November 12, 2016

A close look at the inner workings of the mbira song “Taireva” reveals remarkable and quirky details Mbira music is elusive. You think you understand it, you reach to grasp it, but then it slips through your fingers. There are in truth many ways to understand mbira music – and you learn to strive to come to the place where you touch all of those understandings without holding any. In another blog post, I give away the tablature for the song “Taireva,” for both mbira and C Alto kalimba.   In this post I detail some of the more subtle aspects of traditional mbira music, using “Taireva” to help in the