The fundamental building blocks of learning would probably be - as the teachers call it ;-) "Getting the basics right". So this post would just be about the basics of music. Being a neophyte myself, we'll try to keep this as simple and accurate as possible and these posts would help us all.
Music is build by the various combinations of notes. The western notations being C D E F G A B C and Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do. These are no different from the ones back home. As they say - A note by any other name would sound as sweet. Indian classical music divides the octave into 12 semitones of which the 7 basic notes are Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni. These 7 semitones do have proper names.
Sa - Shadaj
Re - Rishab
Ga - Gandhar
Ma - Madhyam
Pa - Pancham
Dha - Dhaivat
Ni - Nishad
In Indian classical music, the equivalent of scales are "Ragas" which are fixed sequences of a minimum of five notes arranged in ascending and descending order. But unlike the western scales, the ascending and descending notes are not always identical, but we'll come back to that in a later post. Some methods of writing music that are usually shown in cartoons, contain 5 lines and a whole bunch of dots and squiggly lines. That is called "Staff Notation". Its a very precise form of representing music.
This is just a start and I hope this small introduction gives an idea about the basics. It's not rocket science guys it's just music..the way I see it!
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