Interested in Indian Classical music !

deepakakkil

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Hey everyone,
I am Deepak and I am from India. I have practised Indian classical music for over 5 years. Recently I moved to Finland to do my masters and have been very inspired by the finnish rock band THE RASMUS. They are having a concert in my city today!!!

I also do blog about entertainment (Music being part of it)
You can find the blog here
zero-boredom.blogspot.fi

Look forward to interesting conversations and meeting some like minded people in the forum.
Cheers
 
Krummhorn

Krummhorn

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wljmrbill

wljmrbill

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Welcome to the forums. I wish you best of luck with your Masters Degree. I am not that familiar with Indian Classical Music but have njoyed a few pieces from that culture. Take care.
 
John Watt

John Watt

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Wow! I'm glad this isn't Deepak Chopra, or I'd have to bow out of being a like-minded person.
I can only wish I had his inspirational talents.
However, I've been working on my electric guitar sitar and raga stylings since the sixties,
when I was getting into energetic rhythms and hearing lots of tabla on jazz recordings,
so I feel more than a simple kinship with Indian musicians.
If I was from India, I'd have a hard time getting into rock bands, considering the modern concert experience,
short but not sweet, and mostly without a lot of sweat.
Indian musicians can play all day, letting the music carry them away, where I like to be.

And I believe the words of the Bhagavad-Gita, describing jet and missile warfare over India,
over 4,500 years ago, checking out the bomb blast by seeing a modern "meteor map" of India, showing it.
Yeah! Put that in your gourd and beat on it.
 
teddy

teddy

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Hello and welcome to the forum. I will have a listen to your music when it is quieter here.

teddy
 
teddy

teddy

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Like a lot of people my age I became introduced to the sitar through The Beatles. Certainly a beautiful and haunting instrument.

teddy
 
John Watt

John Watt

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Seeing someone ask about quartertones,
it's interesting to me that the sitar has frets that are held on and can be moved.
The frets are also so high you can really push the strings down, getting more tones.
If I remember, the generic tuning has 16 notes per octave.

Seeing this thread, when I took out movies this weekend I got two produced in India.
I'll call them humanist, a new Hollywood term for a movie genre.
 
JHC

JHC

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John I must do a google search as I have not seen any Indian music it would be interesting to see their notation
 
John Watt

John Watt

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I'm pretty sure traditional Indian musicians serve an apprenticeship, or call it an oral tradition.
It would be difficult to perform all day and night, getting trancelike, if you had to read it all.
There is what looks like a toy piano with a kind of bellows, one person playing, the other bellowing,
and that might have written scores, or scored writings, so maybe you can score one for yourself.

The new member from India, the originator of this thread, is interested in trading sheet music by mail.
I recommend a fellow Magle member.
 
JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I understand that the frets on a Sitar are removable which enables them to play different modes have you any experience with this?
 
John Watt

John Watt

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I know I'm not the Indian ragamuffin, but in southern Ontario even I moved frets on a sitar and played with tablas.
My friend Chris Smith in Port Colborne bought the electric sitar from Electric Ladyland that Jimi Hendrix used,
but I can't even touch that.
The most expensive sitar I tried was a music store feature, $3,200, in the 70's Toronto, very decorative.

It's almost Halloween. You might argue about which gourd makes the best tones, but try a pumpkin.
 
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