Forward Kwenda: Mahororo - Mbira Video Lessons
Learn how to play mbira with Forward Kwenda : Mahororo video lessons
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Six video tutorials to help you learn the traditional mbira song, Mbavarira
Forward teaches basic Kushaura and Kutsinhira variations, combines them together, and demonstrates his unique style of improvisation
He plays in D nyamaropa tuning, close to the Western scale, D Mixolydian - This tuning by Gift Chigede includes an extra low note 2 in the Bass register
Forward’s Mahororo note choices match best with mbira chord progression 1
⭐️ 0.44 - 0.57, ⭐️ 1.49 - 2.03
⭐️⭐️ 0.50 - 1.03, ⭐️⭐️ 1.30 - 1.43, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1.55 - 2.21 (2 cycles)
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1.35 - 1.43, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1.53 - 2.01, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 2.59 - 3.07, ⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5.00 - 5.32 (4 cycles)
Tab pack - typo on last cycle 5.42 should read 5.24.
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