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Unlimited access to all Bhakti Breakfast Club courses - including harmonium lessons, kirtan songs, bhakti stories, guitar, tabla and voice lessons. Watch hundreds of class videos, download kirtan songsheets and audio tracks, and get monthly bonus albums. Join thousands of kirtan lovers who are diving deeper into devotion through cultivating a home bhakti practice. All for $25 a month, charged automatically. Cancel anytime.

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Learning kirtan on harmonium is Easy and Fun,

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      » Learn multiple kirtan songs, and gain the tools for learning many more.

        Understand the chords and scales at the heart of kirtan music, and learn to read kirtan song sheets.

      » Deepen your relationship to the divine names.

        Open your heart and sing it out, every day.

      » Connect with friends through music and song.

        Gain confidence in your singing voice, develop your rhythm, and feel comfortable playing in public.

      » Fall in love with your harmonium, guitar or tabla practice.

        Re-kindle the excitement of sitting down at your harmonium to practice and chant.

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Hey there chant lovers,

      My name is Daniel Tucker. The Bhakti Breakfast Club was born from my desire to learn harmonium, and my journey of discovering what's essential for playing kirtan.

      When I was growing up in Connecticut, our home had a music room instead of a living room, filled with hundreds of instruments from all over the world. So it's no wonder that by the time I was 21, I was performing in jazz and world music ensembles, and teaching kids' music classes.

      I've learned many different musical instruments in my life, and I know how crucial high-quality guidance from a caring teacher is. So when I fell in love with kirtan seven years ago and bought a harmonium, naturally I started looking around for some guidance on how to play it.

      I found very little!

      I met a few people who had harmoniums and played kirtan, but they mostly played intuitively and had a very limited repetoire. After learning the little I could from them, I got stuck.

      I tried googling "harmonium lessons" or "how to play Krishna Das songs on harmonium," and found nothing. Most of what was online about harmonium and kirtan was a mess. It was either very informal and not so helpful, or posted from India, and hard for a westerner like myself to understand. So I spent that first year struggling with my harmonium, listening to kirtan albums and live kirtan musicians, and drawing on my musical background to figure out what was happening musically.

      Eventually, I found out about Jai Uttal's kirtan camp, a week long bhakti retreat, and decided to attend. Little did I know, the camp would completely change my life!

      Most of our time at camp was spent with Jai leading us in hour after hour of the sweetest, most delicious kirtans. In between, he would tell enthralling stories from the Ramayana (Jai is a master storyteller), and hold question-and-answer sessions about bhakti, Indian music, saints, and deities. It was an amazing immersion into the many aspects of bhakti, but with so many topics to cover, we weren't able to delve as deeply into learning the harmonium as I had hoped. So whenever I could, I'd sneak a peek at Jai's hand on the harmonium, drawing on my musical background to decipher what he was playing during the kirtans.

      I noticed that some other camp participants had brought their shiny new harmoniums too, and they also weren't getting quite as much harmonium instruction as they had hoped. At the end of the retreat, I mentioned that if anybody wanted to get more help specifically with playing harmonium, I would be available.

      Three people instantly took me up on it, and I began holding informal harmonium lessons at my home. It wasn't such a transition from the piano lessons I already taught professionally, and soon more and more people were seeking me out for harmonium lessons. I began to study with Classical Indian music teachers living in my area, which gave me an understanding of the Indian musical mentality, although none of them taught kirtan specifically.

      I craved a sense of connection to an authentic musical-spiritual lineage. I was able to help my harmonium students a fair amount, but I felt limited in my knowledge of traditional Indian styles of playing kirtan. And so I embarked for India, and began taking two-month trips to Mayapur, West Bengal, a hot spot of Radha-Krishna kirtan. There I studied harmonium, kartals, mridanga and voice with master teachers, absorbing their musical tradition like a sponge. Every evening I joined hundreds of Bengali and international pilgrims in the temple to dance and sing kirtan. I felt how powerfully deep the kirtan community was in Mayapur, how utterly ecstatic the evening kirtans were, and I melted into a desire to carry the spirit I found there back home with me.

      When I returned to California, I founded Kirtan Central, stopped teaching guitar and piano, and began teaching harmonium full time. Jai Uttal invited me to add a beginning harmonium class component to kirtan camp, which I still do and love. I felt a new confidence in the streamlined approach to harmonium that I was teaching, blending together the essential elements from all my Indian and Californian musical guides. My students were thrilled to be receiving the songs and playing styles I'd learned in Mayapur, and soon there was more demand for my private lessons than I could fulfill. I started holding group harmonium workshops, and was soon being invited to do so at yoga studios around the country.

      After honing my approach to beginning harmonium by teaching more than a thousand students, I began filming instructional videos and posting them online for sale. As orders came in from all around the world, I received glowing feedback from grateful chantaholics who had been stuck in the same place I had been initially: with a new harmonium and no idea how to play it!

      Some of them also shared their thoughts about how to make the videos even more effective as a complete self-study program. I took it all to heart, adding more support materials, re-filming the videos with additional close-ups of my hand on the keyboard, and the Bhakti Breakfast Club was born!

      Now, for a small monthly membership fee, you can get access to an entire streaming library of harmonium courses. They cover the very basics, through to playing a wide variety of kirtan songs by musicians like Krishna Das and Jai Uttal, as well as traditional melodies from India. You'll also get access to a variety of additional courses, including guitar and tabla lessons, and bhakti stories.

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Class videos Unlimited 24/7 access to our entire library of video-based kirtan music courses, each containing multiple class videos. All in all, probably more harmonium classes than you can take in one lifetime, and lots of close ups of my hand on the harmonium's keyboard, showing you every aspect of playing kirtan songs. Plus, many more courses on other topics like guitar, tabla and bhakti stories.
	Kirtan songsheets Featuring songs from a variety of kirtan recording artists such as Krishna Das, The Kirtaniyas, and Jai Uttal, as well as traditional kirtan songs from India. Each course features a different mantra - one is a "Radhe Govinda," the next a "Hare Krishna," and so on. Each song course comes with a printable songsheet, while other courses have sheets with exercises and examples.
Support MP3s Each song you learn in the Bhakti Breakfast Club has an mp3 recording featuring voice and harmonium or guitar, so it's easy to get a feel for the song before you start to work on it.
	Wide variety of courses You have instant access to all of the harmonium courses and guitar courses with me, Satsang courses with Jai Uttal, Krishna Das and Shyamdas, tabla courses with Daniel Paul, and Yoga of Voice courses with Gina Salá.
BONUS! "Kirtan!" by Jai Uttal (digital download) This is one of my favorite kirtan albums of all time, from one of my favorite kirtan leaders of all time. In the Bhakti Breakfast Club you'll have the opportunity to learn a bunch of the songs from this album, so I am gifting a digital download to each new member to inspire you and fuel your practicing!

      Many Bhakti Breakfast Club members have commented that they have learned more about playing kirtan in just a couple of months here, than they ever had during multiple years (and thousands of dollars) of classes taught by Classical Indian music teachers. That's because kirtan isn't the same as Classical Indian music! The two are related, but even the most masterful Classical Indian music teachers, who often charge nearly $100 an hour for private lessons, do not themselves sing or teach kirtan songs.

      Other aspiring harmonium players travel to India, or attend a week-long kirtan retreat, spending $1000-$3000 on registration or travel expenses. They arrive home more deeply in love with bhakti and kirtan than ever, but still lacking the tools needed for playing kirtan songs on their own harmonium!

      Even to attend my three-day Beginning Harmonium Intensive at Kripalu Yoga costs $600 for tuition and lodging, plus travel expenses. Those weekend retreats are a lot of fun, but the same progression of material (actually, lots more) is packed into the video lessons in the Bhakti Breakfast Club.

      That's why I'm so excited about this format of sharing harmonium classes with you. It's convenient, it's easy to access, and it enables me to continually add new courses for you as I film them. No travel costs, no expensive hourly fee, no shipping and handling. Just unlimited access to all the harmonium classes you can watch, for $25 a month.

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      I so totally believe that our easy-to-follow courses will get you playing kirtan songs very quickly, and will help you to fall in love with your chanting practice, that it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you aren't completely amazed by the quality of your membership, just get in touch within 30 days for a full refund.

      And if you need to cancel your membership after being a member for some time, that is very easy to do. Just send us a message from the support page (or email us), and we will cancel your membership right away.

      So if you'd like to jump-start your music practice and get rockin' on your harmonium, go ahead and click the "join now" button below. Your membership will be activated immediately. Within a couple minutes you'll get an email confirming your membership, and then you can log in as a member, start watching course videos and start adding courses to your personal queue.

Join now - Get your Bhakti Rockin!

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Unlimited access to all Bhakti Breakfast Club courses - including harmonium lessons, kirtan songs, bhakti stories, guitar, tabla and voice lessons. Watch hundreds of class videos, download kirtan songsheets and audio tracks, and get monthly bonus albums. Join thousands of kirtan lovers who are diving deeper into devotion through cultivating a home bhakti practice. All for $25 a month, charged automatically. Cancel anytime.

join now $25 per month