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Showing posts with label shahid parvez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shahid parvez. Show all posts
100 Followers and Shahid Parvez
I've just hit the one hundred followers mark so thank you to everyone who is following the blog and commenting on the posts.
Just a short post to say thanks today so here is one of my favourite player, Shahid Parvez. This is an excellent video with all the close ups.
Sitar - Ustad Shahid Parvez from Sayeed Mohiuddin on Vimeo.
I haven't mentioned much about Shahid Parvez but he really is a legendary player. He comes from a family of classical Indian musicians spanning seven generations. His relatives include Imdad Khan, Wahid Khan, Wahid Khan, Vilayat Khan and Shujaat Khan. Quite impressive!
He was a child genius and was performing concerts in public by the time he was eight years old. Being one of the true masters of the instrument, Shahid prime example of what hard work and lots and lots of practice can do (and being part of one of the most famous families in Indian classical music).
Go over to his website and read some of his articles, he has some strong and traditional opinions about Indian music and how it should be performed - http://www.shahidparvezkhan.com/
Bhimpalasi Gat in Teental
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been playing with raga Bhimpalasi recently. I have to say that it currently my favourite raga and is so much fun to play in. It has a darker mood than Yaman which makes a nice change after playing that for so long.
Here is a gat that I have been learning, it is simple but sounds lovely. It is in teental:
I don't have much else to post at the moment, I haven't had a lot of time to practice really. I've spent quite when seems ages this week just learning to tune by ear. It's actually a lot easier than I thought and I don't know why I didn't start doing it ages ago.
All you have to do is tune the Sa string to whatever note you want to use (C, C# or D usually) and tune everything to that, listening to the dissonance in each string and adjusting until it stops fluttering. So simple.
I also managed to fix a small problem I was having with fret placement. They were looking uneven so I spent a while making sure they were all in the right place according to the perfectly tuned taraf string and now they're looking much better, much more even and where they should be.
This is Usted Shahid Parvez Khan playing raga Bhimpalasi (starts at about 18 seconds):
Here is a gat that I have been learning, it is simple but sounds lovely. It is in teental:
I don't have much else to post at the moment, I haven't had a lot of time to practice really. I've spent quite when seems ages this week just learning to tune by ear. It's actually a lot easier than I thought and I don't know why I didn't start doing it ages ago.
All you have to do is tune the Sa string to whatever note you want to use (C, C# or D usually) and tune everything to that, listening to the dissonance in each string and adjusting until it stops fluttering. So simple.
I also managed to fix a small problem I was having with fret placement. They were looking uneven so I spent a while making sure they were all in the right place according to the perfectly tuned taraf string and now they're looking much better, much more even and where they should be.
This is Usted Shahid Parvez Khan playing raga Bhimpalasi (starts at about 18 seconds):
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