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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.
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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