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Foundations

Foundations

Sitting posture, hand shape, tuning the dayan and keeping the bayan alive.

Beginner12 min60 BPM

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Key concepts

  • Sitting posture and gaddi placement
  • Dayan tuning to the tonic
  • Relaxed wrist and open palm

Practice exercises

  1. 15 min of open Na strokes at 60 BPM
  2. 2Tune the dayan to your tanpura Sa

Today's challenge5 min of open Na strokes at 60 BPM Then play it again 3 BPM faster and keep it clean.

Practice tempo

60 BPM

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