Not all playing on the handpan needs to be heard! Does that sound absurd? It doesn't mean we don't want to hear you, it means that some of your notes need to be intentionally quiet-enough-they-can't-be-heard or in other words, "ghosted". The ghosting technique involves tapping your finger on the note ever so softly that it simulates playing the note but doesn't actually sound the note, the purpose being that players can recreate certain more advanced rhythms by just playing their most comfortable quaver (1/2 beat) or semiquaver (1/4 beat) rhythms and then ghosting some of the notes, ultimately to make it sound like they are playing a new rhythmic pattern after all. Enough said, watch the video!
