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Alto Exercises to Expand Your Skills, Part 1
familiarity with octave and fifth intervals gives the basic foundation for playing traditional mbira music on the Alto kalimba These exercises will help you play traditional mbira music on the Alto kalimba African mbira music is tremendously compelling to me, and I had been working to translate it onto the more accessible Hugh Tracey Alto and Treble kalimbas for months but feeling quite frustrated. I could not find my intuitive wisdom with this traditional music. When it came, the realization was like the sun coming up after a long dark night, and suddenly shining bright on the mountains. The issue was… intervals! (You can hear two wonderful mbira songs right
November 27, 2016
