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Harmonium is a keyboard, and so these lessons apply equally to the harmonium as well as
to the electronic synthesizer keyboard. The important difference is that you can - and do play the electronic keyboard with your LEFT hand also; but for harmonium, your left hand is used in pumping the bellows to force air under pressure into the inside of the harmonium. In keyboard our left hand is used for chords. An ordinary keyboard is sufficient to master all the lessons that will follow. If you already have a keyboard, you do not need to buy anything else as of now. For solo performances, you can use a synthesizer keyboard or a harmonium, depending upon your taste, convenience and availability. Harmonium traditionally suits better for accompaniment during performance of Ghazals, Thumri, Indo Pakistani classical music, and some other types of Indian music. For accompaniment to movie songs, and all varieties of songs, the synthesizer keyboard is the preferred choice. Keyboard offer a wide variety of instrument sounds. Types of keyboards are given below: Chordophones Aerophones
Accordion Harmonium Pipe organ Reed organ Pipe organ
Electrophones
Electronic keyboard Electronic piano Music workstation Synthesizer Sampler
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In a keyboard the instrument sound you choose is called a voice. Before you play a song, choose a voice that you like. Practice selecting different voices, and remember the setting for the ones you prefer. Look your keyboard owner's manual to help you. When you play the songs you can use any sound you wish. The rhythm controls provide drum beats to play along with. These rhythm beats are also called styles. The drum rhythms or kits can be changed to suit the kind of song. If you have a keyboard equipped with floppy drive or flash usb media then you may copy rhythm styles in your keyboard which can be played using user style button. Melody keys are used to play the tune by right hand. The chord keys are used to play along with the melody with your left hand. Chords make the song sound full and harmonic. If you do not know how to play chords then you may use auto chord accompaniment.
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Harmonium lessons and harmonium book in desi style with raga based songs
http://www.ragatracks.com/harmonium1.htm produced when you press a key on musical keyboard is called as NOTE. It does not matter if you press the white key or the black key. Each key plays a predefined frequency. A frequency is number of cycles per second. The note gets its shape by the amount of time you hold down the key and release it. This is called the note length or duration. Hence to make a tune or a melody or song you should play a bunch of these notes at proper duration and length.
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http://www.ragatracks.com/harmonium1.htm *In the following diagram 'S means lower octave note ( left side of middle octave) and S' means higher octave note of harmonium or keyboard ( right side of middle octave). The rule of achal, komal and tiver will apply to all three diagrams in this page.
Diagram 1
Diagram
Lower Octave or Mandar Saptak Note Numbers Middle Octave or Madh Saptak Note Numbers Higher Octave or Taar Saptak Note Numbers
'S 1 S 1 S' 1
'r 2 r 2 r' 2
'R 3 R 3 R' 3
'g 4 g 4 g' 4
'd 8 d 8 d' 8
'D 9 D 9 D' 9
Diagram 2 There may be five saptak in a keyboard. The saptak to the left of the keyboard is for playing chords and to the extreme right is one more taar saptak but with very sharp voice. We can also play melody in chords saptak but the sound of melody will show base sound. The chords saptak and extra taar saptak to the right side is not perfect for playing melody. In a complete saptak there are 12 notes which are seven white keys and five black keys. So, in a harmonium mostly there are three saptak and 36 keys but in a professional keyboard there are four to five saptak and 48-60 keys. It should be noted that in both instruments while playing songs you will usually deal with three saptak. In keyboards you will also use chords saptak which is located to the extreme left of keyboard. In keyboards or harmonium most of the songs begin from madh or middle saptak. 3 of 4
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To summarize:
Achal or Qyme Swar: These notes are notated as S and P (the swar without saathi swar) Komal or Flat Swar: These notes are notated as r, g,m, d, n & are shown in small letters. Tiver or Sharp Swar: These notes are noted as R,G,M,D,N and shown in capital letters. Achal, Komal, Tiver Swar: By combining achal, komal and tiver swar we get 12 notes of a complete saptak. S r R g G m M P d D n N Achal swar Sa and Pa are also shown in capital letters. All notes belong to madh-saptak by default and have no sign of apostrophe. Notes of Mandar saptak are preceded by ( ' ) sign of apostrophe, and notes of Taar-saptak are succeeded by ( ' ) sign apostrophe. Lastly, a comma ( , ) represents a pause between notes. It is important that you learn achal, komal and tiver system of 12 music notes of any saptak.
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