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I'm looking for learning music. Im not new to learning music. I have completed 2nd year hindustani vocal. Want to continue my learning. Can you suggest good teacher or guru is you know or if you are learning already? Will be very grateful 🙏

I've been learning classical music for 8 years but I'm still unable to spontaneously come up with taans in the middle of singing a bandish. Advice and guidance would be appreciated.

Hi All, I am just trying to understand if there is possiblity to do royaz in 20 minutes. If yes, how should I approach it .

I stumbled upon rasraj ji maharaj’s lo-fi versions of some bhajans, and finding them soothing to listen. Am I slowly turning into my dad?

Hello everyone,

I am decent harmonium and tabla player. I have been singing for past 10 years but not on a daily basis. For past 3 to 4 years I have been very less frequent and sing occasionally once or twice a month.

I was listening to my old recordings 6 years old and I loved how i sound that time. I have resumed now and I feel like I have been practicing my SA on a wrong scale as I can go 2 3 keys down in kharj. Is there a way I can find and realign to my actual Sa and bring my singing skills back?

Will be very grateful for your guidance 🙏

I recently discovered the music of maestro Ustad Naseeruddin Saami. He's from the Qawwal Bachchon ka Gharana of Delhi (but based out of Karachi) and is known as being the only vocalist (along with his 3 sons) to perform in the surti scale which is microtonal and divides the 12-tone octave into 49 pitches. Unfortunately, finding info on this online is basically impossible and the Western record labels redistributing his music have given rather poor liner notes. One of them claims it is a precursor to qawwali which seems believable but I do want to know more. Is there any good info?

I was in practice of khayal long ago, I had learnt both Kafi and Bhimpalasi, till now I can feel no difference between the two ragas, both have the exact swaras as komal, what is the difference in their chalan?

Haven’t been able to figure out where this is from (see video from 27:42 onwards).

Hi everyone,

I’m currently pursuing my MSc in Clinical Psychology, and as someone who has also grown up learning Carnatic music, I’ve always been curious about the way music shapes us beyond performance, such as if it improves our attention, memory, mood regulation, etc.

I’m currently researching that in my dissertation and I’m looking for vocalists trained in India forms of music between the age 18-35 as participants.

The criteria is atleast three years of formal learning and engagement in practice.

It will take you around 15 minutes to complete the survey, which will consist of a computerised memory task and a few short questionnaires.

It would genuinely mean a lot to me to have musicians from this community take part in the research. I really hope this study can contribute, even in a small way, to understanding Indian classical music not only as an art form, but also as how it contributes to well being :)

Link to the survey has been attached

I’m westerner and recently I had a particular interest in the Raag cuz I like hear for meditation 🧘 and get inspiration, I playing guitar 🎸 and I usually try play raag bhairav using the next notes: C C# E F G G# A# C
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Da Ni Sa

I don’t if it is correct 👍

Someone could tell me the translate the raag bhairav to wester scales .

I Began My Foundational Classical Art journey at age of 7 in Harmonium , Early days I enjoyed Playing Harmonium So Much af
i gave my parambhik exam at 4th class
Praveshika pratham at 5th and later complete my praveshika poorna in 9th class (due to pandamic with 2nd grade in harmonium subject). idk how i lost my interest going to harmonium classes just i wasnt getting interest i mean my guru use to teach me only surfacelevel type i mean just introduc raag do saragam geeet and tana and stuff (i sturggle in tana in harmonium) in 9th class i found that i am interest and naturally good at Vocals but i never seen it but i ignored it.because i wanna continue it in harmonium

Reason i Ignored Vocal because of Social Anxiety as being from tier 5 city

My Mom Tired to get me futher better new admission near my city but yeahh travelling wasnt possible for my parents

later on i lost my interest in acedemics..because of constant bullying from school n stuff..i couldnt able to Cope up in this both in Music and Acedemics

later on i failed in madhyama poorna in class 10th and class 11th..and in class 12th i didnt gave the exam..

🙆🏻‍♂️My 2 friends who were in same class are Visharad Poorna

I am feeling so much like a loser

What Should i Do now?

I moved to a new city recently. I dont have my harmonium here curently. Can i learn music(vocal) without harmonium. I know it's a stupid question. But i want to continue learning really bad. And i can not bring back my harmonium very soon since my home is far away.

A couple of months ago, I posted here about my mother (52) starting online Hindustani Classical vocal lessons. I just wanted to thank everyone who reached out with encouragement and interest. It genuinely helped.

She's a Sangeet Prabhakar and Sangeet Visharad with over 40 years of experience, and over the past two months she's been teaching students online.

We've continued to receive quite a few enquiries, so we've decided to start a few small online batches (3–5 students max) instead of only one-on-one lessons. Keeping the batches small is important to us so that every student still receives individual attention.

✅️ If you had reached out earlier or are interested in joining one of the upcoming batches, feel free to DM me. Happy to share the details.

Thanks again to this community for helping us get started. 🙏

Ustad Tari Khan.

I was mesmerized and in stitches at the same time, what a mahol wah.