Raag Jog - Alap and Vilambit Teental - Indian Classical Guitar Performance

The new Raag Jog and Tihai rhythms course has now been released in full form! Visit my website https://www.indianclassicalguitar.com/

I have teamed up with my band mates Manish Pingle and Gurdain Rayatt to deliver the rhythmic sections of the course. Manish is an Indian slide guitar player who has studied with sitar Maestro Shahid Parvez. Shahid is thought by many to be one of the leading musicians of our time, particularly when it comes to the tihai concept and is known for his complexity and highly musical approach. This is very much reflected and Manish's playing and his approach to tihai as well.

Live footage curiously of SAA UK. https://www.saa-uk.org/

The 'Essential Techniques for Indian Guitar' course is also available via the upper tiers of Patreon so this should make it more accessible to people than before.

My main focus on the guitar is adapting Indian Classical Music and specifically sitar techniques to the instrument. By joining my patreon you can help me to direct all my energy into this exciting journey that is helping to create a new way to play the guitar and a new voice within Indian Classical Music.

I put a lot of energy and thought into making teaching materials for this new style and making it accessible to other guitar players. There is a real lack of material out there for playing raags on guitar or learning compositions. This is something I have been addressing and I want to continue to create a whole volume of videos with synchronized notation to show very accurately how these Indian pieces and be played on the guitar very effectively and authentically.

Your support can help me to fully sustain this endeavour and keep expanding the possibilities of what the guitar can do within this style.

I also have a through background in western theory and teaching concepts such as modes and diatonic-harmony. This helps me to relate this material to a western musician but also means I can give people a better idea of how the guitar fretboard works and the ways we can utilise it fully for playing raag scales across the instrument. So I will also make content about these music theory systems to help give a fuller picture to anyone who wants to learn the guitar by following my output as a teacher.

Part of my work is in collaborating with Indian musicians as well for concerts or recordings. So I look forward to sharing the music that comes out of those projects as well.

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