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

Mahororo kushaura - mbira video lesson with Forward Kwenda

⭐️ 0.44 - 0.57, ⭐️ 1.49 - 2.03

Mahororo kutsinhira - mbira video lesson with Forward Kwenda

⭐️⭐️ 0.50 - 1.03, ⭐️⭐️ 1.30 - 1.43, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1.55 - 2.21 (2 cycles)

Mahororo kushaura and kutsinhira combined - mbira video lesson with Forward Kwenda

Mahororo kushaura - advanced mbira video lesson ‘Forward Kwenda Style’

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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.

Mahororo kutsinhira - advanced mbira video lesson ‘Forward Kwenda Style’

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


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