Forward Kwenda: Mukatiende - Mbira Video Lessons
Learn how to play mbira with Forward Kwenda : Mukatiende video lessons
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Eleven video tutorials to help you learn the traditional mbira song, Mukatiende (Bhukatiende / Bukatiende / Bhuka Tiende)
This was the first song we recorded - filming the first six videos before I’d managed to unpack my bags
Forward then teaches basic Kushaura and Kutsinhira variations, 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 Mukatiende note choices match best with mbira chord progression 6
Mukatiende Request Pack 1 : ⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️ 0.18 - 0.56 (3 cycles)
Mukatiende Request Pack 1 : ⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️ 0.08 - 0.55 (3 cycles)
Mukatiende Request Pack 1 : ⭐️/⭐️⭐️ 0.13 - 1.37 (7 cycles), ⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1.37 - 3.23 (9 cycles), ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3.23 - 3.56 (3 cycles), ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.31 - 4.54 (2 cycles), ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5.52 - 6.51 (5 cycles)
⭐️ 0.40 - 0.52, ⭐️ 3.05 - 3.16
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3.26 - 3.36, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 9.16 - 9.26
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 0.30 - 0.40, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1.15 - 1.26
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 0.52 - 1.15 (2 cycles)
Mukatiende Request Pack 2 : ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 9.51 - 13.13 (26 cycles!)
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