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Lambodara Lakumikara Guitar Tab

Composer
Purandara Dasa
Year
1484
Key
C
Time
6/8
Tempo
112 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
C4

Lambodara Lakumikara on guitar

The full melody, rendered as six-string guitar tab in standard tuning you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

Tuning: E A D G B e (standard) · Strum: D - - - - -

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Lyrics

Bar 1 — Lambodara lakumikara

Bar 3 — Ambasuta amaravinuta

Bar 5 — Lambodara lakumikara

Bar 7 — Ambasuta amaravinuta

Purandara Dasa (1484–1564), raga Malahari — public domain.

How to practise this on guitar

Lambodara Lakumikara is in C and the tab opens on C4 — find that fret, settle your hand there, and notice how little it has to move: the arrangement is worked out with a fret-hand position economy, so consecutive notes stay under your fingers instead of leaping up and down the neck. Read the numbers, not the note names: string line plus fret is the whole instruction, and an open string costs you nothing.

Play it well under around 112 BPM with a metronome and let each note ring into the next — the tails under the numbers show you how long. When your take review marks a bar, loop just that bar until the fret-hand shift inside it feels automatic, then rejoin the line. Speed is the last thing you add, never the first. By the numbers, this setting runs 44 notes across 8 bars, from C4 up to A♭4 in 6/8 time.

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