I’m going to try and live stream every day this week as I went about 5 days without practicing sitar due to travel.
The audio is out of sync tonight, sorry about that. Live streaming is hard!
I’m going to try and live stream every day this week as I went about 5 days without practicing sitar due to travel.
The audio is out of sync tonight, sorry about that. Live streaming is hard!
This week a viewer asked me questions about tuning problems on his sitar. So, here are some common fixes and information about sitar frets.
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I cover how to tie a sitar string loop, chalk pegs and the process of tuning.
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Hi, I’m Jeff Starr, a sitar student and filmmaker. In this video I unbox all the sitar gear I carry in my “grab bag” and show you what I use when practicing.
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Here is a video of me practicing Alap for Raga Yaman.
Raga Yaman Alap is something I have been slowly learning over the years. For the past few months my teacher has been having me focus a lot of Gat and Taans. Then over the past few weeks we started spending more time during my lesson discussing and playing Alap.
Since I was traveling this week I figured I would shoot a video playing alap to document my current progress compared to the previous videos I have posted. You can see those in the links below. I hope I am getting better. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
Old Alap Videos:
October 2016: https://youtu.be/ohiPO4el_D0
July 2016: https://youtu.be/AZ7mkE4LKpA
April 2016: https://youtu.be/s29hjlDTghI
If you want to learn more about the sitar I am playing you can watch this video:
https://youtu.be/PUA3P_YwMOA
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A viewer recently asked how often I practice my Paltas so I wanted to make a video to show what that part of my practice is like. For those wondering, I always include Paltas as part of my warm up.
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I am working to build up speed as my teacher wants me to play at 200 beats per minute (BPM). Let’s see how fast I can get today!
Here is a video of me practicing one of my Taans for Raga Yaman. I give all my my Taans nicknames and I call this one “Confused #1.”
I took my first sitar lesson on January 27th, 2012.
In an attempt to build up speed, I’m practicing the sargam to Raga Yaman.
Playing the sitar is hard and it can be really painful. In this video I’ll demonstrate the method I use to tape my fingers. This helps reduce pain and can be very useful when you have been practicing a lot. Or, if you are just beginning to learn sitar using tape can be helpful while your fingers build up a callous.
Some additional thoughts:
Sorry for the messy room. I figured it was better for me to shoot a video surrounded by my son’s toys than to clean everything up and not have time to make the video.
You don’t want to use tape every time you practice.
I suggest masking tape because it’s very slick on the strings and also because the glue is fairly weak allowing you to take the tape off easily. It also won’t leak glue onto your strings like a fabric athletic tape will.
I changed my shirt halfway into filming so that you can see my hands better. But if you like the shirt I was wearing, you can buy one at http://copycreditmeals.net/ My buddy runs that website and is giving his profits back to artists, actors, etc.
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This is a video to document my progress learning the Alap from Raga Yaman.
I think it’s starting to come together a bit better now. Listen to this video from earlier this year, back in in April.
I feel like I’ve made some really good improvements, although I still have a long way to go.
I am playing a Barun Ray (Hiren Roy’s son) sitar. I have been taking sitar lessons since 2012.
Thanks for watching and please feel free to comment.
Audio was recorded in LogicX.
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