Khamaj - Alap - 11 | Sitar Practice with Scenes of Nature and Art | Music Meditation

Japanese maples are glowing with light and colour; happiness and sadness together. The bright red marigolds say a last goodbye. In the morning, there is ice forming in the Tsukubai; it won’t be long now until the snow flies and hides the stepping stones. It is hard to believe it will be winter again soon, when, on a final warm day, we open the sliding door and let the wind dance through the house. As the leaves fall, there is much work to be done. All the leaves will be gathered so that the moss will have enough light to grow. The roses are hilled up with soil to protect their crowns from the harsh cold. If only we could bring the Nuthatch into the warm house with us! We have grown attached, like the few leaves that remain clinging to a naked tree. The first snowfall arrives. There has been much suffering and sorrow in this year. We have hoped to make something beautiful of it still. We will rest now. Filmed from November 4th to November 22nd, 2020. - Miranda Stone
Full series playlist: shorturl.at/depsZ
If you are new to this video series, you may want to watch the following videos first:
Introduction to 12 Sitar Practice Videos - tinyurl.com/KhamajSitarIntro
Ornamentation and Notation - tinyurl.com/SitarOrnamentation
Tuning the Sitar: A Quick Checkup - tinyurl.com/SitarTuning5min
How to Tune the Sitar : 30 minute version - tinyurl.com/SitarTuning30min
Suggested Loops for Practice:
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Practice the 1st new phrase:
Without meend: 3:33-3:50
Single note meend: 4:33-4:48
Advanced meend: 4:50-5:05
Practice the 2nd new phrase:
Without meend: 6:01-6:26
Without meend (with pull-offs) - 6:26-6:53
Single note meend: 6:52-7:18
Advanced meend: 9:47-10:12
Practice both phrases together:
Without meend: 10:57-11:39
Single note meend: 12:19-13:02
Advanced meend: 15:13-15:56
Birds in this video:
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 4:56
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 9:57
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 10:32
Red-breasted Nuthatches- 11:24
Filmed by Miranda Stone
Edited by Miranda Stone and Chris Hale
Audio recording by Chris Hale
Audio mastered by Matt James
If you have any questions, comments, or inquiries about lessons, feel free to write to Chris through his website at ChristopherHaleSitar.com/contact

[@victorcabellojimenez5188]

Great🙏💜🙏

[@narayanchandrakarmakar7012]

Good afternoon. Sir. I am playing on Alap of Raag Khamraj. I have recorded all from 01 to 11.I loved Pandit Nikhil Banarjee from my heart. I saw him physically in the 1974 on playing Raag Bihag in broadcasting the same In All India Radio at that time at Imphal Manipur India

[@SitarToronto]

This is really wonderful to hear! What an amazing thing to have seen Panditji in concert in 1974, playing Raag Bihag, which was being broadcasted. I wonder if All India Radio is releasing this recordings on RUclips?

[@narayanchandrakarmakar7012]

❤❤❤

[@SitarToronto]

Thank you!