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HAPI / Tongue Drum musical instrument

Core repertoire

Improvisation

Free melodic exploration inside the scale.

Advanced18 min75 BPM

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Key concepts

  • Melodic contour
  • Call and response
  • Dynamic shaping

Practice exercises

  1. 1Improvise over a drone
  2. 2Answer your own phrase

Today's challengeSame phrase, fingers then mallets Then play it again 3 BPM faster and keep it clean.

Practice tempo

75 BPM

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