Guided Listening | Raga Desh | Pandit Nikhil Banerjee

Pandit Nikhil Banerjee
Pandit Mahapurush Misra
Raga Desh

Namaskar, everyone 🙏🏼

3 months since the last video! Man, I dipped out from social media pretty heavily the last few months. It started during the holidays, but just kinda continued after that 🤷🏽‍♂️...

I have really appreciated the kind, and thoughtful feedback for these past few videos. Obviously many of you feel like me, and have wanted to have these kinds of resources. Awesome! I am definitely looking at how to make them more concise, but I suppose the music itself is a testament to the human spirit of long-form art. I guess not everything needs to be 30 seconds, haha.

Thanks to everyone who has been watching and writing (comments, emails, everything). I apologize for the late replies these past months.

I do not post often "enough" as is, but working on changing that. This video has been sitting since November 2023; this is why I mention the festival season starting up at the end.

This recording was a free, live, Zoom class taught through our Ali Akbar College of Music. I started these during the pandemic to help create more community spaces for lovers of the music, and students.

This is the link to the full video, posted by Steven Baigel ji:
   • Nikhil Banerjee and Mahapurush Misra ...  

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - Raga Info
7:16 - Desh vs. Desh Malhar
9:05 - Tangent I: Gats & Potential Contradictions
11:22 - Tangent II: Taans
14:27 - Back to Desh vs Desh Malhar
15:48 - Questions for the Recording
16:43 - Concert
17:32 - Tanpura Tuning & N/n Dissonance
20:31 - Concert (Actually)
27:19 - Discussion (Komal Ni, Ornaments, Context, Zamzama, Presence, Sam)
35:22 - Concert
40:06 - Shuddh Ni & How to Avoid the Antara
46:30 - Exploring Nuances
49:43 - Concert
54:21 - Taking A Line As A Practice Tool
56:35 - Question About: P N S R G R
57:26 - Concert
1:00:20 - Taan & Slowing Down & Part-Practice Ideas
1:02:59 - Concert
01:04:20 - End of Alap into Gat
01:04:58 - Concert (Jhaptal)
01:06:59 - Formatting A Concert
01:09:13 - Concert
01:12:30 - How We Can Use the Re to Get to Ni/ni & Traps in Studying Recordings
01:15:26 - Concert
01:17:30 - Line Design & Interplay
01:18:26 - Concert
01:26:33 - Final Thoughts (Practice, Importance of Listening)
FIN

With my love and pranam 🌸🙏🏼🌸