Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Brief note on music notation and sruthi.

We will use English for notation. We will indicate them as s r g m p d n s. The longer notes will be S R G M P D N S. Occassionally I may use subscripts (more on what this means later) such as R1, R2, g3, n2 etc.
I will use ' for the upper soctave and . for the lower octave (more about octaves later). So upper r will be r' and lower n will be n.

If you want to practise singing one of the first things you need is sruthi box. Thanks to technology we now have a software that gives sruthi. You can download it from http://www.yourtanpura.co.cc/

We will discuss more about sruthi during the class.

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