Hindustani Voice Training Exercises: Part 1

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If you talk, you can sing. You just need to train your voice and you need to listen very carefully. I am going to give you some basic exercises called sargam and pulta that will give you a training to make your voice more flexible to be able to find the notes and move around. We are dealing with the notes in the scale of Indian music called sa, re, ga, ma, pa , dha, sa and I am going to be singing these notes in different combinations and then I am going to repeat what I have sung with just a _____, which is called ____ which is what my girls have taught me to practice and teach vocal music. We have many scales because there are many ragas so I am going to first demonstrate a major scale, the level, then a quite minor scale and then a pentatonic. I keep saying scale but I really mean the scale ____. So the major scale. I want to say about the voice production we are trying to get like a chest voice with the breathing coming from your stomach rather than a head voice like in Western music people strive for. You need to try to make no difference between the voice production, the sound of your voice between the high notes and the lower notes. So you shouldn't...Don't sing _____. Sing with an open throat as much as possible. Don't force it out but have it relaxed but open ____.

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