Hi Guys, It has been a long long time. Today, I am here to deliver a very happy special message to all the Bansuri enthusiasts. We have got an application on Google play store that teaches step by step how to play the Bansuri. Yes, it is paid. It has tremendous effort being put in with great video content. It deserves to be not free. Although I have played & practiced the basics long before, still, I have purchased the basic module of the app to start learning from the scratch. My Guruji is none other than Shri Vivek Sonar Ji. He is one of the foremost disciples of the Grand Master of Bansuri and the God of students like us Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia Ji. The name of the application is: myGurukul. For the benefit of all, I am providing the link to the application below. Please check and start learning. It is really a great tool. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mygurukul.co&hl=en Thanks for viewing. Let's all make the world even more musi...
Summers are picking up here in India, and so is the heat. You do not feel to do much now in this season. You just want to lay around, being lazy. Well, hopefully, my previous posts have been useful to aspiring flautists like myself. Today, I shall share with you how to produce the notes. One of the most important lessons as far as any musical art is considered. What is an octave??? This word is commonly used in the western music. We use the word Saptak in India. So what is a Saptak after all?? A Saptak can be defined as a set of all succeeding notes starting from Sa. Hence, none of the notes are repeated in a Saptak. There are three main octaves(Saptak). Mandra Saptak ( Lower Octave) Madhya Saptak (Middle Octave) Taar Saptak (Higher Octave). Uptil what notes and octave a performer is able to perform is known as his range. For Hindustani Sangeet vocalists, the range is around 3 to 3.5 octaves. For instrumentalists, this range is dependent on the instrument. Bansuri has a ...