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		<title>MbiraTab Volume 1</title>
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Dear Friends,
I am very excited to announce the release of my latest web offering. MbiraTab is a new series of mbira transcriptions in tablature notation. Each volume in the series explores four classic mbira tunes in the style of presentation first used in my 2001 book, Learning Mbira: A Beginning… In essence, this new series picks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bmichaelwilliams.com/news/?p=293</link>
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		<title>Winthrop Students Tour Ludwig Industries</title>
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The Winthrop University percussion studio recently toured Ludwig Industries in Monroe, NC. I remember touring Ludwig when they were located on N. Damen Avenue in Chicago while attending graduate school at Northwestern University in 1976. In the early 1980s the entire facility was moved to North Carolina. Many of those old machines I saw in action [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bmichaelwilliams.com/news/?p=259</link>
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		<title>Artie Lieberman&#8217;s Mallet Instrument Service</title>
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I first met Artie Lieberman through Peyton Becton, Principal Percussionist with the Charlotte Symphony, several years ago (see the post from October &#8216;09 about Peyton&#8217;s recent visit to Winthrop here). I was playing with the symphony and made a remark to Peyton about their new orchestra bells. Peyton said, &#8220;They&#8217;re not new. Artie Lieberman refurbished them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bmichaelwilliams.com/news/?p=199</link>
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		<title>Shumba Ya Ngwasha Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello All,
I recently revisited Chartwell&#8217;s Shumba YaNgwasha in nemakonde tuning and discovered some errors in my original transcription. Check out the original post and you&#8217;ll find the corrected version, which includes some funky additions of the RT 1 key  (on beat 2 in the 3rd and 4th quarters) that I had simply neglected earlier, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bmichaelwilliams.com/news/?p=188</link>
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		<title>Taireva Basic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a version of the mbira piece &#8220;Taireva&#8221; that is a bit different from the one published in my book, &#8220;Learning Mbira: A Beginning&#8230;&#8221;  I call it &#8220;Taireva Basic&#8221; because it really is a more basic version, and includes the essential melodic material of the vocal melody. This basic melody can be heard by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bmichaelwilliams.com/news/?p=153</link>
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		<title>Peyton Becton at Winthrop University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peyton Becton, Principal Percussionist with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, presented a clinic on orchestral percussion techniques at Winthrop University October 2nd, 2009. Peyton covered essential techniques and repertoire for snare drum and tambourine.


 
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		<link>http://www.bmichaelwilliams.com/news/?p=171</link>
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		<title>NAFDA South CANCELLED :-(</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very sorry to report that the NAFDA South event in the Atlanta area scheduled for September 12 has been cancelled. The NAFDA leadership made a valiant effort, but as the date drew closer there were too few pre-registered participants. My understanding is that they will go back to the drawing board and look into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bmichaelwilliams.com/news/?p=167</link>
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		<title>NAFDA South &#8211; Atlanta 9/12/09</title>
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Dear Friends,
This is a terrific opportunity to immerse yourself in frame drumming for a day in the Atlanta area September 12. You get five workshops with notable frame drum experts plus an evening concert for just $100! I think it&#8217;s a great deal. My students and I will be there performing some new works in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bmichaelwilliams.com/news/?p=157</link>
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		<title>Kariga Mombe Basic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a transcription of Kariga Mombe in tablature notation. Kariga Mombe means &#8220;taking the bull by the horns.&#8221; It is a song about determination. This is a the basic version that most beginners play. In my book, Learning Mbira: A Beginning&#8230;, this is the same as the standard kushaura without the right index finger.  I&#8217;ve found that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bmichaelwilliams.com/news/?p=132</link>
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		<title>Chartwell Dutiro&#8217;s Shumba ya Ngwasha</title>
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This is a transcription in tablature notation of Chartwell Dutiro&#8217;s version of &#8220;Shumba ya Ngwasha&#8221; (Ngwasha&#8217;s version of Shumba), played in nemakonde tuning. Nemakonde is a very low tuning (low E) in phrygian mode. A higher-pitched version of this tuning is called &#8220;gandanga.&#8221; Chartwell&#8217;s performance is elegant in its simplicity. There are no variations, and [...]]]></description>
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