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,...
View ArticleRaga Bhopali (Mohanam) – Chords for Indian Classical Hindustani Raga
Rag Bhopali, also known as Bhoop, Bhoopali or Bhupali, is a Hindustani classical raga, is a pentatonic scale (audav-jati) – uses 5 notes in ascending and descending scale – with the same notes as the...
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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...
View ArticleChords 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...
View ArticleChords 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...
View ArticleLearning 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...
View ArticleFind 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleChords 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...
View ArticleRaga 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,...
View ArticleRaga Bhopali (Mohanam) – Chords for Indian Classical Hindustani Raga
Rag Bhopali, also known as Bhoop, Bhoopali or Bhupali, is a Hindustani classical raga, is a pentatonic scale (audav-jati) – uses 5 notes in ascending and descending scale – with the same notes as the...
View ArticleHow to play simple chords from the Raga or melody notes – example 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...
View ArticleChords 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...
View ArticleChords 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...
View ArticleLearning 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...
View ArticleFind 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...
View ArticleThumbi Vaa | Kaathal Rojave | Raga and Chord Melody Thoughts
Example Phrase: G3 G3 M1 G2 R2 When D is the Sa, the phrase can be rewritten as: F# F# G F E Not sure how the swara to guitar connection works? Get the FREE foundation resource Videos to confidently...
View ArticleMalarnthum Malaratha Shivaji song Unplugged Fingerstyle Guitar Chords
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View ArticleChords 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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