Learn Raga Todi in 60 Minutes (Exotic Guitar Scales for Solo Guitar Book 5)
Book Details
Author(s)Abhijit Chavda
PublisherAbhijit Chavda
ISBN / ASINB007SOQ118
ISBN-13978B007SOQ111
Sales Rank2,056,816
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
About the eBook Series (Exotic Guitar Scales for Solo Guitar):
If you are a creative guitarist and are seeking to expand your musical horizons, then you will love playing Indian Ragas.
Ragas are millennia-old musical constructs that originated in Indian music. They are widely used in Indian and Asian music, and were first introduced to Western audiences in the 1950s and 1960s by Ravi Shankar and the Beatles. The pioneering guitarist Davy Graham used Ragas extensively in his music, as did Jimmy Page of the legendary Rock Band Led Zeppelin. Many other artists and bands such the Rolling Stones the Doors also experimented with Raga music in the 1970s. Kula Shaker had great success in the 1990s with their brand of Raga Rock.
Exotic as they may appear to be, Ragas are surprisingly easy to understand and learn, and can be incorporated into any kind of Western music, be it Blues, Rock, Jazz, Folk, or any other genre.
Several contemporary Western artists experiment with Ragas, but Ragas remain an obscure branch of music because very little literature is available about them. This eBook series - Exotic Guitar Scales for Solo Guitar - is an attempt to redress this imbalance.
Each eBook in this series assumes that the reader has no prior knowledge of Ragas or Indian music, and therefore serves a two-fold purpose: firstly, to instruct the reader about Ragas in general – what a Raga is, what its aspects are, and how it should be played; and secondly, to instruct the reader about the particular Raga in question.
About this eBook (Learn Raga Todi in 60 Minutes):
This eBook contains numerous fretboard diagrams, tabs, do-it-yourself examples, and practice and improvisation tips to cover the basics and get you started on the road to becoming an advanced exponent of Raga Todi. You need not have any prior knowledge of Ragas or Indian music. Advanced soloists will gain the most from this eBook.
Most readers will be able to read this eBook in an hour and start applying the concepts immediately. They will find a whole new musical experience opening up to them.
About Raga Todi:
Raga Todi is traditionally played in the first quarter of the day, beginning from sunrise. Raga Todi evokes a range of emotions ranging from tenderness, love, ecstasy, and playfulness to sadness, pathos, and melancholia. Some of the adjectives that describe the character of this Raga are: tender, satisfied, frolicsome, demanding, confident, sad, pathetic, hopeful, full of sunshine, and loving.
Some of these emotions may appear at first glance to be at cross-purposes with one another, but you will find as you develop experience at playing the Raga that different notes and combinations of notes produce different – and often conflicting – moods and emotions, that there are many sub-plots involved, and that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Raga Todi is one of the few Ragas that make the listener experience such a range of emotions; such is the scale and scope of this Raga that it has spawned numerous child Ragas over the years.
Raga Todi is a heptatonic Raga; it is symmetric in its ascending and descending scales.
If you are a creative guitarist and are seeking to expand your musical horizons, then you will love playing Indian Ragas.
Ragas are millennia-old musical constructs that originated in Indian music. They are widely used in Indian and Asian music, and were first introduced to Western audiences in the 1950s and 1960s by Ravi Shankar and the Beatles. The pioneering guitarist Davy Graham used Ragas extensively in his music, as did Jimmy Page of the legendary Rock Band Led Zeppelin. Many other artists and bands such the Rolling Stones the Doors also experimented with Raga music in the 1970s. Kula Shaker had great success in the 1990s with their brand of Raga Rock.
Exotic as they may appear to be, Ragas are surprisingly easy to understand and learn, and can be incorporated into any kind of Western music, be it Blues, Rock, Jazz, Folk, or any other genre.
Several contemporary Western artists experiment with Ragas, but Ragas remain an obscure branch of music because very little literature is available about them. This eBook series - Exotic Guitar Scales for Solo Guitar - is an attempt to redress this imbalance.
Each eBook in this series assumes that the reader has no prior knowledge of Ragas or Indian music, and therefore serves a two-fold purpose: firstly, to instruct the reader about Ragas in general – what a Raga is, what its aspects are, and how it should be played; and secondly, to instruct the reader about the particular Raga in question.
About this eBook (Learn Raga Todi in 60 Minutes):
This eBook contains numerous fretboard diagrams, tabs, do-it-yourself examples, and practice and improvisation tips to cover the basics and get you started on the road to becoming an advanced exponent of Raga Todi. You need not have any prior knowledge of Ragas or Indian music. Advanced soloists will gain the most from this eBook.
Most readers will be able to read this eBook in an hour and start applying the concepts immediately. They will find a whole new musical experience opening up to them.
About Raga Todi:
Raga Todi is traditionally played in the first quarter of the day, beginning from sunrise. Raga Todi evokes a range of emotions ranging from tenderness, love, ecstasy, and playfulness to sadness, pathos, and melancholia. Some of the adjectives that describe the character of this Raga are: tender, satisfied, frolicsome, demanding, confident, sad, pathetic, hopeful, full of sunshine, and loving.
Some of these emotions may appear at first glance to be at cross-purposes with one another, but you will find as you develop experience at playing the Raga that different notes and combinations of notes produce different – and often conflicting – moods and emotions, that there are many sub-plots involved, and that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Raga Todi is one of the few Ragas that make the listener experience such a range of emotions; such is the scale and scope of this Raga that it has spawned numerous child Ragas over the years.
Raga Todi is a heptatonic Raga; it is symmetric in its ascending and descending scales.
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