Guitar Fretboard maps of Raaga Kharaharapriya To the right is C Dorian scale played starting from the 5th fret of the 3rd string. The next image shows the same C Dorian scale in terms of South Indian Carnatic classical notation or Sa Ri Ga Ma. C Dorian shares the same notes as the Raga Kharaharapriya, Read the full article…

We can talk about chords in terms of Indian notation, especially when talking about chords for ragas. Talk about major seventh note as the big Ni or the N3, and the major seventh chord spelling as S, big Ga, Pa and N3. Using big Ga and N3 together, as above, is a mixture of notation, Read the full article…

Would you like to play Geetams, Varnams and Kritis on the guitar? Get the swaras from your textbook or the internet and the Raga app has made life very easy for you. The new version of the Raga on guitar fretboard mapping app shows you where each swara of the raga is. you get to Read the full article…

Click on the play button (top left) to listen to the phrase. Raaga Hamsadhwani Phrase Example |G , , , G , , R | SRG , , , , R| NRNR G , , R| NRNP Each alphabet and comma is of a sixteenth note duration. Let us find out the chords for D Read the full article…

Above are the notes and tab for the beginning of the Carnatic geetham Sreegananaatha / Lambodara. Starting from 3rd string open G as Sa, the melody is played within the first four frets of the guitar. Try playing it – use first, third and fourth fingers for 1st,3rd and 4th frets respectively. The geetham is Read the full article…

Jazz and melodic minor All the chords we will look at in this article are taken from the melodic minor harmony. Modern jazz uses melodic minor and its chords a lot. This article introduces you to three melodic minor chords used frequently in jazz by masters. Working with these chord symbols, finding the notes and Read the full article…

Is there a way to find the notes of a raga once we know the number? The Katapayadi system page on wiki has an explanation. Here I have explained it in the way I use it and where we used it to make something useful. The pattern identification logic behind finding swaras of a Melakarta Read the full article…

The Raga on Guitar App shows you the scale positions to play Indian Ragas on the guitar fretboard. How to start finding raga note positions on the guitar You choose : the root ('Root' to the right of 'preset patterns') the string where the root should be played on ('Start @' below 'intelli patterns') and Read the full article…

This post gives you an example of playing South Indian raga mayamalavagowla. All the colored notes are part of Mayamalavagowla. G is taken as the root in this example. In blue color are the other notes in the mayamalavagowla scale. The fifth note of the scale – D – has been colored differently, as a Read the full article…

Raaga Sivaranjini C Sivaranjini has the following notes : C D Eb G A C (wiki entry) Writing the scale as intervals we get : Root – major 2nd – minor 3rd – fifth – major 6th – root Minor 6th chord Spelling of a minor 6th chord : root – minor 3rd – fifth Read the full article…