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Playing harmonium with first black and white keys. What are harmonium finger positions and fingering. Finger positions and fingering. What is
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Note:
This
arrangement is also for keyboard in which you use your both hands but you use right hand in playing harmonium.
As mentioned earlier in Fig 1, we have assumed the first white key to be the Sa (S), for
convenience. But from now we will use black key as our first starting point for Sa (S). You will find that there are sets of 5 black keys on the keyboard. Each set of those 5 black keys is made up of 2 + 3
black keys. The first white key is that white key which lies immediately to the left of the first black key. Since there are several sets of 5 black keys, there will also be several "first white" keys. In a
saptak there are total 12 keys which consists of 5 black keys and seven white keys as mentioned below:
You are going to use only your right hand to play the harmonium/keyboard. The right hand
fingers are numbered as follows:
The
thumb is numbered
1
The index finger is 2
The middle finger is 3
The ring finger is 4
The little finger is numbered 5.
Fingers:
A
scale is the ascending and descending movements from S R G M P D N S',
and back that is, S' N D P M G R S. All the 8 notes are always
included, in that order, in a scale. This scale uses only
"black" keys, that is, natural. We will always fix our
first Sa from black key which is easier for us to learn sargam (s,r,g,m,p,d,n,s)
and easy for o playing songs. Sargam means seven notes in
ascending and descending order. For a complete sargam we also include
sa note of the next sapatk again.
Know
Your Swars
In music there are
seven notes in a Sur which are Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni
There are twelve swars in one saptak because five swars also have
their Saathi swars. Only two swars are called achal swar (fixed swars) because they do not have any
saathi swars. The Achal swars are Sa and Pa.
The
following five swars have their saathi swars
1.
Re
2.
Ga
3.
Ma
4.
Dha
5. Ni
Sa and
Pa are not included in the above mentioned five swars.
The reason is this that their saathi swars do not exist.
These swars are called achal swars.
These achal swars are
not komal nor tiver. Komal swars are written with the initial small letters and Tiver Swars are
written in capital letter
as given below:
List
of Komal Saathi Sur of
Re, Ga, Ma, Dha, Ni
Komal Swars are shown in small letters.
Komal
Re
--------- r
Komal
Ga
--------- g
Komal
Ma
---------
m
Komal
Dha
---------
d
Komal Dha --------- n
List
of Tiver Saathi Swars of
Re, Ga, Ma, Dha, Ni
Tiver Swars are shown in capital letters.
Tiver
Re
--------- R
Tiver
Ga
---------
G
Tiver
Ma
---------
M
Tiver
Dha ---------
D
Tiver
Ni
---------
N
Achal
or Qyme Swars
Achal
or Qyme Swars are also shown by capital letters.
Achal Swars --------- S and P
We can
also write the whole sargam by combining achal komal and tiver as S r
R g G m M P d D n N S.
(here S and P is called achal or qyme swars and without komal and tiver
saathi swars). When all the swars
are tiver in a Sargam then it will becomesthe Sargam of Raga Aiman or
Kalyan. Raga aiman or kalyan are same. In the Sargam of Raga
Aiman all swars will be
tiver along with Sa and Pa which are Achal Swars. These tiver and achal swars are represented here as under:-
Tiver Swars or Sharp Swars:
R,
G,
M,
D,
N
Achal S, P,
There
are total 12 notes: 5 Komal + 5 Tiver+ 2 Achal = 12
in one saptak.
This
rule will apply to all three saptak.
Here we have shown notes from three saptak, mandar, madh, taar.
Playing position from first white key
Here
ACH = Achal Swars,
TIV = Tiver Swars, KOM = Komal Swars
Here starting from first white key as our Sa the
arrangement of notes will be as mentioned below:-
Note
: The first
Sur or key attached
just after Sa is always
Komal Ray Then
Tiver Ray, Komal Ga Then Tiver Ga, Komal
Ma then Tiver Ma, Achal Pa Then
Komal Dha, Tiver Dha, Komal Ni Tiver Ni,
Then Achal Sa.
Or
we can write whole sargam as S r R g G m M P d D n N S
In the
Diagram.2 we are starting from left side and from first white key. The immediate key just
attached to Sa is r with key number 2.
With r the next immediate key just attached is R with key number 3 and with R the next key just attached is g with key number 4 and so on . . . . .The keys
attached with each other are show by numbering 1,2,3,4,5
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We can also explain in another way: After Achal Sa there will be Komal note then Tiver, and so on
. Pa is also Achal
and after Pa then there will be Komal Dha, Tiver Dha and so on
If you will
recognize komal and tiver Swars then you will be able to understand
thaat, scale, ragas and song notation which will help you play a song.
Many old and new song are composed in a particular Raga.
Saptk:
Saptak is the complete set of five komal and five tiver swars
along with two achal swar which are Sa and Pa.
So there are total twelve
swars in a complete Sargam.
Playing position from first black key
Here starting from first black key as our Sa the
arrangement of notes will be same as mentioned above:-
Note
: The first
Sur or key attached
just after Sa is always
Komal Ray Then
Tiver Ray, Komal Ga Then Tiver Ga, Komal
Ma then Tiver Ma, Achal Pa Then
Komal Dha, Tiver Dha, Komal Ni Tiver Ni,
Then Achal Sa.
Or
we can write whole sargam as S r R g G m M P d D n N S
In the Diagram above we are starting from left side and from first white key. The immediate key just
attached to Sa is r with key number 2.
With r the next immediate key just attached is R with key number 3 and with R the next key just attached is g with key number 4 and so on . . . . .The keys
attached with each other are show by numbering 1,2,3,4,5
35 and one key cannot be shown due to increased length.
Thaat
or Scales
The
set of Seven Notes or Scale which can produce a Raga is called a Thaat
in Urdu or Hindi and ragas produce melodious songs. The system of
classification for the raga in different groups is called a thaat. There are again several systems of classification of the raga.
If you want to learn keyboard or harmonium the practice of thaat is important. If you want to sing then sargam and raga practice is important. If you
learn thaat then you can learn raga and can play many songs
in keyboard or harmonium in that raga which belongs to particular thaat. Beauty in playing a song in
harmonium or keyboard appears when you use raga. One can play
song in a thaat but there
are very few songs for a particular thaat but there are many songs in ragas.
There are certain rules for these thaat . We can say scales in west and thaat is east.
1. A
Thaat must have seven notes out of the twelve notes placed in an
ascending or descending order. Both the forms of the notes can be
used.
2.
Thaat has only an Arohi.
3.
Thaats are not to be sung and are for only playing music songs but the
ragas produced from the Thaats are sung.
We can play music of song with a thaat.
4.
Thaats are named after the popular raga of that Thaat. For example
Bhairavi is a popular raga and the thaat of the raga Bhairavi is named
after the raga.
5. Out
of ten thaat
about
80 ragas are developed and performed these days. But
for a beginner 30 ragas are sufficient for perfection and
practice.
Playing harmonium with first black key and first white key. See harmonium finger positions learn fingering harmonium. Your harmonium and using correct fingers.
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