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Sitar, sarod and other plucked instruments:
Level 1 :
• About the instrument and how to strum it.
• Playing of da and ra sound.
• Playing of Alankars along with vigorous practice sessions for obtaining speed and precision of notes.
• Playing simple gats.
Level 2:
• Tuning the instrument
• Playing alap and a brief and simple jod and madhyalaya and drut gats.
Level 3:
• Playing jhala
• Playing meend and gamaks
* Learn more gats in many more ragas.
Level 4:
• Playing vilambit and drut gats with elaborate alaps, jod, jhala and super-fast jhala.
* Will be taught thumris, too.
* Will be trained to give a concert.
Bow instrument Violin and Sarangi
Level 1:
• Introduction to the instrument
• Bowing techniques
* Fingering the fret-less instrument to get the correct notes.
* Alankars
• Training for the co-ordination of both hands while playing
• Tuning the instrument
* simple gats
Level 2 :
• Alap and jod
• Madhyalaya and drut gats in some ragas
* Learning to play meend and gamaks.
Level 3 :
• Playing alap, jod, jhala, vilambit, madhyalaya and drut gats in various ragas.
* Playing staccato and vibrato notes
* Advanced bowing techniques.
Wind instrument Flute and Shehnai
Level 1 :
• Basic concepts
• Blowing, fingering and breath control techniques
• Alankars
* Gats
Level 2:
• Playing of some more madhyalaya and drut gats in different ragas, alap and jod
Level 3:
• Alap, jod, jhala, vilambit, madhyalaya and drut gats in various ragas and taals and some light dhuns or tunes in preparation for a concert.
Percussion instruments of Tabla and Pakhawaj
Level 1:
• Introduction to the tabla, how and from which part of the tabla (right hand drum) and dagga (left hand drum) and the pakhawaj are different sounds or bols (syllables) produced.
• Posture and fingering
• Basic sollus (dha, din tha, tin)
* playing of Teen Taal
Level 2:
• Playing different taals
• Playing parans and tukdas
* Playing relas
* Playing dugun, tigun and chaugun
Level 3:
• Accompanying vocal and instrumental recitals as well as dance concerts
* Training for solo recital
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