How to Play Basic Sitar : What is a Raga in Sitar Playing?

A raga is a sitar piece of music that incorporates a scale with a melody of sorts. Learn to play the sitar ragas from an authentically trained player in this free sitar video lesson.

Expert: Daisy Paradis
Contact: www.lotusmusicanddance.org
Bio: Daisy Paradis has been a sitar disciple of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan since 1966, playing many performances alongside legendary sitar players and attending workshops with Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller

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[aresx666]

@Shisha67 um, no they weren't. they were people who wanted to change the corrupted world that they saw into something that they knew it could be. A world of peace.

:/

[Shisha67]

Hippies were rich whiny kids from the 60's. This is someone who appreciates the music and cultures around the world and made the effort to learn it.

[MirzaAsadullah]

Indian music requires rigorous practise from an early age to even master a fraction of it. It can take a lifetime to master a handful of ragas with all their nuances. The music is also a couple of thousand or more years old when hippies were no whare to be seen. The only people capable of understanding and learning it, regardless of whether they're Western or Indian, are those who are highly pitch sensitive. They're also plenty of pitch deaf people in India who can't hear the notes.

[Panzerfisting]

@Shisha67 

[sugaroctopus]

this has nothing to do with hippies NOTHING AT ALL. So why are we even mentioning it? Yes there are hippies that want some cultural meaning to their lives so they decide to become hindu and buy a sitar but honestly they make their own videos so go spread all the biult up hate there.

[b1shitekki]

@aresx666 nope, other guy was right. they were whiny rich kids from the 60's who thought they could understand problems that were just far, far beyond them.

[indigolilac]

i soooo wanna learn now!

[Onespellpro]

@aresx666 Unfortunately, Their way to a world of peace was through drugs. Woodstock was the HQ. Only way to have world peace is if the whole world is completely satisfied. Never going to happen.

[panchamkauns]

In the video description it says "a raga is a sitar piece of music". How the fuck hard can it be to explain what a raga is, if you are an Indian-classical musicain, without elementary errors like that!?

[ruleta74835]

I think she is saying "raag" where the subtitles say "rod".

[fortunexever]

I appreciate the effort to teach on such a weird channel.

Don t mind the stupid comments. keep on. It is a great instrument and you teach very nicely..

thanks a lot.