Unlocking Mbira

Features:

• Explore chords, cascades, traditional progressions, popular non-traditional progressions and revoicing from other instruments
• 60 exercises including traditional and non-traditional songs
• Easy to follow notation with audio examples
• Full colour, with key pages duplicated in black and white for easy printing
• Fascinating details about the most popular mbira chord progressions
• Enhance your improvisation toolkit!

Audio Tracks:

60 tracks to accompany every exercise and song in the book. To save time and stay exited, quickly click through to find your favourite examples and only spend time working on the tunes you know you'll love to play. 

All examples are played at least twice. Track length ranges from 10 seconds to over two minutes (with most at around 25 seconds). Recordings are all in Bb Nyamaropa (Devon) tuning except for one in G# Gandanga/Mavembe (Village) tuning.

Notation in 'Position' style - switch between 'Position' and 'Pitch' styles at sympathetic-resonances.org

***Also Included*** Sympathetic Resonances 'Quick-Start' Guide - I use SR to host online notation for some of my resources. This 'quick-start' helps users access that information and enjoy their first visits to this very useful website. Some of the many features include: the ability to switch between 'position' and 'pitch' notation with a couple of clicks, change start points, layer tracks, play-back in a variety of tunings, and transpose songs.

Q: "Why e-books? I prefer a hard copy"

A: With e-books, you get your copy immediately and we protect the environment. No trees cut to make paper, and no fossil fuels used to deliver. The websites I use are also wind-powered! Feel free to print your copy, or the pages you need, as you need them - I've seen some lovely spiral bound versions that people have made.