Out of ten thaat about 80 ragas are developed and performed these days. But for a beginner 30 ragas are sufficient to bring perfection in learning. The set of seven notes or scale that can produce a raga is called a thaat. The system of classification for the ragas in different groups is called a thaat. There are again several systems of classification of the raga.
Presently in Indian classical music the thaat classifications of ragas is commonly known. For example bhairavi is a popular raga and the thaat of the raga bhairavi is named after the raga. But for beginner 30 popular ragas or less are sufficient to bring perfection in learning. These thaats are sampooran i. A thaat is only a group of abstract tonal forms, but a raga is a combination of notes having the power of generating and creating emotional values.
Ragas are the melodic modes used in Indian classical music. A raga describes a generalized form of melodic practice; it prescribes a set of rules for how to build a melody. It specifies rules for movements up arohi and down amrohi the scale, which notes should figure more and which notes should be used more carefully, and so on. The result is a structure that can be used to compose or improvise melodies, allowing for everlasting variation within the set of notes.
All the Ragas have a name and a character, which can be devotional, bold and gallant, or tragic. Raga usually comes with a time of the day when it is best performed. Some ragas are related to seasons, for example the raga malhar is usually performed mainly in the monsoon season, or it can be sung at any time.
Practice of sargam is very important for a harmonium or keyboard singer. In raga Kalyan Madhyam is Tiver and all other notes are Shuddh full. Raga Yaman Kalyan is an evening raga. It is also denominated variously by Yaman, Iman, Eman and Aiman. Although the Raga is as old as the hills, its historical antecedents are not easy to pin down. Traditionally rendered in the first quarter of night, Kalyan achieves its potent effect with tiver madhyam and shuddh nikhad forming a graceful symmetry amidst the other five-shuddh swar of the saptak, and shuddh gandhar serving as the vaadi and nikhad as samvaadi.
The derivative ragas out of this structure are grouped under the broad head of Kalyan Thaat. Here its jaati is kept sapooran-sampooran for sargam practice only. In our notation system tiver notes are shown in capital letters and with red dot.
Achal fixed notes are also shown with capital letters but with blue dot. The arohi of sargam will be taught in ten stages. You have to spend five to ten minutes on each stage for practice. Our practice of arohi and amrohi will be in madh or middle saptak.
Below given diagram is showing Raga Kalyan notes in all three saptak. Raga Kalyan is the best thaat to start with. Raga Kalyan notes are shown in all three saptak with finger numbers. Raga Kalyan Arohi First Stage — Sa index finger 2 We will begin our practice in middle saptak that is best for beginners.
Keep pressure on the note while pressing bellow of harmonium with your left hand. You have to practice at least minutes on this first note of Sargam. In the beginning you may feel difficulty in synchronizing your voice with harmonium but gradually you will overcome this difficulty. All our basic lessons in Raga Kalyan will begin from middle or madh saptak. Your index finger and middle fingers must remain over the notes. In the picture below Rekhab note is mentioned with red circle.
You should keep in mind that all above stages are linked and only one note is added in each stage. Do not raise your second finger much higher over Rekhab note and only decrease its pressure while approaching Gandhar. Now again try to synchronize your voice with Gandhar note and repeat this practice again and again at least 10 minutes.
In the picture below Gandhar note is mentioned with red circle. This repeated exercise from Sa to Ma should not be less than ten minutes of duration. It should be remembered that we would stay on each note for about five seconds. Do not forget to stay for five seconds on each note in each exercise while synchronizing your voice with swars. Soon after that position place your index finger No. Duration of pressing each note in all above stages is not less five seconds. You should practice arohi of sargam until your fingers are not used to play notes without hesitation and confidence.
One should try to practice Arohi without time limitation until perfection arises. Proper synchronizing of voice with swar is very important. You also have to practice Amrohi in stages as you already did in Arohi of Sargam but now in descending order from Taar upper Saptak towards Madh middle Saptak. There is also no time limitation for Amrohi practice but it should be continued until you get acquainted with the voice of notes.
Fingering will be same as selected in Arohi practice but in reverse order. There must be a gap of one and half second between swars to breath.
You have to remain for five seconds on each note while saying relevant swars and by synchronizing your voice. The gap between each note must be one and half second in this initial stage.
Total time of practice must be between minutes. In the sixth stage there is no fixed time period for practice of swars. You may increase your time if you feel you are not perfect in fingering or vocal.
Sargam Exercise 3 — Kalyan Arohi Amrohi It is the time when we will practice complete sargam in ascending and descending order. This exercise is very important for harmonium students for basic music learning.
Proper synchronizing of voice with swar is very important in this lesson. It is better to stay on each swar for five seconds and gradually decrease your time to four seconds and in the end half second. At least half an hour continuous practice is important but you can increase your practice time according to your capability. Now you got familiar with Sargam notes in ascending and descending order so, we are going to write arohi and amrohi of sargam in normal style.
Now notations of Raga Kalyan sargam will be written from left to right but will be played according to direction of arrow as given below: Copyright www. If you get bored then take rest and divide your practice time in parts or play in front of friends or family members.
You should practice these till you can play them correctly without looking at the keyboard. While you practice, please sing along with notes so that you can improve your voice. The term Alankar literally means an ornament or decoration; it is the repetition of musical notes from a Raga in a particular pattern. Alankars are of four types: 1. Asthai Alankars, which returns to the initial note 2.
Arohi Alankars, which is a ascending sequence of notes 3. Amrohi Alankars, which is a descending sequence of notes 4. Sanchari Alankars, which combines elements of the above types. Alankars are extremely useful for practice and are a great way of getting familiar with your keyboard or harmonium. Here are some more Alankars for practice; try to play them continuously for an extended period of time; its extremely important that your fingers move smoothly on the keyboard because when you are playing a metered melody, an extra second's hesitation is enough to send you out of synchronization with the taal or rhythm.
Play in madh saptak: 1. These will help in improving your ability to play the instrument and also improve your voice.
When you sing the alankars saying SRG You can practice singing the same alankars in Aakar, ie. We have explained Aakar in sargam lesson earlier. Raga Shuddh Kalyan is played in the evening. Varjya swar are only in arohi which is ma and ni. Varjya Swar in a raga are the notes, those are strictly excluded in rendition. Varjya Swar is the enemy of the raga.
If a Varjya Swar is accidentally used during rendition of a particular raga, it will spoil the atmosphere that a particular raga is supposed to create. Its Thaat parent scale is Kalyan. Hence all notes in arohi and amrohi have been shown in upper case. This raga is more suited for men's voice. This raga should be sung in vilambit laya slow speed.
If Ga is used as vaadi then this raga should be sung after Raga Yaman. Raga Shuddh Kalyan is a balance of ragas Bhoopali and Yaman.
Raga Shuddh Kalyan is an immensely popular raga in the world of classical music. Pakkad or bandish are the most dominating notes of a given raga.
Each raga has its own bandish. In a way, bandish is a common factor within all the tunes composed on a given raga. For both songs use the same electronic rhythm Latin Bolero in Keyboards. The reason for using the same electronic rhythm is an attempt to show the similarity between both songs, which are both based on Raga Shudh Kalyan.
These two songs were composed by two of the greatest music directors: Shankar-Jaikisan and S. Burman respectively around the year Since both songs were composed in Raga Shudh Kalyan, both have the same bandish or pakkad.
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They have all been written down in Bhatkhandeji's music notation system - svarlipi. For non-Hindi speaking readers, i twill be quite easy and fast to learn the mere twelve symbols needed to fully understand the themes 7 notes and 5 metric terms.
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