 What are we doing? I'm admiring that pretty fantastic mug. It's not really a controversial statement either. No, it really is. Hey welcome back to our stupid or ex's edit. I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. Instagram, Twitter. Twitter. I remember when we got called today we're racking to an informational video this is called read this whole thing Truba gosh demonstrates the Sarangi This video Is a demonstration about the instrument called Sarangi? You have reacted to a couple of videos where Sarangi was played among other instruments But you haven't done an in-depth video about how it works and what it can do with notes and compositions be it Eastern or Western music using different types of bows. It is a very complex instrument, very hard to learn. Sarangi is also said to be the most closest to resemble the sound of the human voice. P.S. watch the namesake. That's right up there, that's right behind Bahawali too. The namesake. Now there's one guy that keeps telling us to watch and it's this gentleman right here. Alright, here we go. Yeah, we've seen this instrument. Yeah. Beautiful instrument. All strings cry. This one mourns. This sounds like Mahesh Kail. Yeah. All strings can weep. This one like, like the resonance makes those other strings vibrate. One piece of wood into which the wooden pegs are inserted. The belly is hollow carved out, covered with parchment, gold skin. The foot of the bridge touches the rim of the belly that itself transmits the sound. We have three main strings, mostly of all gut strings and about 30 to 35 symphonic strings of thin gauge steel. Could you say 30 to 35? The three main strings are of gut, but I use the lowest one. I use the metal string from the cello. The strings are tuned. The main strings, the tonic of the middle octave, lower fifth and lower octave and there are 30 to 35 symphonic strings made of thin gauge steel. They are tuned to the notes of the Hiraga or the scale. There are four sets of symphonic strings. There are two on top tuned definitely to the scale and you see the small bridges which give a special timber, some twang to it, which excites the other sets of strings. So we have the side series which is again and also tuned to the scale and there are underneath chromatic strings. It has an easily playable range of three octaves and the fourth is used only for harmonics. We don't press the string downwards like in the cello but we play with the cuticles of the index, middle and ring finger. There are two styles of playing. One is on the edge of the cuticle and the nail which I follow and the other style is purely about the cuticles which forms thick calluses. When I began learning I played with the second style purely on the cuticles and then I gradually came across a teacher who a great master who showed me this technique of playing the chord. I'm sure it is when you start. That's all on the cuticle. Looks like he cut himself. Things like which I borrowed from string instruments, plucked instruments. This is never done on the sarangi traditionally. They would play violin. The traditional sarangi bow holds the same emotion you hear from a whale. Contravers bow, German style and I would hold it like this, like this in that sense to come to very low energy levels. This is a very, actually it's an adaptation of the western bow but used in India for a string instrument which is a hybrid between the sarangi and the star. It's called Israj. I use this because it gives me shorter strokes and I can paint more number of strokes with this. I rate it much volume with this because of its weight is light. Now some Indian bow maker has tried to make a hybrid between the traditional sarangi bow and the contravers bow. I guess they're like other string instruments that kind of like this rather than flat like on a guitar. Free grace notes are executed in high speed. Variations is the reverse of that that becomes the third one. Another variation. The most common is murki or what you call mordent. Instead of going like this horizontally, we take an arc. We would keep the finger on the middle point and go rip your finger open. The finger goes like an arc. If I do the arc system, slide within the arc but move over many notes instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, point A, 2, point B, like one another. Another use is funded vibrato, what we call Andolan. Like you need of doing that. You can't be doing it. Vibrato in slow motion. Mali is going to start lower and then go up. You know that about Afghanistan. What that's used is this. Oh yeah. You really cut. You could chase scenes, sex scenes. If I play a few routines, some more combinations can happen. But these these are more building up of my brick by brick. But if I want to take artistic leaves, so I'm not playing. I want to do whatever I would think of is what I'm playing. So this gives this small touch phrase helps me to get more, opens up many more windows for unfolding. Like what I do mostly is to make my own transcriptions below the staff in the Indian Sarakama. This is one. Sometimes I just write the idea, how you want it. If it's a passage where you don't dictate a set of notes, but you say you want this kind of nuance to emerge, then I would make some kind of symbolic things there. And maybe if you indicate certain notes, I would write just grace over those notes, you know, ideally recording and notation. Because I would at the subliminal level try to make a picture visualization of the notation. I'll not use it, but it still plays a role in giving the timeline. Pulu, Rock Pulu, the basic scale, uses flat seventh and sixth natural, natural third, ascending and descending orders, sitting in a freaking music class at a doctoral level. I'm sure he's like a, whatever you call the math and ustagia, whatever. But it's like if ustagi sat down and broke down the tabla, which would be insane for you. But that's what it felt like. And you understood a lot more than that than I did, because he was saying a bunch of words that I know are musical words, but I don't know what they mean. Well, there's some I didn't know, but there's several in there, like when you're talking about grace notes, which are any grace notes or notes that are outside of whatever you're going to be playing or supposed to be playing, which is a lot of those. And there's different styles of grace notes where in rock music, you would know that. It's anytime they're taking a note, they're bending it and it's not written that way and they're adding their feeling to it. And then vibrato, you know vibrato. Singers control their vibrato or at least should be able to control the vibrato. It's the capacity in the voice to have a tremble in it and then come out. So they go, ah, that's the vibrato. You can do that to any, because these are strings. Your vocal chords are a string instrument. So any string instrument can have a vibrato as long as it's, I mean, the hardest one to do that on is the piano, because it's just a straight hammer strike on it from inside. But those, any bowed instruments that you have that, and I didn't even, did you realize he was doing cuticles until he explained it? I thought he was just doing, I didn't know a string. I thought all string instruments were on the tips of the fingers. That's what I thought. That was painful. Very painful. That looks like, because I feel like it's really sliding, sliding on it. And we can't tell especially the times when he put his cuticle under and he's doing the arc, because I don't know how tight those strings are. Obviously he said he has calluses, but like when you're starting, do you just bleed all the time? Yeah, because that happens with guitar. Like Brian Adams said, play to tell my finger who's bled. That's what happens when you're a guitar player. Yeah. When you start playing, your, your fingers are going to blister. If you're playing a lot, you'll bleed and you have to build the calluses. Yeah. Clearly you hit on your freaking cuticles. That's insane. That sounds painful. But no, this is the sound. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a beautiful, it's a beautiful, beautiful weeping sound. With a wide range of, yeah, you could do an entire score with just an instrument, I feel like. That would be very cool. Yeah. Maybe they have. Yeah. They very well may have watched Saatchajit rise down and never even knew, right? That was cool though. Super, super cool. Just learned so much. So if you have more videos like that, please send them our way. You know, we like stuff like this. I hope you do too. Let us know what other reasons we can react to down below.