This course is for beginners wishing to learn the Indian slide guitar, also known as Mohan Veena or Hindustani Slide Guitar. Students pursuing this course will not only learn to play the Mohan Veena / Hindustani Slide Guitars, they will also learn to play the acoustic guitar. By the end of this course, students will be able to render a Bollywood classic song, an English song on the acoustic or play any one of 5 basic Ragas on the slide guitar or Mohan Veena.
Course details:
This course is a long term course for students wishing to learn the sliding guitar or Mohan Veena. Students enrolling for this course start by learning the 10 Thaats or musical scale based ragas. Thāat is a mode in northern Indian or Hindustani music. Thāats always have seven different pitches, called swara and are a basis for the organization and classification of ragas in North Indian classical music. The course will simultaneously train students on the finger techniques(Both Left hand and Right Hand) to use on the Indian slide guitar.Further on they would also be trained to practise playing Meend, Gamak , Murki and Palta also known as Alankara.Further on in the course the students will be taught vadi, samvadi and nash swara of the basic raga, Composition and the Taal system. Students will be supervised to practice five basic ragas like Yaman, Raag Bhoopali, Raag Kirwani, Raag Todi and Raag Bhairavi. This course apart from teaching students about different ragas, talas and bandish will also touch on topics like loops, phrases,Run Practice,Composition in different Rhythmic cycle, Taan and Vistaar with the Composition. It would also train students on Vilambit, Madhyalaya & drut composition in five different basic Raga.Along with Indian Classical Music Students can also learn old and New Bollywood Music, Folk music also.
Prerequisites — The student requires to have:
1. Either an acoustic guitar of 6 strings or a sliding guitar with the same number of strings;
2. Two picks, one thumb pick or Plectrum;
3. Steel bar;
4. Metronome and a tuner; and
5. Students with some knowledge on music might be at an advantage
Benefits:
This course looks to train you to play the Slide Classical Guitar or Acoustic Guitar in a short period of time, helping you create and build a foundation in Hindustani classical music as well as Bollywood Music, Folk Music and Western Theory and Numbers .
Course Features
- Lectures 25
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 45 minutes
- Skill level All levels
- Students 121
- Assessments Yes