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Improvisation

Building spontaneous phrases from your kayda vocabulary.

Advanced22 min90 BPM

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Key concepts

  • Vocabulary recombination
  • Question and answer phrasing
  • Returning to theka

Practice exercises

  1. 1Improvise 4 cycles, return to theka
  2. 2Trade phrases with a recording

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

Practice tempo

90 BPM

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