Raga and indian music theory

[catmandu2]

Yes, I'm sure it's long OOP. Quite excellent though - an aural source of tuition.

Ya I'm guitarist too - trained under Fava in the Detroit area as a young teen. Saw shakti when i was 17 and it blew my mind (mclaughlin is one of my heroes too - especially as he introduced me to paco DL who inspired my imagination for the subsequent 20 years - and zakir). Went absolutely all in w/ flamenco, with Bach on the side - never imagined I would find the need to be involved with anything else. But sounds in my head persisted - I saw Shivkumar as a teen also, and that blew my mind; and fueled with the medieval sound of wire harp which I couldn't shake, I obtained hammered dulcimers and set about learning harp repertoire on this, until I could finally obtain a clarsach proper. I came close to buying a good sarangi once, but finally told myself, enough! (I'm holding out for a hardingfele ).

All of this and much more distracted me from adequate dedicated study, so I finally gave up guitar (!). The mandolin, fiddle and banjo got me into lots of folk music and lots of fun jamming, but I guess I'm more compelled by the "high-art" forms one deploys with these ancient instruments: clarsach, oud, zheng.. *Yep, most of my playing is for myself these days

[DavidKOS]

I have this resource:

Https://www.google.com/search?q=lear...HRTRgQbMxOtOM:

...six cassettes of aural instruction by Ravi.

W.

I had and used that tape series in the early 1980's, it taught me a lot about North Indian music.

Thanks for reminding me.

[Werner Jaekel]

interesting

[catmandu2]

Still awaiting werner!

Hey david, and CW and all guitar aficionados - one thing I love, as I'm sure you as well, is JM's fiercly rhythmic sensibility - playing with zakir, trilock, paco, et al. The complex tonality of sitars, sarod, vina, santoor...with the intense rhythmic beauty in this music. Love

Mandolin does indeed seem in a good setting in carnatic style - all these instruments resonate in me upon hearing one or the other..

[Jim Garber]

As usual, while searching on the 'Net for something else I found the Mandolin Sisters.

[CWRoyds]

Still awaiting werner!

Hey david, and CW and all guitar aficionados - one thing I love, as I'm sure you as well, is JM's fiercly rhythmic sensibility - playing with zakir, trilock, paco, et al. The complex tonality of sitars, sarod, vina, santoor...with the intense rhythmic beauty in this music. Love

Mandolin does indeed seem in a good setting in carnatic style - all these instruments resonate in me upon hearing one or the other..

Case in point...




And this one is just magical.
The vocalist is stunning, and the percussion dual is insane.
Zakir is a god.