Introduction to Sitar by Harihar Rao

Description

From the realm of Indian classical music, the sitar has suddenly found itself as the “in” instrument of the popular music of the Western World. The primary purpose of this publication is to provide a working knowledge of the sitar, to those people who wish to acquire the basic skills in tuning, holding, fingering, and plucking techniques, as well as general care of the instrument even if they do not intend to use it to play Indian music. Therefore, with the exception of elementary scales and exercise, this publication does not contain any instruction on elements of the classical music of India or its terminology. The methods described in this publication can progressively be adapted to more advanced techniques of the instrument.