Forward Kwenda: Nyamaropa - Mbira Video Lessons

Learn how to play mbira with Forward Kwenda : Nyamaropa video lessons

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• Five video tutorials to help you learn the traditional mbira song, Nyamaropa

• 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 Nyamaropa note choices match best with mbira chord progression 1

• Filmed at Great Zimbabwe (first and last video), and Beatrice

Nyamaropa Kushaura and Kutsinhira - basic mbira video lesson with Forward Kwenda

⭐️⭐️ 3.39 - 3.54 (Kushaura) , ⭐️⭐️ 5.09 - 5.23 (Kushaura), ⭐️⭐️ 6.06 - 6.48 (‘Kushaura Highline Variations’ pack - 3 cycles), ⭐️⭐️ 8.54 - 9.18 (Kutsinhira - 2 cycles)

Nyamaropa Kushaura and Kutsinhira ‘combined’ - mbira video lesson with Forward Kwenda

⭐️⭐️ 3.36 - 3.47, ⭐️⭐️ 4.30 - 4.41, ⭐️⭐️ 5.58 - 6.08

Nyamaropa Kushaura - advanced mbira video lesson / improvisation with Forward Kwenda

Nyamaropa Kutsinhira - advanced mbira video lesson / improvisation with Forward Kwenda

Nyamaropa ‘Full Forward Kwenda Style’ - advanced mbira video lesson / improvisation

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 0.48 - 1.23 (‘3 Consecutive Cycles’ pack)

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