Pasivillias Tandi & Caution Shonhai: Marenje - Mbira Video Lessons

Learn how to play mbira with Pasivillias Tandi and Caution Shonhai : Marenje video lessons

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  • Two videos. The first ‘warm-up’ recording is followed by a video tutorial to help you learn the traditional mbira song, Marenje

  • Pasivillias and Caution play together on nemakonde tuning (a low gandanga/mavembe mbira tuning closest to the Western scale, F phrygian) instruments made by Leonard Chiyanike

  • In the second video Pasivillias begins with kushaura and Caution follows with kutsinhira

  • Their Marenje note choices match best with mbira chord progression 6

Marenje (warm up) - mbira video lesson with Pasivillias Tandi and Caution Shonhai

Marenje kushaura and kutsinhira - mbira video lesson with Pasivillias Tandi and Caution Shonhai

⭐️/⭐️⭐️ 1.22 - 1.41 (2 cycles of Caution’s Kutsinhira + other variations)


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