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Hand Independence Drills

A daily warm-up that wakes both hands and evens out your tone.

Beginner14 min70 BPM

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Key concepts

  • Dayan and bayan doing different things
  • Even volume between hands
  • Warm-up before speed

Practice exercises

  1. 1Na on dayan while Ghe pulses on bayan
  2. 2Ten minutes of slow Dha at one dynamic

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

Practice tempo

70 BPM

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