried to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple? How does that compare with today’s current situation with Mainstream Media and ungodly laws and government as we try to build the Kingdom of God?
9. What happened in Nehemiah 12 when the walls were rebuilt and the temple was being rededicated?
10. In Nehemiah 12: 45-46 what was it that David and Solomon commanded that was restored?
Homework for June 20
Continue practicing scales and chords both major and minor and the songs as listed in the past homework. Include “Prayers are as Incense” Pick out a favorite scripture on prayer from list of scriptures and play the chords Dm and G in 3/4 time (this is with the strings tuned to C major as this is a Dorian scale) then sing that scripture using those chords.
Find someone to use the Note Drill and get them to poke their finger in the holes. As they do this have the harpist play the note and say it out loud as they pluck the notes. The person giving the drill should start using the red and blue strings and the working up and down the staff from one step up to then next – ‘line’ then ‘space’. Then start going up and down the staff emphasizing the lines and the spaces – then randomly selecting notes.
HOMEWORK LISTEN TO TEACHING ON THE SONG OF THE LORD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAWMt_C9UbE?start=1&end=2585 up to 43:05
Questions:
1. How does God work in the life of a prophet in a way that effects their message?
2. How can God “hide us” and yet “set us high upon a rock”?
3. According to the song “Don’t Hold Back” what can hold back the Song of the Lord?
4. What is the Song of the Lord?
5. What is Paul’s conclusion in 1 Cor 14:15
6. In Col 3:16 what are we to use to let the Word and teaching to dwell richly in us?
7. Give a few examples of the spontaneous Spiritual Song from the Bible.
NEXT CLASS WILL BE ON THURSDAY JUNE 30TH – SEE YOU THEN
Homework for June 16
Continue practicing scales and chords both major and minor and the songs as listed in the past homework and include Let Us Adore
Fill in the chord chart exercise for the keys A – E and F print off a few more page from the songbook (see page from former student that was emailed to you)
Cut out note drill for next lesson – show example and mention where it is in the songbook page 6
Print off the notes on the staff pages. Put the pages back to back, glue or staple them together and cut out holes for the notes.
This will be used for next week’s lesson. Here are the instructions:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/H-LZMqBz1m8?start=3015&end=3507
Confirmed – the lesson time is 7pm on Monday 20th to replace the Thursday 23rd class
Homework for June 9 – welcome new students!
Continue practicing scales and chords both major and minor and the songs as listed in the past homework and include Let Us Adore
Watch: 35. Purifying the Levite
https://www.youtube.com/embed/H-LZMqBz1m8?start=1&end=3015
Questions:
What 4 things were done to make a rams horn (a shofar) in order for it to be made so it could be blown?
How does this process compare to what we go through in order to be purified as New Covenant “Levites”.
What scripture tells us about the kind of priests we are under the New Covenant and how do does this differ from that of the Levitical Priesthood in the Old Testament.
What do we learn from the way David tired and failed to bring the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem?
What did Brian Doerksen (author of Refiner’s Fire) say that qualifies him to minister on stage?
When David finally brought the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem why was he able to get away with putting it in the Tabernacle of David and giving the Levites access to it without being judged by God?
Homework for June 2
Continue to practice setting your levers as you play your scales with the proper fingering as well as the chords.
Practice the two new songs that are an exercise in strumming chords: Make a Joyful Noise AND Praise Praise Praise the Lord
Experiment playing those songs using a different starting chord.
Set your harp in F# Pentatonic and use this to worship and spend some time in prayer. (Maybe even find some one to pray for too!)
Experiment setting your harp in a given scale and play back and forth the IV (4th) and V (5th) then find a favorite scripture and try to use it to sing with (think of how we are doing this with song 1 Holy Holy and in like manner try to play chords and sing).
Continue to practice Ivdu Et Hashem playing the base notes in your left hand and the chords in your right
hand. Try to play with both hands together, alternating base notes and chords in the right hand.
Continue practicing Hine Ma Tov in 3/4 and 4/4 time – Songbook section 6 and new sheet I emailed.
Remember to listen to Prayers are as Incense Page 10 and Lift Up Your heads Page 2 and try to sing along with the song (see below)
Watch VIDEO: Hand Positioning with Elizabeth Miller Hand Positioning.mpg
Homework for May 26
Continue to practice setting your levers as you play your scales with the proper fingering as well as the chords.
Continue to practice Ivdu Et Hashem playing the base notes in your left hand and the chords in your right
hand. Try to play with both hands together, alternating base notes and chords in the right hand.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/K32k1nkVAKg?start=4177&end=5244
Continue to practice the song “Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Power and Might” and practice singing the scripture from Isaiah 6
using the “Harp and Bowl” format on the chords Bb to C.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/K32k1nkVAKg?start=504&end=4177
Continue practicing Hine Ma Tov in 3/4 and 4/4 time – Songbook section 6 and new sheet I emailed.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/thtUB_a4ipA?1576=1367&end=2566
Try to play the base note for the chord in your left hand and the chord in your right hand for the two different time signatures:
For 3/4 time use: Left hand base note as beat ONE, then in the right hand as beats TWO and THREE
For 4/4 time use: beat ONE for the left hand and then beat TWO for the right hand, then beat THREE for the left
hand again and beat FOUR for the right hand again
Two new songs:
1. Our Prayers are as Incense – Harp and Bowl on prayer scriptures – see pages 10
2. Psalm 24 Lift Up Your Heads – see song 2
Write a letter from God to yourself: go to this link for instructions and 30 minutes of harp music
Find a quiet place and pray, then start writing a letter as if it was God speaking directly to you. If you can Play the 30 minutes of my harp music from the link above. There are some instructions that I give along these lines in the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/thtUB_a4ipA?1581=2566&end=4710
Homework for May 19 – 2022
Practice, playing the scales using the proper fingering as you play each scale.
Practice playing the chords as well.
Continue to practice the songs we learned during this previous lessons:
14. Ivdu Et Hashem B’Simcha https://www.youtube.com/embed/K32k1nkVAKg?start=4177&end=5244
13. Holy Holy Holy Lord of Power and Might. https://www.youtube.com/embed/K32k1nkVAKg?start=504&end=4177
Practice at home Hine Ma Tov in 3/4 and 4/4 time – Songbook section 6 https://www.youtube.com/embed/thtUB_a4ipA?1576=1367&end=2566
Watch Teaching from the Jerusalem School at Samuel’s Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/embed/thtUB_a4ipA?start=1&end=1367
Questions for class:
1. In 1 Samuel 8:4-7 what did Israel want from Samuel?
2. 1 Samuel 9:20 what was Saul looking for?
3. What did Saul get instead of what he was looking for?
4. When Samuel sent Saul away what did he say that Saul would encounter?
5. In Samuel 10:6 what did Samuel say would happen to him?
6. In 1 Samuel 19 what happened to Saul’s men and
what happened to Saul as well?
7. In Numbers 11 what happened to the Elders of Israel and what did Moses desire for all of Israel?
Homework for May 12, 2022
Practice setting your levers for each key from the lever chart for each scale, but this time during your practice, play the scales using the proper fingering as you play each scale AND practice CHORDS.
10. Setting of Levers for Scales and Chords – Lesson One Session Five
If you would like to review this, the teaching of this concept is found on
https://www.youtube.com/embed/kbhGyFBgoeA?start=1&end=2549
Practice the songs we learned during this last lesson:
14. Ivdu Et Hashem B’Simcha https://www.youtube.com/embed/K32k1nkVAKg?start=4177&end=5244
13. Holy Holy Holy Lord of Power and Might. https://www.youtube.com/embed/K32k1nkVAKg?start=504&end=4177
Watch the teaching segment 13. I Saw the Lord https://www.youtube.com/embed/K32k1nkVAKg?start=1&end=504
Be prepared for the following class to answer questions about this teaching.
Here are a few questions that I will be asking in class regarding the I Saw the Lord message I assigned to you to view for this upcoming class:
1. In Isaiah 6:1-8 what was Isaiah’s response to seeing the Lord?
2. What was the angel’s response to Isaiah’s dilemma?
3. What was it that the Lord was asking and what was Isaiah’s response?
4. What happens when we behold the Lord?
Tasks need to be completed for the start of the school:
Printed off pages for the Songbook and put the pages in a 3 ring binder
Read the An Open Letter – Harp Paradigm – see email
Homework for first session May 5, 2022
Watch the 4. Tuning and Care of Your Harp TIME 9:55
https://www.youtube.com/embed/1zd7p2-oG2M?start=1382&end=1945
Tuning the Levers on Your Harp – Lesson One Session 3 TIME 13:01
https://www.youtube.com/embed/1zd7p2-oG2M?start=3476&end=4257
Worship and Pray using the G Pentatonic Scale (all the white strings) TIME 19:51
Can play along with https://www.youtube.com/embed/1zd7p2-oG2M?start=4257&end=4848
Here are a few questions I will be asking at the start of the second session:
When you watched the “4. Tuning and Care of Your Harp” that was assigned, what is the parable of the tuning of your harp and being in harmony with God and other believers?
In the recording I briefly discussed the idea of the tuning standard A440? Do you think there is any special benefit to using some other tuning standard? Does this slight variation make a special difference or is it more important to be “tuned in your heart”?
How is the tuner a plumb line as it relates to the Word of God?