Sitar Saturday - The Basics
Time for another #sitarsaturday
My favorite format for sitar is just a basic setup with a tabla player and the sitar doing crazy improvisation. This guy does quite a few interesting left hand picking techniques.
Here is another good jam. The sitar player is quite fast. One of the tricks they do to be able to play fast is to dip their left hand fingers in patchouli oil to get them to make the fast slides on the strings. I tried it once but my fingers started slipping off on the bends.
For concentration on programming I usually try listening to slower sitar improvisations like this. This player really concentrates on bending as many notes out of one position. This one also has a tanpura in the background to add more of a drone effect.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)
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Thanks for the reminder to listen to some sitar! Beautiful.
I find it helpful for focus while working.
I've been listening to a lot of slide/indian tunes on Spotify for same reason, or at least to calm my afternoon down.
Slide as in slide guitar? That reminds me I have to give more attention to my cigar box guitar for slide.
Happy #sitarsaturday Nice to see a woman in the mix and I like her slower style.
Hey man, I've also been indepth in Indian Classical as of late having picked up a Sarangi in the last few months and already using it for a concert.
As a lot of my music and interests which are traditional in nature or dare I say it - 'world music' - (ugh, what an icky term created by the west to box 90 percent of the music world away from itself, haha) - I don't really find a place on Hive that is specifically about traditional music disciplines.
Would you be interested in collaborating on a community that specifically caters to these interests? Could also in time develop a kind of open mic which invites only traditional styles and traditional instruments.
Group could be called something catchy and/or even related to the idea of Modal music as a form work for traditional approaches to music - to encompass anything from Turkish Makam to Indian Classical and inbetween and around the borders.
I still have some faith and hope in Hive though my direct participation has been largely minimal - as I discover how much more and more the main social media channels are very much directed and controlled, much more so than ever before - it seems screaming into this echo chamber run by a different kind of profiteers is preferable to screaming into a chamber under intense surveillance with limit of algorithm reach affecting your self esteem (if you let it of course).
Modal Music Heaven? Would like to avoid the term 'world music' as much as possible.... lol