Lessons

Counting Beats, Taals, Tihais, Chakkardars

Learn how Taals work , Learn how to count Beats – including the more complex beats with fractions.
Learn how Tihais work and how to create your own.

Lessons List

This list will be available in the “Learn-Online” page above as well.

Lessons: Update

The basic structure of the system I will be using to serve online workshops has been put in place.
No obligations. Learn what you want, when you want, if you want.
But please carefully read through the “learn-online” page at the top first.

There are 3 free lessons up for beginners who have some experience with the [...]

Playing in Different Scales without re-Tuning

Playing in Different Scales without re-Tuning

Expected Results for this workshop:
Tune your instrument so switching scales is easy.
Train yourself to be able to play from any SA setting – without re-tuning your instrument.
Improve your note-matching skills , for accompaniment.

Make your Own Esraj!!!!

Interested in trying to make your own Esraj / Dilruba ?
Instructions by Mr. Dennis Havlena.
Be sure to check out his Youtube videos and subscribe to his channel.
Once you’re looking at the instructions there one point to keep in mind:
My personal opinion is that, a lighter, less dense bridge would help give a bigger/louder sound. [...]

Compound Meends & Murki

this workshop contains
2 exercises for slightly more complex meends you can use as embellishments
1 exercise to practice producing Murkis
and 1 exercise for Vibrato

Level: intermediate

Cost: $19