Forward Kwenda: Shumba - Mbira Video Lesson
Learn how to play mbira with Forward Kwenda : Shumba video lesson
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One video tutorial to help you learn the traditional mbira song, Shumba
Forward teaches kushaura, kutsinhira, and performs his own style of improvisation
Recorded 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
Filmed at Great Zimbabwe
Forward’s Shumba note choices match best with mbira chord progression 6 raised (713 614 624 725)
Shumba is typically played in mbira chord progression 1 raised (235 136 146 247) where the typical left hand note phrase 77 64 ‘belongs’ to its raised chords (7 and 2)
In these variations you’ll hear 5 24 32 at that point in the song (spanning the raised chords, 5 and 7)
⭐️⭐️ 0.31 - 0.44 (‘Basic’ Kushaura) , ⭐️⭐️ 1.22 - 2.00 (‘Basic’ Kutsinhira - 3 cycles), ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.33 - 5.32 (‘Full’ - 6 cycles)
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