I'm really in love with this lesson! Anjua Kamat explains everything in such a way that's easy to follow and understand. Her love for Indian classical music is intoxicating! Raags are essential part of Indian culture, and as a vocal coach, I always enjoy learning new things and expanding my horizons - it helps me gain new knowledge in music but even more importantly, grow as a person.
This was about HINDUSTANI classic music which is north indian classical music also try to listen and react also to CARNATIC classical music which is south indian classical music. both are extraordinary cultures both are great. Try also reacting to Carnatic music
Interesting to see this ! It is actually quite hard to explain Indian Classical (North or South) to Westerners, since Western music is built on very different concepts than Indian classical (obviously). I have been studying Indian music since 1964 when I began taking a class with the famous artist Ustad Ali Akbar Khan in California at the American Society for Eastern Arts, and continued with him for 25 years. A long story ! I teach sitar, also learned some vocal, and continue to study. In my first month I spent a lot of time asking Khansahib "What is a raga ?" He: "A raga is "the melody that haunts you" Me:"I don't understand !" ("A Hard Days Night" is a melody that haunts me, or "Esurientes Implevit Bonis" -- but they are not ragas !). Khansahib: "Just practice." Me: (silently"--but-but- I'm a COLLEGE student ! I'm SUPPOSED to understand things !! That's my JOB !! ") Anyway, decades later --to sum things up as I would in a lecture-demo for a Western college class: To put it somewhat crudely, a raga is kind of a cross between a melody and a road map of how you can move up and down in the scale. It can be performed in any key the performer prefers. Each raga has a separate and distinct "heart" or theme (and sometimes more than one). Ragas have boundaries as well, and sometimes common territory, but after you sing the shared part you better make it clear by returning to the uniquely owned territory, which rag it is you are singing. If you don't, the learned people in the audience will get upset. "Sargam" (which you sang) is exactly the same as solfege. (Sa is "do", etc.) Indian classical music developed pitch, melodic systems, rhythmic systems and improvisation to a very high degree. Harmony-zippo. (You can't do EVERYTHING at the same time, after all !). Western music uses harmony as a kind of meta-melody, which we enjoy a great deal. But it also approaches melody in a much more restricted way than Indian music. (There are many other systems of music as well, which I can't speak about). Indian music uses and enjoys much more common use of flatted seconds, sharped fourths and flatted sixths. In Western music you hear these more as leading tones in harmonic modulation. Traditional Western music regards a plain old flatted second, sharped fourth or flatted sixth as atonal or unpleasing. In Indian music there is use of slides, or microtones, or meend. But a meend is really more akin to what in jazz is called a "blue note". In learning to do meend you need to listen very carefully to learn and hear precisely what microtones you should be imitating and which ones you should leave out, lest you sound like a train whistle. All microtones are NOT created equally. Oh, and Anujaji is NOT singing nasally ! I made that mistake back in the 80's. The esteemed vocal teacher Pandit A.T. Kanan, who I had the great priviledge to learn from briefly for a few months, corrected me. It took about two weeks of daily class and riaz before I could stop singing nasally. He was a genius and his advanced students are some of India's best-known artists today. One needs to listen seriously and carefully to imprint the correct style in one's ear and mind. A music student cannot rush this step. I should also mention that Indian classical rhythm is one of the great art forms of the world. Just one example: The tabla literature --eg, the compositions created by all the great tabla gurus and performers over the centuries --can only be compared to all piano literature, or all western vocal literature in it's range, imagination and stylistic variety. Top tabla players, as well as other drummers from both North and South, and many instrumentalists and dancers as well, can play in rhythm cycles of 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11,12, 13, 16 (of course) as well as 10 1/2, and other odd numbers.
I have completed Indian classical music course... it's called "Bisaharad" or Bachelor of Music, the course was of 6 Years...I am still not perfect... every good Indian singers like Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam etc etc have dedicated most of there life learning Indian classical music... that's how they became so perfect
Some western equivalents of the terms used by Anuja.. Audav=pentatonic Shadav=hexatonic Sampoorn=heptatonic Raag Yaman(minus the rules)=Lydian mode Chalan=no equivalent, but it literally translates to how the melodic scale moves (chal = to go/move in Hindi and Sanskrit) There are no quarter notes in Indian raags, Indian music uses the same 12 notes as the western chromatic scale, the technique she uses is called meend(think Kanswar the notes that Anuja says hi to), meaning she slides into a note from another, difficult to replicate with a piano, but you can with a stringed instrument like a guitar. Think bending the string to slide upwards by a step. Indians, feel free to correct the conceptual equivalents..
@@sohamojha this is what I've found in Google. The basic mode of reference is that which is equivalent to the Western Ionian mode or major scale (called Bilaval thaat in Hindustani music, Dheerashankarabharanam in Carnatic). All relationships between pitches follow from this. In any seven-tone mode (starting with S), R, G, D, and N can be natural (shuddha, lit. 'pure') or flat (komal, 'soft') but never sharp, and the M can be natural or sharp (teevra) but never flat, making twelve notes as in the Western chromatic scale. If a swara is not natural (shuddha), a line below a letter indicates that it is flat (komal) and an acute accent above indicates that it is sharp (teevra, 'intense'). Sa and Pa are immovable (once Sa is selected), forming a just perfect fifth. And I've learnt Carnatic classical. What is said here is consistent with what I've learnt.
Actually Indian Music has 22Shrutis.. 12notes are the Pure and Sharp notes, there are some Middle notes as well.. you can search for the 22shruti Harmonium.. you will get to know more about the Shrutis
This amazing to watch, I have met Anuja Kamat at a Tedx Event, she is amazing and talented artist . it got me interested in indian classical music when I was watching few of her videos on YT.
Dear H, actually for answering to you thought on, pa-re relationship...In fact the sad story about Indian Classical singing is that Indian themselves don't really use the classical ancient term of their own musical treatise with their own connotations, but rather use a mix of english technical terms like Notes, Scales, Modes, that do not relate to their music neither to our - which most of the time they do not know - this result in many misunderstanding and we miss the most interesting points... What a Râga is, cannot be defined by words, and this concept is expressivly conceived for this purpose of not being explainable...Calan (chalan) is good entry point to understand the major difference between scale oriented musicology and Râga oriented musicology. Calan is not a simple set of melody...it's actually a way to define the shape of the râga itsef (svarupa). Inside the calan itself, the notions of aroha - avaroha is imbeded in the set of phrases that the musician/singer will "develop" to "speak" the râga, for "shaping" the raga in real time. The calan contain informations about the relations that each Svara (which are not notes, it's a different concept even if as westerner we would say it's notes) have with others in the râga, they can be linked with a meend (like PA-RE), or just Kan (like Ga befor RE). In the calan (in Dhrupad) the relation of timing is also made clear. So there is actually layers and layers of informations not just 2 or 3...that's why we speak about knowing a Râga as a personality or entity. All these layers of information unfold only with practice and dedication, it's not really about "set of rules"...hope it helps a bit to understand that this is really interesting to dive into this beautifull musical culture.
You are not allowed to break rules because it changes the mood, it changes the emotions the raag wants to invoke. These raags have evolved over thousands of years and many great singers, musicians have developed new raags.
Omg, yes, the western musical understanding of what is kan-swar is, is spot on! That's exactly what it is: touching other notes, but with the pronunciation of the previous notes (and obviously the available notes depend on the specific raag). I was so happy when you had that little eureka moment, ahaha, loved the video!
Bro I'm seriously telling you once you learn indian classical you can sing nearly all types of songs (even western). There are some videos of indian singers singing western songs if you can check them out
@@HofTheStage ruclips.net/video/xSQ6Sri4nmQ/видео.html ...part 2 of indian singers singing English songs and ruclips.net/video/gTlETY9NGQw/видео.html ..this is part 1 part 2 is little more interesting
ruclips.net/video/AIPraIlSmIk/видео.html this is the link for gamakas the way we We move between the notes it's like kan swars but there are some types
That is a bit of an overstatement. I did not enjoy Lata Mangeshkar singing an American song. Each style has its own character and not everyone can adapt.
@@HofTheStage @10:42 Why are you afraid in trying. You are doing great. You are a trained artist, it won't take much time for you to learn this. Besides, I myself is a singer and I can assure you that Hindustani Classical Music helps you immensely. It makes everyone self sufficient and you won't need any kind of auto-tune to hit crazy notes. Again "YOU ARE DOING MARVELLOUSLY, JUST BE CONFIDENT".....
Anuja is a brilliant instructor and you are a perfect student.The dedication you show to this session is amazing.Wish you and Anuja healthy and peaceful life
Foreigners appreciate our music and culture so much... Today's generation should really value this and make a name for themselves here and globally... I hope our educational institutions introduce fine arts which can help in total development...
At 14:42 “ Chalan” means literally “ walking “ she saying that although nodes are same but while “walking” through Raag duration of that particular node to sing is different in different Raag.. some raag you need to sing same node longer and in some you sing shorter.. You are good.. appreciated man..👍
Out of the 4 most holiest books in Hinduism which are also the oldest written books in the world. 1 is completely dedicated to song. It's called 'Sama Veda'
Audav = penta, Shadav = hexa, Sampoorn means complete. There are 7 natural notes, so sampoorn means 7 notes. In the ascending and descending if 7 notes are used then its Sampoorn Jati or Heptatonic scale. If the same goes for 5 notes then its Pentatonic scale or audav jati. Thus, 6 notes in ascend and descend then its Hexatonic scale or Shaadav Jati. If you want to know more then I can explain further.
7 notes in Indian classical music r notes to eternity. First note Sa activates Muladhar. Each note represent chakra. Muladhar to Sahstrar. It's beauty of ICM (Indian classical music) ❤️
At 9:30 when you start playing along with her, there is an extremely slight variation at each note. That is the difference between the equitempered scaled the the harmonic scale. (She is pitch perfect)
She didnt explain what are the indians notes ( sa re ma pa...), thats why you struggle to understand half of what she was speaking... Indian notes for western musicians are not the stable notes, but they the intervals. First note "sa" is chosen by vocalist according to his vocal range , for example it can be western D key. Next note Re is higher on one tone , (or semitone if its Re-komal), Ga - one tone more from Re and so on. Intervals basically are similar to western CDEFGAB and 12 semitones in octave system (but not all the time , just not to make comment too big explaining quarter-tone and other things).
Yessss! I was scrolling to see if someone had already explained this to save myself the effort of doing so 😁. I think our friend here has not realized that Sa, re, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni, sa are the notes of a "Floating Scale", much like the Western Do, re, me, fa, so, la, te, do. Edit: My bad. Near the end of the video, he shows that he knows they are a floating scale. Sorry! This was a great video!
THIS TOTALLY MADE MY DAY!! I really hate to say it, but we Indians DONT value what we have. Its a shame that we arnt taught about music at our school, we are only taught about stupid history which wont even matter! If a foreign guy loves dis so much, it means something.
it doesnt mean anything, he's a professional, he recognizes the beauty in the art of indian classical music. Pros in indian classical music will also have a lot of positive things to say about western classical opera or chinese, japanese classical music. indian classical music is an inseparable part of our culture and history, it evolved through ages to get to this form. nothing is useless. what she's teaching is taught in medium levels in classical music schools in india.
Yes, we neither owned and worked to spread yoga, neither did we do that for classical music - which is by far the most effective method of vocal training and musical thinking.
Blame the east india company's hold on india to destroy our culture and we are fools to accept it and admire western Abrahamic mixed dirty songs in our entertainment Do you let your children learn Indian classical songs or instrument or the western instruments? ??? Older gen forced children to learn classical music or instruments But now everyone wants to become westernised why ??? But brain washing in convents to slowly convert to country into an Abrahamic culture starts with arts and entertainment So ensure you your children learn Indian music instruments etc
I usually do not comment on videos, but I throughly enjoyed watching 2 music experts appreciate music. Even though you were watching her video it seemed like you both were having a beauty conversation about the feeling of music. Thank you for this beautiful video!
Very few know the names of the svar Sa-shadaj Re-rishabh Ga-gandhar Ma- madhyam Pa-pancham Dha- dhaivat Ni-nishad..... I learnt in my first year(praveshika)
I have learned singing for like 6 years, I don't sing much now but when I do my friends get surprised being completely unknown of the fact that I can sing. The way he just played it at 9:44 is amazing! It took me whole 3 years of practice to master that on a Harmonium or u might know it as Reed Organ! This guy really knows what he is doing and he is amazing! I subscribed just now!
A raag is not just a set of musical rules. Those just form the guidelines. A raag is a highly abstract concept, REPRESENTING a mood/emotion some times, which is attempted to be "realized" by an artist as per their capacity. So what an artist really sings/plays is just one example in which a raag can be "realized". Every artist "sees" the raag in a slightly different way and interpretes it in their own way. That becomes that artist's thought about that raag. Further, a single artist's vision of a raag can evolve with their musical journey. So the raag realization changes every time the same artist performs. A nearly perfect analogy to all this that can make everything simple is in languages. Indian classical music is a "language" on its own. The notes are like letters. Phrases of notes are like words, and sentences. In this analogy, a raag will be like a specific point/thought/emotion to be argued or put forward or expressed. There are rules of grammar that make good/bad sentence construction. But when you speak few sentences or a paragraph, you don't use the same words every time . Every time you want to make a specific point, even the same point, you will use different set of unique word combinations. And to make the same point, different people will use completely different words/sentences. But there are still patterns. Like if one wishes to express politeness thru words, NO one will use the words "go to hell" in that paragraph. Similar structural rules aka "grammar" exists for every raag. But that doesn't limit any possibility of diverse ways of expressing the same thought/emotion. This analogy with linguistic grammar rules is even TECHNICALLY the perfect fitting one. In this analogy, a raag is simply a "thought" to be expressed via combinations of musical words/letters (phrases, notes). And just like spoken language, it's not just about WHAT words are spoken to make a point, but HOW they are spoken is also important. The cadence/diction, in this analogy is what is called Chalan. The tempo of speech is Lay in Indian music. There's no better analogy imho. Indian music is STRUCTURALLY simply a "language built out of notes to express musical thoughts aka mood/emotion". Hence it naturally allows for infinte creativity, just like poetry in language. in this analogy, what's a poem in words, is a bandish in music.
Impressed by the singers understanding and your interpretation of the same. You both are genuine in your own space. I always wanted to see an opposite video where some western styles, notation are explained by how it's been taught in classical Indian. Tough to grapple western notes if you already know classical Indian. just my experience.
Brother appreciate your interest and efforts to learn raags. Like the way you observe things in the tutorial. It completely shows that you truly want to understand this and not just want a video to increase viewership... Love n respect bro....
10:10 , 11:05 the transitioning sounds are called Shruti: The transitioning sound to connect two notes. He mentions again at 12:14. Also to better understand Indian Music , map the notes to your system. Translate the rules to your notations. eg. He collected notation for raag Yaman. now he needs to note down the rules about which specific combination of notes are allowed and which are unacceptable as per the rules. Note: this is to be done only to analyze it, Avoid translations to learn it! Mind you that this is for her scale only. This notes are note absolute. Everyone has their own scale and the notes scale down or up in the same order. Raag Yaman notes as he quoted--> sa: b re: c# ga: d# ma(tivra): f pa: f# dha: g# ni: a# sa(high): b Now the rules she is explaining is as follows Not allowed: b c# d# Allowed: ni(a#'s lower scale) c# d# f f# Key combination: f# c# Aaroh(ascend) rule : skip f# from set Avaroh(descend) rule: No note skipped. For those who not confused until here, More geeky stuff 'komal swar' are half tone down, 'tivra swar' are half tone up . Chalan is rule about staying longer with a note(swar) or notes , depends on the raag.
At last.. you actually got up to raag. This is pure music. I am very proud that i have some knowledge and is a student of indian classical music. #indianclassicalmusic #puremusic
For music nerds : Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni is Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Yaman ( at least just the notes withou the rules) is exactly equivalent Lydian mode. basically, a maj scale with an augmented 4th Bhoop would be equivalent to Maj pentatonic scale
Thank you . I am a South African Indian. I play western and Indian music , keyboard and other Indian instruments. I have watched all of Anuja's presentations. She is amazing. Thank you for introducing her in your channel. 👍🙏
@@HofTheStagechalan is the way a raag moves. It's what defines it and only it. Raag is a living entity with its own attributes. Like recognizing a person by hearing only her footfall.
Trust me if you hv heard this thing for the first time and if you think you have followed it, you are quite wrong. Its quite complex than the lady explained. She is just an amazing teacher. Kudos to you to learn and explore this..
I learned indian classical a little when I was a kid, then stopped going to classes.At that time it seemed boring, but now I think that if the teacher is good then it is not boring.. 🙂 i should have continued 🙂
Timestamp 12:00 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni are names for notes. So Pa-Re is just a note combination. What she is saying is that going up, this Raag often follows a combination of Ni-Re, and coming down, it follows Pa-Re often. These common combinations and recurrences in renditions give Raag its identity and distinctiveness. Raag is like a walled garden. The walls set the rules, the renditions decorate it with flowers. Each garden is supposed to have an overarching emotion. One raag may celebrate good weather, while another celebrates melancholy. Notes and patterns that invoke those emotions are predefined. She says we don't break the rules: Imagine experiencing a very strong emotion. We do get out of that mood some time. But it takes some significant happening to move our mood. The creative amongst us do break the rules, they even transition and transition back amongst raags. However pairing and flowing through different gardens, taking your audience on that journey, needs significant skill and experience. Its a beautiful world when you learn about it 🙂
Oh India...everything about u is beautiful 😍..your culture..ur tradition...ur people...different languages..different food..different religions..and of course the music...and yet..u all live in harmony..love you India 🇮🇳
Watched tons of such videos where you and other vocal coaches are reacting to all kinda videos but this is the Maoist meaningful one for me in your context and because you behaved like a KG or Kindergarten student even though you are well versed with music makes it even more special. This is the best original reaction that I have ever seen on You tube. I dunno why but I felt like that. So congrats to you and her too. Cheers mate✌️
In Indian music the notation used is Sa Ri Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni... Similar to Do Ri Me Fa So... Only difference is that the tonic Sa is not fixed . A singer can set the tonic to where ever he/she wants before starting the song. So someone might set Sa to C and then you simply get the C Major Scale. .. And the varient of each note referred in the video is basically semitones Sharp and Flat.
I’m discovering Indian traditional music and I think I finally got why it feels so strange to western ears and minds ; I am also a scientist and very interested in the theory of classification, and it relates to that in a way = Here we separate things There they try to achieve unity FIRST OFF For example, we are used to see the figures 1,2,3 etc as separate numbers. But when I was at school my mind was blown to learn that there is litterally an infinite number of numbers between 1 and 2, given that you can add an infinite number of figures after the « , » : 1,2 ; 1,3 ; 1,35.... That is exactly what happens when you « slide » between two « notes ». Notes are fixed points easily distinguished from each other by our ears. Flats and sharps are a little more difficult, and yes, more separation exists but hard for us to set apart. So in a way, with so much slides, they are linking the sounds as if it’s ONE continuous sound where you cannot really tell when it begins and when it ends, it feels like real magic. We touch infinity. THEN, She spoke about connecting other notes, saying hi and come back, putting the note in context in a sense. It’s like making sure that the note is integrated into its environment, with its friends, family, its own context ; Here I feel that every note is supposed to be « isolated », sharply distinguished from the others with certainty. So it’s flat. And the usual way we have to make them sound « good » is the basic vibrato some people really overuse. I feel like Indian music is more mature and wise... Sorry about the whimsical rant, not easy to express those theoric notions when English is not your first language xD (Ps : oh and it relates to classification cause our western way of separating things in a binary way comes mainly from Ancient Greece and we take it for granted but others ways, less... isolating and linear exist in other cultures, that’s just that our colonist civilization kind of wiped a lot of them, and still tries to...)
People should learn this by watching you, Everybody keeps on learning from everyone throughout his life, if he has the desire to learn. it is never too late to learn.
Raag is a combination of sharp and flat notes. The combination generates how the raag feels. "Yaman" is the combination cdefgabc with f sharp. Last point about kan swar (corner notes) where glissandoes makes the feeling that much more intense Chalan "Gait" is the note order and speed, makes the raag distinct. Kan swars are not pronounced, they are sounds that are hit.
Probably another interesting bit: A lot of raags are supposed to be sung at specific time of the day or even in specific seasons of the year. For such raags, it really hits you when you listen to them at the prescribed time.
I am also a student of classical music and seeing you, I am getting more motivation in my mind that I should learn even better and teach my taught things outside i.e. in your country as well.❤
What she's talking about at 11:43 is called raag pehchaan, where 'pehchaan' means identity. "Ni Re Ga Ma Pa", and "Pa Re" are two patterns, and together they are unique to this raag. This means that no other raag will have exactly these two patterns. Some raags can have the "Ni Re Ga Ma Pa" pattern, some can can have "Pa Re" pattern, some can have both + other patterns, but no other raag will have exactly these two patterns. I used to know this stuff more than a decade ago, now I've forgotten :(
I saw a man Falling in Love lol Lets shout him out at anuja's channel be a Wingman guys :D Jokes apart I love how can a true Artiste understand art no matter how different and unique it is!! Cheers
@@connorstewart4833It was only my reaction to the vedeo.Their reactions, particularly relating to Indian music,Indian singers are good .I happen to watch all the 'stupid reactions' and not for learning the real Indian music. Don't read too much into it.
@@pranavsubramanian3242 Well, I don't know music, I just mentioned the note conversion map I would say. Having said that, what you are saying is about scale I guess, and often a person chooses the scale as per his or her comfort, so same notes and same Rag can be sung in different scales, at least as far as I know, but I can be wrong, given my zero training in music.
Nahi ....sa is not fixed to c or any specific note. It is relatively if the tanpura drone (tonic )is c then c will be sa ,for bansuri mostly e is sa ,for sitar c sharp or d , For sarod g /a . Sa can be any note ultimately . Bilkoul
I loved loved loved the way you tried it. And your expression shows how mesmerized you are. You reacted like a child when he learns something new and is happy about it.❤️🫶
In India learning and practicing raaga is very imp for every child so here almost 70% people know how to sing ragaa we usually practice it in harmonium classical music is feeling and emotion and always passed on to another generation ❤
I'm from India and I can proudly say that, Indian makes lots of great music's. When beauty meets the beauty, its speechless ! You should also review the National song of India, which is consider one of the best song in the world.
Okay the "flavour" or "colour" you're wondering about between the notes are actually ornamentations called "Alankaars". There are different types of ornamentations you can use to "decorate" your singing. Beginners usually sing it plain but they learn it later :)
I'm really in love with this lesson! Anjua Kamat explains everything in such a way that's easy to follow and understand. Her love for Indian classical music is intoxicating! Raags are essential part of Indian culture, and as a vocal coach, I always enjoy learning new things and expanding my horizons - it helps me gain new knowledge in music but even more importantly, grow as a person.
Sliding which you are talking about is a type of Gamakas. She did a video about that.
ruclips.net/video/viL-8iubNpE/видео.html you can listen to many songs of Raag Yaman in this video
This was about HINDUSTANI classic music which is north indian classical music also try to listen and react also to CARNATIC classical music which is south indian classical music. both are extraordinary cultures both are great. Try also reacting to Carnatic music
She is just great..She has many many videos on Indian Classical music..Hope watch and react to some more of her videos.
Please google "72 melakartha ragas" book in english and read it. You can download the pdf file.
I've never seen a reaction more engaged! A video is worth only to the extent it is capable of engaging the beholder.👌
Glad you enjoyed it so much, thanks! 😊
Interesting to see this ! It is actually quite hard to explain Indian Classical (North or South) to Westerners, since Western music is built on very different concepts than Indian classical (obviously). I have been studying Indian music since 1964 when I began taking a class with the famous artist Ustad Ali Akbar Khan in California at the American Society for Eastern Arts, and continued with him for 25 years. A long story ! I teach sitar, also learned some vocal, and continue to study. In my first month I spent a lot of time asking Khansahib "What is a raga ?" He: "A raga is "the melody that haunts you"
Me:"I don't understand !" ("A Hard Days Night" is a melody that haunts me, or "Esurientes Implevit Bonis" -- but they are not ragas !).
Khansahib: "Just practice."
Me: (silently"--but-but- I'm a COLLEGE student ! I'm SUPPOSED to understand things !! That's my JOB !! ")
Anyway, decades later --to sum things up as I would in a lecture-demo for a Western college class:
To put it somewhat crudely, a raga is kind of a cross between a melody and a road map of how you can move up and down in the scale. It can be performed in any key the performer prefers.
Each raga has a separate and distinct "heart" or theme (and sometimes more than one). Ragas have boundaries as well, and sometimes common territory, but after you sing the shared part you better make it clear by returning to the uniquely owned territory, which rag it is you are singing. If you don't, the learned people in the audience will get upset.
"Sargam" (which you sang) is exactly the same as solfege. (Sa is "do", etc.)
Indian classical music developed pitch, melodic systems, rhythmic systems and improvisation to a very high degree. Harmony-zippo. (You can't do EVERYTHING at the same time, after all !).
Western music uses harmony as a kind of meta-melody, which we enjoy a great deal. But it also approaches melody in a much more restricted way than Indian music. (There are many other systems of music as well, which I can't speak about). Indian music uses and enjoys much more common use of flatted seconds, sharped fourths and flatted sixths. In Western music you hear these more as leading tones in harmonic modulation. Traditional Western music regards a plain old flatted second, sharped fourth or flatted sixth as atonal or unpleasing.
In Indian music there is use of slides, or microtones, or meend. But a meend is really more akin to what in jazz is called a "blue note". In learning to do meend you need to listen very carefully to learn and hear precisely what microtones you should be imitating and which ones you should leave out, lest you sound like a train whistle. All microtones are NOT created equally.
Oh, and Anujaji is NOT singing nasally ! I made that mistake back in the 80's. The esteemed vocal teacher Pandit A.T. Kanan, who I had the great priviledge to learn from briefly for a few months, corrected me. It took about two weeks of daily class and riaz before I could stop singing nasally. He was a genius and his advanced students are some of India's best-known artists today. One needs to listen seriously and carefully to imprint the correct style in one's ear and mind. A music student cannot rush this step.
I should also mention that Indian classical rhythm is one of the great art forms of the world. Just one example: The tabla literature --eg, the compositions created by all the great tabla gurus and performers over the centuries --can only be compared to all piano literature, or all western vocal literature in it's range, imagination and stylistic variety. Top tabla players, as well as other drummers from both North and South, and many instrumentalists and dancers as well, can play in rhythm cycles of 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11,12, 13, 16 (of course) as well as 10 1/2, and other odd numbers.
Very well elucidated
This comment is a gem. Thank you!
Amazing. Thanks so much for sharing. This is gold ❤
Wow, to think what it must have been like to learn music from some of the biggest legends of Indian classical music, thanks for sharing this comment!
I have completed Indian classical music course... it's called "Bisaharad" or Bachelor of Music, the course was of 6 Years...I am still not perfect... every good Indian singers like Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam etc etc have dedicated most of there life learning Indian classical music... that's how they became so perfect
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You should do nipun
No one can become perfect bro, Indian classical has a much larger ocean
The hazarika surname reminds me one of the greatest.
@@sangramsinghrajvi Bhupen Hazarika?
A vocal coach learning from another vocal coach...YAAY!😆💚❤
There's always something to learn 😉
She is not a vocal coach
@@utkarshvishwakarma3590 Teacher is fine then? Because she is teaching through these videos...
@@utkarshvishwakarma3590 ... anyone who knows something you don't and teaches you is a coach for you.
@@user-gd7nk4re6u Bro, I didn't mean that. Vocal coaches are more of voice trainer while she is teaching how to sing.
Some western equivalents of the terms used by Anuja..
Audav=pentatonic
Shadav=hexatonic
Sampoorn=heptatonic
Raag Yaman(minus the rules)=Lydian mode
Chalan=no equivalent, but it literally translates to how the melodic scale moves (chal = to go/move in Hindi and Sanskrit)
There are no quarter notes in Indian raags, Indian music uses the same 12 notes as the western chromatic scale, the technique she uses is called meend(think Kanswar the notes that Anuja says hi to), meaning she slides into a note from another, difficult to replicate with a piano, but you can with a stringed instrument like a guitar. Think bending the string to slide upwards by a step.
Indians, feel free to correct the conceptual equivalents..
@@sohamojha this is what I've found in Google.
The basic mode of reference is that which is equivalent to the Western Ionian mode or major scale (called Bilaval thaat in Hindustani music, Dheerashankarabharanam in Carnatic). All relationships between pitches follow from this. In any seven-tone mode (starting with S), R, G, D, and N can be natural (shuddha, lit. 'pure') or flat (komal, 'soft') but never sharp, and the M can be natural or sharp (teevra) but never flat, making twelve notes as in the Western chromatic scale. If a swara is not natural (shuddha), a line below a letter indicates that it is flat (komal) and an acute accent above indicates that it is sharp (teevra, 'intense'). Sa and Pa are immovable (once Sa is selected), forming a just perfect fifth.
And I've learnt Carnatic classical. What is said here is consistent with what I've learnt.
Kan and meend are two different things. Kan is when you start a swar from another with a very quick slide. Meend is slower
Actually Indian Music has 22Shrutis.. 12notes are the Pure and Sharp notes, there are some Middle notes as well.. you can search for the 22shruti Harmonium.. you will get to know more about the Shrutis
@@subhrajyotibanerjee1052 I need to read up..
@@subhrajyotibanerjee1052 are you talking about komaal re,ga,dha,ne teevra ma 🤔🤔
Sir trying to sing the Raag is pure Gold!💚❤
Gold as in funny 😀
@@HofTheStage gold as in beautiful or adorable👍
@H
This amazing to watch, I have met Anuja Kamat at a Tedx Event, she is amazing and talented artist . it got me interested in indian classical music when I was watching few of her videos on YT.
Dear H, actually for answering to you thought on, pa-re relationship...In fact the sad story about Indian Classical singing is that Indian themselves don't really use the classical ancient term of their own musical treatise with their own connotations, but rather use a mix of english technical terms like Notes, Scales, Modes, that do not relate to their music neither to our - which most of the time they do not know - this result in many misunderstanding and we miss the most interesting points...
What a Râga is, cannot be defined by words, and this concept is expressivly conceived for this purpose of not being explainable...Calan (chalan) is good entry point to understand the major difference between scale oriented musicology and Râga oriented musicology.
Calan is not a simple set of melody...it's actually a way to define the shape of the râga itsef (svarupa). Inside the calan itself, the notions of aroha - avaroha is imbeded in the set of phrases that the musician/singer will "develop" to "speak" the râga, for "shaping" the raga in real time. The calan contain informations about the relations that each Svara (which are not notes, it's a different concept even if as westerner we would say it's notes) have with others in the râga, they can be linked with a meend (like PA-RE), or just Kan (like Ga befor RE). In the calan (in Dhrupad) the relation of timing is also made clear.
So there is actually layers and layers of informations not just 2 or 3...that's why we speak about knowing a Râga as a personality or entity. All these layers of information unfold only with practice and dedication, it's not really about "set of rules"...hope it helps a bit to understand that this is really interesting to dive into this beautifull musical culture.
I am stunned...a foreigner knows better than us. You are awsome sir.
Waoo... you're great sir
That's clear explanation.
Sir, spread your knowledge. Thank You. 🙏
@@MalayKumar98 that's how copy paste works my guy. No hate tho , just a joke
You are not allowed to break rules because it changes the mood, it changes the emotions the raag wants to invoke. These raags have evolved over thousands of years and many great singers, musicians have developed new raags.
The fluid feelings which you are referring to is called 'Gamakas'! She has uploaded one video on Gamaka too if already not watched!
I haven't, I'll check it out ;)
Here's a video explaining "Gamakas": ruclips.net/video/AIPraIlSmIk/видео.html
Omg, yes, the western musical understanding of what is kan-swar is, is spot on! That's exactly what it is: touching other notes, but with the pronunciation of the previous notes (and obviously the available notes depend on the specific raag). I was so happy when you had that little eureka moment, ahaha, loved the video!
u talking about when he was saying about sargam, and playing piano ?
Way of living ❤️ without even realising u hv just said the most beautiful thing brother. Yes, Hinduism is a way of living 🙏🏻
Bro I'm seriously telling you once you learn indian classical you can sing nearly all types of songs (even western). There are some videos of indian singers singing western songs if you can check them out
If you have some good links, paste them here, I would love to check it out!
@@HofTheStage ruclips.net/video/xSQ6Sri4nmQ/видео.html ...part 2 of indian singers singing English songs and ruclips.net/video/gTlETY9NGQw/видео.html ..this is part 1 part 2 is little more interesting
ruclips.net/video/AIPraIlSmIk/видео.html this is the link for gamakas the way we We move between the notes it's like kan swars but there are some types
That is a bit of an overstatement. I did not enjoy Lata Mangeshkar singing an American song. Each style has its own character and not everyone can adapt.
@@HofTheStage @10:42 Why are you afraid in trying. You are doing great. You are a trained artist, it won't take much time for you to learn this. Besides, I myself is a singer and I can assure you that Hindustani Classical Music helps you immensely. It makes everyone self sufficient and you won't need any kind of auto-tune to hit crazy notes. Again "YOU ARE DOING MARVELLOUSLY, JUST BE CONFIDENT".....
Indian music is like an ocean, the more you go deep the more you will be surprised 💐👍🙏
I love your passion and enthusiasm for music...there in no end to learning !! 👍🏼🙂
Exactly! And that's the beauty of it!
True
Anuja is a brilliant instructor and you are a perfect student.The dedication you show to this session is amazing.Wish you and Anuja healthy and peaceful life
Keep watching her, she has being improving her ways of teaching and presenting and teaching these concepts.
Foreigners appreciate our music and culture so much... Today's generation should really value this and make a name for themselves here and globally... I hope our educational institutions introduce fine arts which can help in total development...
Thoroughly enjoyed the video mate. Being Indian I never bothered to learn but this video made me so. Appreciate your efforts. Good day.
Thanks Abhi, I wanna learn a bit more about it so I can appriciate what I listen even more! Have a nice day!
Indians value Indian thing if it is appreciated or approved by foreigner
That's why we were enslaved last 8-9 centuries
@@mayurgudi381 why hate bro? Just relax and enjoy life. Stay positive.
At 14:42 “ Chalan” means literally “ walking “ she saying that although nodes are same but while “walking” through Raag duration of that particular node to sing is different in different Raag.. some raag you need to sing same node longer and in some you sing shorter..
You are good.. appreciated man..👍
Chalan is tradition
Chalan is more like 'gait' or the rhythm of your walk. Like identifying a faraway known person just by the way they move.
Out of the 4 most holiest books in Hinduism which are also the oldest written books in the world.
1 is completely dedicated to song. It's called 'Sama Veda'
Audav = penta, Shadav = hexa, Sampoorn means complete. There are 7 natural notes, so sampoorn means 7 notes. In the ascending and descending if 7 notes are used then its Sampoorn Jati or Heptatonic scale. If the same goes for 5 notes then its Pentatonic scale or audav jati. Thus, 6 notes in ascend and descend then its Hexatonic scale or Shaadav Jati. If you want to know more then I can explain further.
" Sampurna" goes beyond "complete" . It has connotations of " whole" as well. Whole and complete!
7 notes in Indian classical music r notes to eternity.
First note Sa activates Muladhar. Each note represent chakra.
Muladhar to Sahstrar.
It's beauty of ICM (Indian classical music) ❤️
At 9:30 when you start playing along with her, there is an extremely slight variation at each note. That is the difference between the equitempered scaled the the harmonic scale. (She is pitch perfect)
Well,i simply adored this reaction and LESSON about this richness that is raag music.Iwill keep it and share into my blog.
she has been missing for a long time. Can you manage a meeting/collaboration with her? We really miss her!
She didnt explain what are the indians notes ( sa re ma pa...), thats why you struggle to understand half of what she was speaking... Indian notes for western musicians are not the stable notes, but they the intervals. First note "sa" is chosen by vocalist according to his vocal range , for example it can be western D key. Next note Re is higher on one tone , (or semitone if its Re-komal), Ga - one tone more from Re and so on. Intervals basically are similar to western CDEFGAB and 12 semitones in octave system (but not all the time , just not to make comment too big explaining quarter-tone and other things).
Yessss! I was scrolling to see if someone had already explained this to save myself the effort of doing so 😁.
I think our friend here has not realized that Sa, re, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni, sa are the notes of a "Floating Scale", much like the Western Do, re, me, fa, so, la, te, do.
Edit: My bad. Near the end of the video, he shows that he knows they are a floating scale. Sorry!
This was a great video!
Same as do re mi.
Yes, your comment should go to top
20:53
she has a complete course on learning classical music, I believe she explains the notes in one of her first videos
Loved this..❤️
we're so happy that you reacted to our musical culture.. Anuja's was the most elaborated lesson on Raag that you cud find 😊
THIS TOTALLY MADE MY DAY!!
I really hate to say it, but we Indians DONT value what we have.
Its a shame that we arnt taught about music at our school, we are only taught about stupid history which wont even matter!
If a foreign guy loves dis so much, it means something.
it doesnt mean anything, he's a professional, he recognizes the beauty in the art of indian classical music. Pros in indian classical music will also have a lot of positive things to say about western classical opera or chinese, japanese classical music. indian classical music is an inseparable part of our culture and history, it evolved through ages to get to this form. nothing is useless. what she's teaching is taught in medium levels in classical music schools in india.
Yes, we neither owned and worked to spread yoga, neither did we do that for classical music - which is by far the most effective method of vocal training and musical thinking.
Right.
No subject is useless.
Blame the east india company's hold on india to destroy our culture and we are fools to accept it and admire western Abrahamic mixed dirty songs in our entertainment
Do you let your children learn Indian classical songs or instrument or the western instruments? ???
Older gen forced children to learn classical music or instruments
But now everyone wants to become westernised why ???
But brain washing in convents to slowly convert to country into an Abrahamic culture starts with arts and entertainment
So ensure you your children learn Indian music instruments etc
This is absolutely lovely! When he tried the do re mi in indian style, it was so cute. I would love to hear more do re mi in different raag.
RAAG is a very deep concept, rooted in our Indian culture. Nice video man! Loved how you try to uplift the musical spirit among us.
People in country where forgetting about Raga you are doing fabulous job by promoting at your channel....
I usually do not comment on videos, but I throughly enjoyed watching 2 music experts appreciate music. Even though you were watching her video it seemed like you both were having a beauty conversation about the feeling of music. Thank you for this beautiful video!
I love your curiosity and how the channel is moving in a direction, unexplored.
Thanks man :) I'm doing my best to keep it entertaining and educational, for both the viewer and myself
Very few know the names of the svar
Sa-shadaj
Re-rishabh
Ga-gandhar
Ma- madhyam
Pa-pancham
Dha- dhaivat
Ni-nishad.....
I learnt in my first year(praveshika)
Indian music and singing has a lot of depth...
I have learned singing for like 6 years, I don't sing much now but when I do my friends get surprised being completely unknown of the fact that I can sing. The way he just played it at 9:44 is amazing! It took me whole 3 years of practice to master that on a Harmonium or u might know it as Reed Organ! This guy really knows what he is doing and he is amazing! I subscribed just now!
A raag is not just a set of musical rules. Those just form the guidelines. A raag is a highly abstract concept, REPRESENTING a mood/emotion some times, which is attempted to be "realized" by an artist as per their capacity. So what an artist really sings/plays is just one example in which a raag can be "realized". Every artist "sees" the raag in a slightly different way and interpretes it in their own way. That becomes that artist's thought about that raag. Further, a single artist's vision of a raag can evolve with their musical journey. So the raag realization changes every time the same artist performs.
A nearly perfect analogy to all this that can make everything simple is in languages. Indian classical music is a "language" on its own. The notes are like letters. Phrases of notes are like words, and sentences. In this analogy, a raag will be like a specific point/thought/emotion to be argued or put forward or expressed. There are rules of grammar that make good/bad sentence construction. But when you speak few sentences or a paragraph, you don't use the same words every time . Every time you want to make a specific point, even the same point, you will use different set of unique word combinations. And to make the same point, different people will use completely different words/sentences. But there are still patterns. Like if one wishes to express politeness thru words, NO one will use the words "go to hell" in that paragraph. Similar structural rules aka "grammar" exists for every raag. But that doesn't limit any possibility of diverse ways of expressing the same thought/emotion.
This analogy with linguistic grammar rules is even TECHNICALLY the perfect fitting one. In this analogy, a raag is simply a "thought" to be expressed via combinations of musical words/letters (phrases, notes). And just like spoken language, it's not just about WHAT words are spoken to make a point, but HOW they are spoken is also important. The cadence/diction, in this analogy is what is called Chalan. The tempo of speech is Lay in Indian music. There's no better analogy imho. Indian music is STRUCTURALLY simply a "language built out of notes to express musical thoughts aka mood/emotion". Hence it naturally allows for infinte creativity, just like poetry in language. in this analogy, what's a poem in words, is a bandish in music.
THIS WAS ONE YOUR BEST REACTION VIDEO..
Thx, I'll do more like these soon ;)
I love how actively engaged you are in learning about our music!
Indeed Indian language and music is hard to decode for foreigners 😂. No wonder why beetles fell in love with Indian music ❤️
You found Anuja! Anuja saved my butt for many an exam!!! And you are right, Indian music IS a philosophy, it is very complex
Impressed by the singers understanding and your interpretation of the same. You both are genuine in your own space. I always wanted to see an opposite video where some western styles, notation are explained by how it's been taught in classical Indian. Tough to grapple western notes if you already know classical Indian. just my experience.
Brother appreciate your interest and efforts to learn raags. Like the way you observe things in the tutorial. It completely shows that you truly want to understand this and not just want a video to increase viewership...
Love n respect bro....
Man this is whole new level. It takes my soul out of my body
10:10 , 11:05 the transitioning sounds are called Shruti: The transitioning sound to connect two notes. He mentions again at 12:14.
Also to better understand Indian Music , map the notes to your system. Translate the rules to your notations. eg. He collected notation for raag Yaman. now he needs to note down the rules about which specific combination of notes are allowed and which are unacceptable as per the rules. Note: this is to be done only to analyze it, Avoid translations to learn it!
Mind you that this is for her scale only. This notes are note absolute. Everyone has their own scale and the notes scale down or up in the same order.
Raag Yaman notes as he quoted-->
sa: b
re: c#
ga: d#
ma(tivra): f
pa: f#
dha: g#
ni: a#
sa(high): b
Now the rules she is explaining is as follows
Not allowed: b c# d#
Allowed: ni(a#'s lower scale) c# d# f f#
Key combination: f# c#
Aaroh(ascend) rule : skip f# from set
Avaroh(descend) rule: No note skipped.
For those who not confused until here, More geeky stuff
'komal swar' are half tone down, 'tivra swar' are half tone up .
Chalan is rule about staying longer with a note(swar) or notes , depends on the raag.
At last.. you actually got up to raag. This is pure music. I am very proud that i have some knowledge and is a student of indian classical music.
#indianclassicalmusic #puremusic
For music nerds :
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni is
Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti
Yaman ( at least just the notes withou the rules) is exactly equivalent Lydian mode. basically, a maj scale with an augmented 4th
Bhoop would be equivalent to Maj pentatonic scale
Mast explain Kiya bhai 😊
Ha ji,many parallels, also hicham /hijaz scale close to bhairav
Man I don't know why , but it brought tears to my eyes.
Thank you . I am a South African Indian. I play western and Indian music , keyboard and other Indian instruments. I have watched all of Anuja's presentations. She is amazing. Thank you for introducing her in your channel. 👍🙏
You should totally do a Collab with her...she is awesome 😋
She is, and that would be awesome :)
@@HofTheStagechalan is the way a raag moves. It's what defines it and only it. Raag is a living entity with its own attributes. Like recognizing a person by hearing only her footfall.
Trust me if you hv heard this thing for the first time and if you think you have followed it, you are quite wrong. Its quite complex than the lady explained. She is just an amazing teacher. Kudos to you to learn and explore this..
It's not the first time I've heard it and of course I don't understand it fully, but I like listening to new things and trying to understand it better
This video is for a beginner so of course it shouldn't be complex
Raags are just like scales. As you know, scales have 7 notes. "Sampoorna" means "complete". So, a 7 notes raags are sampoorna.
I learned indian classical a little when I was a kid, then stopped going to classes.At that time it seemed boring, but now I think that if the teacher is good then it is not boring.. 🙂 i should have continued 🙂
Love from India ❤
Omg. This is the first time I am listening about raag. And this is a whole phylosphy. Amazing ❤❤
Timestamp 12:00
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni are names for notes. So Pa-Re is just a note combination. What she is saying is that going up, this Raag often follows a combination of Ni-Re, and coming down, it follows Pa-Re often. These common combinations and recurrences in renditions give Raag its identity and distinctiveness.
Raag is like a walled garden. The walls set the rules, the renditions decorate it with flowers. Each garden is supposed to have an overarching emotion. One raag may celebrate good weather, while another celebrates melancholy. Notes and patterns that invoke those emotions are predefined.
She says we don't break the rules: Imagine experiencing a very strong emotion. We do get out of that mood some time. But it takes some significant happening to move our mood. The creative amongst us do break the rules, they even transition and transition back amongst raags. However pairing and flowing through different gardens, taking your audience on that journey, needs significant skill and experience.
Its a beautiful world when you learn about it 🙂
Oh India...everything about u is beautiful 😍..your culture..ur tradition...ur people...different languages..different food..different religions..and of course the music...and yet..u all live in harmony..love you India 🇮🇳
Statement valid when India explored via direct experience not via controlled media..
She is most beautifully smiling girl on Earth as of now.
Appreciated ❤️ love it brothr
We want more reactions on indian music
There will be, I promise :)
+1
Each Raag has two important notes called Vadi and Samvadi. These are the two most important notes, in that order, that define the mood of the raag.
Watched tons of such videos where you and other vocal coaches are reacting to all kinda videos but this is the Maoist meaningful one for me in your context and because you behaved like a KG or Kindergarten student even though you are well versed with music makes it even more special.
This is the best original reaction that I have ever seen on You tube. I dunno why but I felt like that. So congrats to you and her too. Cheers mate✌️
Brett: "Interesting".. Let me check out her video where she relates the raag to blues and how classical music is connected to pop music.
*I would love if you both really sit in front of each other and talk about Music in your Language of Music*
!!!
In Indian music the notation used is Sa Ri Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni... Similar to Do Ri Me Fa So...
Only difference is that the tonic Sa is not fixed . A singer can set the tonic to where ever he/she wants before starting the song. So someone might set Sa to C and then you simply get the C Major Scale. ..
And the varient of each note referred in the video is basically semitones Sharp and Flat.
There is another video of hers where she explains those micro slides/crescent between notes that you were curious about...
I’m discovering Indian traditional music and I think I finally got why it feels so strange to western ears and minds ; I am also a scientist and very interested in the theory of classification, and it relates to that in a way =
Here we separate things
There they try to achieve unity
FIRST OFF
For example, we are used to see the figures 1,2,3 etc as separate numbers.
But when I was at school my mind was blown to learn that there is litterally an infinite number of numbers between 1 and 2, given that you can add an infinite number of figures after the « , » : 1,2 ; 1,3 ; 1,35....
That is exactly what happens when you « slide » between two « notes ».
Notes are fixed points easily distinguished from each other by our ears.
Flats and sharps are a little more difficult, and yes, more separation exists but hard for us to set apart.
So in a way, with so much slides, they are linking the sounds as if it’s ONE continuous sound where you cannot really tell when it begins and when it ends, it feels like real magic. We touch infinity.
THEN,
She spoke about connecting other notes, saying hi and come back, putting the note in context in a sense. It’s like making sure that the note is integrated into its environment, with its friends, family, its own context ;
Here I feel that every note is supposed to be « isolated », sharply distinguished from the others with certainty. So it’s flat. And the usual way we have to make them sound « good » is the basic vibrato some people really overuse.
I feel like Indian music is more mature and wise...
Sorry about the whimsical rant, not easy to express those theoric notions when English is not your first language xD
(Ps : oh and it relates to classification cause our western way of separating things in a binary way comes mainly from Ancient Greece and we take it for granted but others ways, less... isolating and linear exist in other cultures, that’s just that our colonist civilization kind of wiped a lot of them, and still tries to...)
Makes a lot of sense
👍🏽
Hats off to you on your understanding and correlation with math and science.
@@eminemnemiem math and science always have a relation. I think what you meant is math and music, I hope you know what I mean
Bro that's a good observation...but this is not QUORA...
Chaining of notes is like cursive writing when compared to typing. It's gels beautifully.
" I love her accent "
Great! I am sure she will love your accent too!
I must compliment you on how quickly you caught on to the concept of a raag.
People should learn this by watching you,
Everybody keeps on learning from everyone throughout his life, if he has the desire to learn. it is never too late to learn.
Now this is the best reaction video. Even though i don't have any knowledge of music, but the way you both explain, i love it
12:40 minutes that slide is meend.. please watch Anuja Kamat's Video about Ornamentation in Indian Classical music for that query❤️❤️
Very very lovely n brilliant narration by both.. really going to the depth.
Thanks :) share it around and subscribe, there will be more
Hahaha it was so cute when he was playing along with her singing XD
This really helps a basic understanding on your music and our music. Thanks!
Raag is a combination of sharp and flat notes. The combination generates how the raag feels. "Yaman" is the combination cdefgabc with f sharp.
Last point about kan swar (corner notes) where glissandoes makes the feeling that much more intense
Chalan "Gait" is the note order and speed, makes the raag distinct. Kan swars are not pronounced, they are sounds that are hit.
Thank you for finally reacting to this video. .
I've been requesting this for a long time 😊😊
Indian classical music is way more complicated than just singing , you actually have to feel some emotions to convey them through raags ☺️.
Loved the way you enjoyed Anuja's lesson. It's Chalan...or the Walk of the raag.
Anuja is just Amazing.
Probably another interesting bit:
A lot of raags are supposed to be sung at specific time of the day or even in specific seasons of the year. For such raags, it really hits you when you listen to them at the prescribed time.
I just want to say while explaining rag she used teevra 'ma' which is not original form of 'ma' thats why its scale wasnt sharp
I am also a student of classical music and seeing you, I am getting more motivation in my mind that I should learn even better and teach my taught things outside i.e. in your country as well.❤
You need to watch a video that explains 'gamakas'. It contains the essence of Indian music that makes it Indian.
What she's talking about at 11:43 is called raag pehchaan, where 'pehchaan' means identity. "Ni Re Ga Ma Pa", and "Pa Re" are two patterns, and together they are unique to this raag. This means that no other raag will have exactly these two patterns. Some raags can have the "Ni Re Ga Ma Pa" pattern, some can can have "Pa Re" pattern, some can have both + other patterns, but no other raag will have exactly these two patterns. I used to know this stuff more than a decade ago, now I've forgotten :(
I saw a man Falling in Love lol
Lets shout him out at anuja's channel be a Wingman guys :D
Jokes apart I love how can a true Artiste understand art no matter how different and unique it is!!
Cheers
It takes years of practice. Kids learn at early age. Enjoyed watching.
I am an Indian, but I learned more about the music from his reactions.
Arre beta.
learn from more worthy sources.
What are you thnking saying such pagal thing.
@@connorstewart4833 I was listening, but he was analysing .
@@kotamrajuprasad2742 how is this?
@@connorstewart4833It was only my reaction to the vedeo.Their reactions, particularly relating to Indian music,Indian singers are good .I happen to watch all the 'stupid reactions' and not for learning the real Indian music. Don't read too much into it.
Thank you for letting me know that there is someone like Anuj kamat who sings and teaches so well!
You should check out "73 Ragas with Abby V | Vogue Parody" He quickly goes through 73 different raag originating in Indian classical music.
Since you vocal coach , you are explained by undrstanding easily though are foreigne. Really appreciable. Thanks
INDn notes: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa
West notes: C D E F G A B C#
She was singing: C D E F# G A B C# going forwards and backwards.
Except everything in the Key of B in this case.
So, all notes 1/2 step down.
@@pranavsubramanian3242 Well, I don't know music, I just mentioned the note conversion map I would say.
Having said that, what you are saying is about scale I guess, and often a person chooses the scale as per his or her comfort, so same notes and same Rag can be sung in different scales, at least as far as I know, but I can be wrong, given my zero training in music.
The final Sa is a C too, just in a higher octave. Not C#
Nahi ....sa is not fixed to c or any specific note.
It is relatively if the tanpura drone (tonic )is c then c will be sa ,for bansuri mostly e is sa ,for sitar c sharp or d ,
For sarod g /a .
Sa can be any note ultimately .
Bilkoul
This is C scale
Shudh Sa start from C#
I loved loved loved the way you tried it. And your expression shows how mesmerized you are. You reacted like a child when he learns something new and is happy about it.❤️🫶
In India learning and practicing raaga is very imp for every child so here almost 70% people know how to sing ragaa we usually practice it in harmonium classical music is feeling and emotion and always passed on to another generation ❤
More like 3%. No idea which India you're talking about.
I'm from India and I can proudly say that, Indian makes lots of great music's. When beauty meets the beauty, its speechless ! You should also review the National song of India, which is consider one of the best song in the world.
Okay the "flavour" or "colour" you're wondering about between the notes are actually ornamentations called "Alankaars". There are different types of ornamentations you can use to "decorate" your singing. Beginners usually sing it plain but they learn it later :)
I am glad to inform you that western keyboard synthesiser is orignally make from harmonium instrument of indian classical
If u want to know more about those "slides" Watch "how to sing gamakas"
Yaman, Marwa and Sohini are all evening raag. Any of these can melt your heart.
Agree 👍🏻👍🏻