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You wirds have brought tears to my eyes... being away from my country. Excellent wording, perfect subtle concise and comprehensive. 🙏

Excellent work... Sha-da-ja (not shadja)

Raaga... also comes from ... Raag(a) => Passion => to color

Phenomenal

I thought sitar was a pun name, cuz you sit on the floor while play sitar

Sitar should be given the title of the national classical musical instrument of India. It makes you feel so happy.

amazing art

Good Lord!

very informative video!

Great info brother 👍❤

Is it only time and effort or a healthy (neuro) body too that is required to reach those achievements?

Thank you for your history lesson always wondered I been playing Sitar for a wail and it's an incredible experience indeed 🙌 ❤ spiritual instrument and then the Gurudev came to visit ❤amazing life indeed Amazing culture to experience 👏 ❤🙏💐♥️

This is an outstanding introduction! I have also struggled with time constraints and my shortest intro to Hindustani music is about 90 minutes. It takes a lot of work and skill to do a good intro in less than 13 minutes as you have done here. I will take issue with some of the history, however. From the time that the first Mogul Emperor Akbar convinced Mian Tansen to come to his palace, absolute patronage of royal court musicians became widespread in many of the hundreds of Princely States headed by Hindu Maharajas or Muslim Nawabs. For whatever animosity that may have existed between Hindus and Muslims in other aspects of Indian society, their peaceful coexistence among Hindustani musicians transcended competition and conflict. That legacy is abundantly apparent today. Maestros with the Muslim title of Ustad and the Hindu title of Pandit are equal in every respect, Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan being a famous example. It was the integration of the Princely States between 1947 and 1950 that put an end to the court musicians. Centuries of patronage came to an abrupt end. Before the British packed-up and left India, theaters were not available to Indians. Hindustani music was developed and refined in the royal courts. Only after independence were musicians required to sell tickets and perform for the general public. Allaudin Khan had secured for his son, Ali Akbar, an appointment as court musician to the Maharaja of Jodhpur. He was unable to find such a position for his other student, Ravi Shankar. But since Shankar had been on tour with his famous brother Uday, his guru suggested he try to make a living with concert performances in Europe. By force of circumstances, court musicians, like Ali Akbar Khan, were kicked to the streets, and Ravi Shankar became the example of how to survive. So, it wasn't a gradual increase in Hindustani music's popularity. It was the end of royal patronage and availability of concert halls that necessitated the transition. I think we have past the golden age of Hindustani music. Surely you have seen Indian audiences that pay little attention to the performance, not unlike European aristocrats suffering through an opera because it's the high class thing to do. I am heartened to see a genuine interest in preserving and continuing this music. But taking classes from a non-profit foundation is nothing like being a resident musician at a royal court. The music can only fade if it depends on the general public for its survival. It flourished in the courts of kings. But those days are over. Concerted efforts to educate the public are the only chance we have of preserving this most amazing musical phenomenon. What you are doing gives me hope. Bless you!

Thank you for putting this together, a really enjoyable watch. I start most days with either Ravi Shankar or Pandit Banerjee. I’m slowly learning more about it and I would love to one day have a go on a Sitar. I’ve never even seen one in real life, yet I have loved the buzz since I was a teenager several decades ago.

Sir, can you give the notes for this tune for sitar. I want to try on my sitar too. Gratitude 🙏

Beautiful performance, touches the soul. 🎶🙏🏼🔮

好听！

Just like Amir khusro, Vilayat Khan is overly credited for many things. He adopted all the techniques of sitar from Mohammad khan . His music sounds very sad and dull. Contrast to his tone , Ravi Shankar sound more bright and colourful with much musical depth and purity. Vilayat Khan's style is very repetitive and very unnecessarily long.

Magnifique 🇮🇳

Beautiful sound! From abarán, Murcia, Spain!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and study of this subject of magical music, much appreciated! Very informative. ✨❤️🙏

Hey buddy! You can’t afford to not include ‘Ustad Irshaad khaan’, the son of Imrat khan and nephew of Vilayat khan sahab. It’s very wrong. He is among the torchbearers of the Imdadkhani gharana. The Grandson of Ianayat khan Saab, how can you exclude him.

This music heals me 🥰

Great approach, keep up the good work!

Eternal performance.

Wonderful to see this. As a sitar player yes it was the allure of the effect the music has to queit the constantly thinking mind which brought me to devote myself to hindustani music. The sargam syllables literally replace the speech of inner thought with melodies.

Nor we are Indians nor Hindustani we are Bharatiya

Excellent performence.

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As a student of Hindustani Classical Music from India I feel proud of our glorious legacy. I appreciate very much that people from various countries are following and taking interest in learning sincerely Hindustani Classical Music. I loved this Sitar recital in raag Bageshree. I know how much dedication is required to attain this level of expertise in Hindustani Classical Music. Credit to all the artists.

Beautiful.. where did you learn sitar?

Its a insidious attempt to islamize our hindu musical history by these pseudo intellectuals. Sitar comes from veena.

You should take a look at some of the historical writings on the effects/moods of the various raags on humans. I think your studies rely too much on psychosocial theories and not on historical evidence. I say this as someone who has studied Hindustani music from both a historical/cultural and performance/practice standpoint (sitar, dilruba) for more than 50 years. I also suggest learning one of the major languages of North India. But I think you have hit on to a new aspect of studying the music, so please continue to explore this aspect!

It is worth reviewing and considering deeply ,many points you have made in this video …It will be a topic of STUDY for me with critical evaluation ! Thanks !

Listening to your analysis based on your personal experience and validated by experience of your Guruji Debashish ji was a spiritual experience for me. I exclaimed words like, exactly, so true, wow and many more spiritual confirmations from my non-reflective self. Your analysis is spot on and absolutely correct. Naad Brahma is Om, the primordial sound of Silence, sound of the Big Bang; the loudest sound of silence no one heard! Musically it is experienced in moments of self awareness. I was impressed by Shri Debashish saying that it takes a few hours to come out of such absorptive state. I would love to connect with you because there is so much to share. How can I connect? You omitted your name in your moment of self-awareness!

A lot of good music in this video! I started sitar in 1970. In 1981 I attended University of Hawaii for which I received an MA in ethnomusicology in 1985. Then I attended UCLA to work on my PhD. I am also interested in musical affect. I call it music as a "psychotechnology" ie a tool of personal. transformation. I find your approach speculative and philosphical; it is not scholarly. The good news is that human brain wave states are empirically measurable. I attended a composium on "Music and Trance" at UCLA. The components of music which faciltate alternate states.

love the fact that this happened on a rock band stage

Amazing

I am #369

100% right you

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Hi, I have recently completed my honours in music. Could I read your thesis?

Beautifully explained. Here the emphasis is on the performer who achieves state of Bliss but the listener can also be blissful forgetting who he she os🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

This was a great study, appreciate all the work you put into it. As an aspiring sitarist myself, many of your points resonate with my learning journey

Even Sacred Gregorian Chants affects us. It's really helpful

Lajawaab peshkash, lilting, soothing raga

Great video. Glad to see someone exploring this magical music. I suddenly got into indian music about five years ago. And now a day doesnt go past without me listening to it or trying to play it. I really feel its the kind of music that you have to learn in order to really understand. I have a surbahar a sitar and sarod and cant really decide which one i love more. Those moments of bliss, or maybe even ecstasy, you mention from my experience are when im playing an my eyes close and suddenly my fingers start strumming these different layers of rythym and melody and i dont know quite where the intent is coming from and where im going with it. Its all very mysterious to me and thats what keeps me coming back for more. It truly is a lifetime undertaking where you have to leave the ego at the door to even grasp a drop of its wonder!

Namaste! Interesting PhD topic Are you still doing work on this. I would like to see this psychologically

Good, interesting, all the best 👍

Great job sir 👏