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3 Advanced Chord and Chord Symbol usage – Jazz, Melodic minor, freedom and...
Jazz and melodic minor All the chords we will look at in this article are taken from the melodic minor harmony. Modern jazz uses melodic minor and its chords a lot. This article introduces you to three...
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Raaga Hamsadhwani – Chords and progressions for one small phrase
Click on the play button (top left) to listen to the phrase. Raaga Hamsadhwani Phrase Example |G , , , G , , R | SRG , , , , R| NRNR G , , R| NRNP Each alphabet and comma is of a sixteenth note...
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13 Western chords written using Indian music notation
We can talk about chords in terms of Indian notation, especially when talking about chords for ragas. Talk about major seventh note as the big Ni or the N3, and the major seventh chord spelling as S,...
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How to play chords for Indian ragas – Chords from specific scale notes
We will use the second mode of melodic minor as an example exercise in finding chords from the scale notes for two reasons: The second mode of the melodic minor has a flat nine interval in it, which is...
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How to play chords for Indian Raaga Kalyani by using modes
Kalyani is a prominently used raga in Indian music. Here we have a look at how to connect it with familiar western scales and harmonize Raga Kalyani using the relationships it has with the major scale...
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Chords of Raaga Kalyani – the one note difference with the major scale
In part I, we found the chords for Raga Kalyani using the relationship between the modes of the major scale. Lydian scale has the same notes of Kalyani. In this article, we see how to use the one note...
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Chords for Raga Mayamalavagowla
Past articles have discussed using exact chords and nearest triad for a raga, deriving chords for ragas from the raga notes and understanding raga mayamalavagowla. Many of us prefer to use simple three...
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How to play chords for raga kalyani, kharaharapriya – the one note difference
Chords of Raga Kalyani The one note difference between natural minor scale and Raga Kharaharapriya (image made using the Raga app) Chords can be found for Raga Kalyani, in two ways: as a mode of the...
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Using chords of the major scale to play chords for other ragas by comparison
Remembering just one set of chords – the chords of the major scale – can help us play chords for a lot many number of ragas by comparing the new raga with the major scale. Let us take for example, the...
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Chords for Malahari geetams using simple minor and major chords only
We have already discussed Mayamalavagowla with the G root, and about finding major and minor chords for the raga. Below we use Mayamalavagowla with D root as an example of finding simple major and...
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Raga Marwa, Pooriya, Sohani – the Marwa connection – Lydian ♭9
How to find chords for any Raga or Scale or Phrase Any raga, scale or phrase has a group of notes. Choosing from within the notes gives us chords. Below is an example using the Hindustani ragas Marwa,...
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Raga Bhopali – Chords for Indian Classical Hindustani Raga
Rag Bhopali, also known as Bhoop, Bhoopali or Bhupali, is a Hindustani classical raga, is a pentatonic scale (uses 5 notes in ascending and descending scale) with the same notes as the major pentatonic...
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How to play simple chords from the melody notes – explained using Raga...
The Western scale equivalent of Raga Mayamalavagowla is the double harmonic major scale. Notes of the Mayamalawagowla scale when C is the root: C Db E F G Ab B Finding basic chords for ragas scales...
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Chords for Raga Bhairav – Melody chord images
Raga bhairav-aroh chords (‘N S G M P G M, P G M (N)d, G M (N)d, (N)d N S’) The full article with explanations, at Chords for Raga Bhairav and related Ragas Raga Bhairav Avarohana: N S’ (N)d N d P, P G...
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Chords for Raga Bhairav and related Ragas – Chords for Hindustani Indian...
Detailed, organized Chords for Indian ragas at Raga Chord Resources Raga Bhairav Raaga Bhairav has the same swara or note positions as the 15th Carnatic melakarta Raaga Mayamalavagoula. Raga Bhairav...
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Learning to find chords for songs: Kadhal Rojave Rahman song re-chorded...
Based on the phrase notes, the song Kathal Rojave by a r rahman from the movie Roja has been harmonized as below. (how to play the song?) Instead of following a generic family of chords based of...
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Find your own chords: Ethetho (Punnagaimannan) Ilayaraja beyond the usual...
The E major scale family has the C#m, G#m and B major (the Vth) chords. This song brings in the C major chord, G major chord etc into the harmony in a smooth and easy manner through the melody. Below...
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How to play chords for raga kalyani, kharaharapriya – the one note difference
Chords of Raga Kalyani The one note difference between natural minor scale and Raga Kharaharapriya (image made using the Raga app) Chords can be found for Raga Kalyani, in two ways: as a mode of the...
View ArticleUsing chords of the major scale to play chords for other ragas by comparison
Remembering just one set of chords – the chords of the major scale – can help us play chords for a lot many number of ragas by comparing the new raga with the major scale. Let us take for example, the...
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Chords for Malahari geetams using simple minor and major chords only
We have already discussed Mayamalavagowla with the G root, and about finding major and minor chords for the raga. Below we use Mayamalavagowla with D root as an example of finding simple major and...
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