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Mastery & expression
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
- 1Improvise 4 cycles, return to theka
- 2Trade phrases with a recording
Today's challengeTune the dayan to your tanpura Sa Then play it again 3 BPM faster and keep it clean.
Practice tempo
90 BPM
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