Hi to all. I am a new registered on the forum. I am from the French West Indies (not much blues exposure over here), and have been an amateur musician for as long as I can remember : classical guitar & jazz sax, and gave up everything 15 years ago to study sarod in Calcutta. Last june, we had a very hot season with too many mosquitos, which made seating inside croos-legged to play my instrument very inconfortable. I picked up a marine band of mine rusting on a shelf, just to be able to make some music out in the shade. And that's it ; I'm deep into it now. I'm not sure how far I will go with my harp playing. But I mean to say THANK YOU to everyone on the forum. All the input I found here has been and is very valuable to me. Thanks to provide guidance and meaning.
@tookatooka Good find and good example of playing. As you see, it's played with the nails on the strings to produce those shiny glissandos. And that's one reason why I got hooked to the harp : It bends !
@saregapadanisa. I'm interested to know what you are aiming for with the harp. You said "it bends". Does that mean you're thinking along the lines of indian/blues fusion music? That would be a fascinating direction to go in if you are.
WOW,I learned some thing new today,thanks'Saregapadanisa. Slow hand himself would have a hard time keeping up with the Y/T video above. I think you could blend some slide blues licks into the Sarod and play 2nd position harp along with it. Wow a new genera of music, "West Indian Blues" Mike
WELCOME! Its awesome to have someone with some ethnic music roots here. Every time I hear the word sarod I can't help but think of George Harrison saying "And the master of sarod, Usted Ali Achbar Khan" haha. Concert for Bangladesh rocks! I like the whole eastern blues idea
@tookatooka For now I have no aim higher than mastering the basics. When I picked up the harp I told myself, well, for once it's going to be an easy instrument... ;-) But you are right in one thing : I think very much in term of modal music. By the way, Derek Trucks is a sarod player. You can hear it on some of his cds. And did you check that guy Harry Manx, folk-blues singer who studied indian music and plays an indian version of slide guitar... and harmonica too.
@bluesnut No fixed pitch for tuning, but regarding the relations beetween the notes the tuning of the 4 main strings would be C-G-C-F. But the music is exclusively melodic, you never play chords.
