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Tihai Craft

Building three-fold cadences that land exactly where you want them.

Intermediate18 min80 BPM

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Key concepts

  • Phrase × 3 plus gaps
  • Arithmetic of landing on sam
  • Damdar vs bedam tihai

Practice exercises

  1. 1Build a tihai from a 5-bol phrase
  2. 2Place the same tihai in two taals

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

Practice tempo

80 BPM

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