Ravi Shankar is not a Sitar player?

With my full respect to Indian Classical Music and musicians!
These are 3 small parts of a published DVD of Raviji. A few facts about it: In the first section, called alap all the phrases (meends) are out of tune, in the second part (gat) there are meaningless taans and horrible sitar sound which is out of tune in every movement, and in the third part there is a fake polyphonic (?) playing with Anoushka, maybe like a "canon" in european music, but in Indian music it is meaningless, and the last notes of Raviji JUST meaningless as well and out of tune of course. And then the applause...
What is this? This shouldn't be Indian Classical Music! What is this for? And with his international respect it is a big responsibility because people like me buying this DVD and getting this "quality" of music, which is not good, because people will think that THIS IS the Old Tradition of India, what is not.

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[sbemnfbsmfksdfsbdfgs]

There's no respect in what you write. There's more beauty in a single note of Raviji's than you'll ever know. Rather than waste electricity with your stupidity, you should kindly go kill yourself.

[bigbuzman]

I am 56 . I have been listening to music a lot since I was a baby growing up in a home where my Father had an amazing ear for music and I inherited it. LOL . To me the 3 greatest musicians of the 20th century are John Coltrane , Jimi Hendrix and Ravi Shankar . There are musicicans that one could argue are maybe technically better at their respective instruments but they are B O R I N G . I have been listening to Ravi for 41 years adn he takes me to wonderful places that few others are able .

[birdandthe]

@ysmzaika 1 he is 90 years plus, 2 he has made it POSSIBLE for these sitar players to play to world audiences and sell many more records 3 had to put up with shit from conservative indians and mostly uncomprehending westerners 4 he has been a composer for orchestras as well as musician/ arranger,5 parvez at least is an outstanding player, IF NOT FOR RAVI & ALI AKBAR KHAN these guys would be limited to a very small rich clique in india, hopefully your misplaced snobery will wear off

[TamberlainesDance]

Wow, what a lot of passion and anger this debates involves! If Ravi has sparked this much emotion then he must be more important to the critizers than they think!!!! maybe some ego's need to be cleansed and reflected upon.

Music is a love for everyone and anyone that it brings love and happiness to..........'if you don't like something, don't listen to it' and don't ruin it for others that it makes happy just because an ego is envolved!!

Love x

[sadhan8]

Hey guys..why're you engaged with chasing each other ? Ravi Shankar is one of the many sitar mastreos. The fact is that he has gained a better access to the westerners due to his link with ISKCON, which others do not have.

[gamoeba123]

fuck you ravi shankar will shit on your children asshole.

[shashisimle]

For all the Westerners,

You need to first know that Pandit Ravi Shanker is Mastreo

In India Learning Music means first to respect the Masters while learning Music

This is the culture in India,,,,Who are we to scale a Legend like Ravi Shanker

Try to respect elders who are our Mothers and Fathers and Masters...Please develop this culture my dear Westerners

[grevejp44]

lol its funny cause like most americans he is the only indian artist i know

[terryjames230]

i did'nt say he was the best ,did i ? but he is a seasoned musician. and in a roundAbout way eluded to the fact that you never stop learning. a quote i'm quite sure even he would agree upon.............

[sadakokimono]

Well, it's not a canon, it's organum (a predecessor to polyphony, where the second voice improvises the same melody transposed down a fourth or fifth). He seems to be blending medieval Western musical ideas with classical Indian disciplines.

I'm no expert in sitar, but isn't sitar tuning somewhat unique to each sitarist? I mean, there's a general tuning based on the school of playing, then from there you tune to the raga, but beyond that, it's personal taste for each unique rendition, isn't it?