Amp up Your Siddha Veena Playing Skills - Beyond Basics

Siddha Veena is a versatile musical instrument that very effectively expresses Indian classical music and contemporary music with equal aplomb. In the foundational course - you have got accustomed with the instrument and learned to play simple phrases of notes or basic structures of the Ragas. In this course, you will learn to play Ragas and other songs as listed below -

• Ragas 
  • Introducing a Raga through Aaroh (ascending order of notes), Avaroh (descending sequence of notes) and Pakad (key or catch phrase)
  • Various composition improvisation through Taan, Jhala, and tihai, etc. 
• Semi Classical Music
• Folk Music from India and other parts of the world
• Selected Bollywood songs - old and new
• Rabindrasangeet
• Nazrul Geeti
• Bhajan
• Fusion Music

P.S - The list of songs will be mutually decided between the teacher and the students. You can share a list of songs that you want to learn, but the final decision will be of the teacher after evaluating your singing abilities.

About the Teacher

Your instructor for the course, Siddha Veena Maestro Siddhartha Banerjee is an internationally renowned performing artist, composer & teacher. He is the artistic director of the Sharda Music Foundation, based in Delhi & Varanasi. He is also the creator of"Siddha Veena". He is also the founder of "Riwayat", a unique fusion band, as well as a co-founder of the international project "Magic of Strings" with Guitarist Ole Andre Frastad from Norway. Siddhartha Banerjee has also worked in a Hollywood Film "Peacock Spring" as a Child Actor, he has written a lot of renowned works under the name "Sufi Siddhartha'. He is also the recipient of several awards, some of which include the Saint Teresa Award, Honorary Doctorate from IIOH Kolkata, Saraswat Samman, Sangeet Sadhak Award, NIPA Award, and National Gold Medal. His albums have performed well in India and internationally too, some of these being: Inner Voice of Siddha Veena(India), Kashinath (Brisbane), "Siddhi" Meditation with Siddha Veena(India), Drumming Session with Siddha Veena(Queensland), Magic of String(Norway).