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History & Overview of the Sitar
Sitar Droning & Choosing a Teacher
How To Tune a Sitar
How To Hold a Sitar
Using a Pick When Playing a Sitar
Play a Sitar on the Frets
Basic Scales on a Sitar
How To Change Frets on a Sitar
Playing Pulls on a Sitar
What is a Raga in Sitar Playing?
Improvisation on a Sitar
Playing a Sitar with Various Beats
Improvisation Technique for Sitar
Raga Differences for Sitar
Basic Exercises for Sitar
Pull Exercises for Sitar
Right Hand Exercises for Sitar
Playing the Sympathetic Strings on a Sitar
Playing Pulse-Like Patterns on a Sitar
Sitar Playing Time Signatures
Music Demo on Sitar
Summary: A raga is a sitar piece of music that incorporates a scale with a melody of sorts. Learn to play the sitar ragas from an authentically trained player in this free sitar video lesson.
Daisy Paradis is a teacher at Lotus Music and Dance in New York City. She is one of the few Americans who can give a pure and authentic rendition of North Indian classical music. An...read more
"In this clip we're going to talk about what is a raga. If you're not familiar with a raga, this is one of the harder things to understand and puzzled me a great deal, when I started studying Indian music. You could define a raga as being kind of a combination of a scale and a musical composition. A raga is a scale. It's a pattern for ascending, a pattern for descending. It may be the same series, seven notes up, seven notes down or it might be pentatonic going up, seven notes going down. It has a heart, a little melody that occurs over and over, that doesn't belong to any other raga and it has a king note and a minister note, which is usually notes where you end up a lot or you, which are very prominent, in the rod. This rod, for example, is a rod."
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