Raag Yaman Practice
I have started playing Sitar after a gap of almost two months. For various reasons, I was away from Sitar. Today I created two taans in Raag Yaman. I played a basic composition that is a classic piece in Raag Yaman. It goes something like this
G- G R G MM P D P MM R G- R
I realized that I was playing a wrong M in mandra saptak and hence corrected accordingly. Then I played all the four taans that was listed under the composition. Finally I managed to create two taans, one that starts on sum and the other that starts on the 9th matra.
I started to play a bit of Jhaala and realized that I need to practice a bit more. The jhaala part will take a bit more time as I need to get my strength back.
As things stand i can play for about 10 minutes. The following are some of the next steps that I intend to take
- Create more taans that start from 9th matra, 12th matra, 1st matra.
- Play Jhaala as it is from the composition.
- Try improvising the composition as well as the taans.
Hopefully if I spend an hour daily from now on, I should be able to play Raag Yaman for atleast 15 minutes.