How to Play the Sitar : Meend Technique for the Sita

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Uploaded by on Apr 19, 2006

Learn the sitar technique know as meend 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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  • expert village sucks

  • I want to meet a nice woman who will play me to sleep with the sitar. I would love her for life.

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  • @jadaskylar Callouses aren't painful, GETTING the callouses are painful lol. It's the same for all stringed instruments, guitar, sitar, I'm sure violin, etc. etc. After you have the callouses, the pain is gone

  • @jadaskylar Sorry but sitar is a sadomasochistic endeavor. Unless you like the pain you don't deserve to play it. However more importantly there is a sensitivity which is lost with finger caps. Sitar is such a fine instrument that you need every available nerve active to be able to play it.

  • Can't you get fingers caps to avoid getting callouses? I think that's what they're called, anyway.

    I want to learn how to play sitar, but want to avoid these callouses. They sound extremely painful. D:

  • @luishem you got that right- i originate from this culture, living with this music, and to me this is horrible

  • a guitar techs worst nightmare

  • wow this really helped me turn off youtube and get back to my work...

  • would be a white lady and a hippy not to sound racist though, just funny.

  • @luishem expert village does suck

  • no thanks. i would not want her as teacher. her looks are cold as ice. but sitar is something heart-warming...

  • dont sing please.. good meends though

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