How to Play the Sitar : Using Tanpuras for Accompaniment

Learn about tanpuras, the droning instruments used to accompany sitar players in this free online music lesson on how to play the sitar.

Expert: Amelia Maciszewski
Contact: www.sangeetmillennium.org.com
Bio: Amelia Maciszewski has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, and has been performing Hindustani music for over 20 years.

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[dijonH]

there are no rules. find the music yourself.

[ColoradoBansuri]

penta15786, All music can take a lifetime of learning. It's like science, not a fiction novel. Of course there is no end to what can be produced.

Just because, to us, it's "eastern" music does not make it harder to comprehend.  it is music with a grammar and syntax, no different than jazz or rock and roll. It just has to be learned properly and studied.

[MrWhySoSeriousKhan]

tanpura are mostly for raag singing and would be for having you voice develop as well.

[TheShabinski]

I'll bet her pussy smells like a yak's balls

[NinetiesYouth]

tanpuras are the reason Indian music doesn't have harmony/chord progressions

[lSTAYHlGH]

ive been trying to create stuff like Om's God is good record for a while im glad i figured what it was. now to drop out of life bong in hand

[iw2mln]

@ColoradoBansuri I fully agree with you. If you start studying western music, it takes also a life time. You discover tha ancient harmonies, then the classic harmony then the contemporary harmony, then all the styles that going over all the harmonic rules and so on.

The music is a infinite world: western as well as eastern. I think that more than concentrate on rues to learn, people should start or better to re-start to feel just the music inside them. It doesn't mean to neglet rules. ;-)

[dzlvs8]

whip out your box. :D

[defyinggeneration]

this instrument sounds beautiful but i mean it seems boring to play thats why i wanna take in sitar

[AGGOZZUR]

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

[pissballs]

Put on your mind relaxer.

Get the tablas out were jammin!

[ColoradoBansuri]

and now for all you that are about to blurt out that i'm saying indian music is the same as jazz or rock and roll.

I'm not. I'm saying that the learning process is not different. Jazz and rock sound like jazz and rock because they operate on a grammatical system. to learn any musical style effectively, one must learn the grammar.