5 ways to make your Guitar sound more Indian - Sitar concepts
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George Harrison is proud of you
😆 I hope he is smiling down on me. I was a Beatles fan before anything else. ❤
Is it just me or does he look a bit like George too?
@@lucianhartt3123 hahaha just a little
@@lucianhartt3123 Ha ha people have said that yes
Check out Shakti with John McLaughlin.
Mind blowing raga guitar.
Ravi Shankar is watching you from the heavens
Thank you what a lovely comment. Everything changed for me after I heard Ravi Shankar and consequently began studying Indian music. ❤
Unlikely. Ravi has probably been reincarnated by now - perhaps as a tonewood tree.
I remember my forlorn love for Indian Classical music.❤️
Thanks for watching 🙏❤🙏
Really interesting this, thanks. Love the tuning, completely new to me.
Hello there glad you found it interesting
Wow thank you for this!
I've been playing pentatonics and harmonic minor for years but have been trying to open up my playing to some different ideas so this is very helpful.
Hi David I am glad to hear that was helpful. Wishing you all the best with your guitar playing
Impressive adaptation of Indian classical music on the guitar! Thank you 🙏
My pleasure 😊
I was really looking something like this... Even though being a classical vocalist, I was always fascinated and wanted to play the Indian licks and taans on a Guitar... Thank you so much for amazing tips 🙏🏻🎵😊 Really helped a lot... :)
Thanks for watching. A few of my guitar students started as Classical vocalists. It really gives you a great foundation to then approach any instrument 😀
Brilliant. Thank you.
You are welcome
Man. This is a great breakdown. Thank you for making this.. I took a Sitar course five years ago and the continuity of playing on a single string with minimal lifting of the finger has stuck with me to this day. I haven’t thought to throw in the chikari strings though. That’s a great idea * I really like you hammer on-slide-bend lick too
Hello thank you for watching and commenting. Interesting to hear you have had the similar experience with the sitar influencing your guitar playing. Best of luck with your music 🙏🎸❤
@@JackJenningsGuitarist what are chichari strings
Fabulous, loved the video and the techniques. As a sitar player, I'm amazed by how well you have dissected the various aspects of the Indian music, which I've taken for granted.
Glad you enjoyed it! I guess I've had to think about these thing more to transfer them to guitar. Thanks for watching
Welcome to my feed Jack. So glad that CZcams sent you my way. Your video has come at a good time. You could be the Justin Sandercoe of Indian guitar on CZcams. I’m predicting Raga guitar is the next frontier of guitar. Hey, but what do I know?
Thanks very much for watching. I'm glad that you you have a positive vision about the future of Indian music and the guitar.
Very interesting! I love the chikari string idea.
Yes it's been a massive shift for me and I would highly recommend it 😀thanks for watching and commenting
Outstanding information thoughtfully presented. Thanks.
Really appreciate your support 🙏
This was great - thank you! Very helpful and interesting,
You're welcome glad you enjoyed it
Gotta say, this is pure gold!
Thanks a lot
Just love u'r playing 😍😍😍
I want to follow u'r style. Love u so much
Thanks for watching and commenting. There is much more to come in this style for sure.
Wonderful instructive video !
Thank you 🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Great stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video. Sounds awesome. Thanks.
Thank you 😊
Awesome style! Would love to see you explore this style with a 7 or 8 string as potential drones to complement your playing. I image you’d sound lovely on a 12 string as well.
Been looking to learn more Indian style on guitar so will have to frequent your tutorials! 🙏
Maybe one day I'll try that yeah
Great!Just found this and am very impressed!Really informative and your playing style is incredible! I have a sitar but am tired of 'tying-frets' all the time!HA!🥂
Yes I know tying frets is really difficult. Thanks for watching
Awesome tips. Sounds amazing how you play the guitar in Indian style. Great video. Thanks for sharing. Wishing you a blessed day. Full watch, big thumbs up and subscribed 🙂
Thanks a ton
Fantastic! thank you!!
Your welcome
great stuff, good job, inspiring, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
thanks for this. i was already drawn to single string melodies and slides. i will try adding some of the ornaments as well.
Fantastic idea likes it. Ornamentations really are the essence of this music🎸🙌🙏✨️🎶
This is gold!
Thank you very much
Fantastic! OMG!
Thank you! Cheers!
Dude, very good.
Thanks 😊
Nice !! It's realy different tonal quality and it sustainable sound👍
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it 😀
Sashtang namaskar to you sir thanks for making things so clear in English.
You are welcome 😊
O.M. Shiva ! I Can Hradly Believe My Ears, Eyes Seeing you do this on a Strat. My Fav Git - tar.
Thank You Brother ! ✨️✨️✨️🎶🕺🏼💖🔮🙂 Namaste
Thank you so much 😀
thanks for sharing this!
My pleasure!
I just watched a doc called The Cobra Gypsies. Afterwards I'm like how can I use these musical influences on my guitar....along comes this suggestion! Ace stuff :)
That's great glad it found you at a good moment.
That's the music channel I've been looking for!
Thanks very much glad you found it 😀
Really lucid discussion. Thanks.
You're welcome thanks for watching 🙏
You are an exceptional teacher
Thank you that is very kind :)
Excellent. Sir.
Many thanks
This is super! Ty 🙏🏼🎶👍🏼
Thank you 😊
Thank you for the this ❣️
Your welcome 🙏
Great Bro
Thank you so much 😀
I use I Tabla pro, it has all the Tabla taals and great Tanpura sounds.
I knew George. He developed his indian style greatly towards the end of his short life. Playing on a tiny fender guitar some very fast lines can be heard on his posthumous album. I actually played or tried to play the sitar on within you and without you. George got the giggles watching me struggle to hold it.
That is so cool that you got to play sitar for an actual Beatle
very inspiring - thanks!
You're welcome thanks for watching
I just found this and have been into sitar music since I was quite young. I used to use a lot of open tunings and figured out a playstyle that sort of worked, but not quite. I've owned an actual sitar but it was a bit much with the moving frets and so many strings. I had a Ravish Sitar pedal and it just didn't have the resonance. I got a Danelectro Baby Sitar and the bridge is near impossible to get all the strings sounding right. This idea of using chikari strings on the guitar is a revelation for me. Going to set up a guitar like that. Thank you!
Yes the chikari strings are a game changer and so simple to do. I also don't like the Ravish sitar pedal or Danelectro Baby Sitar. I standard guitar treated the right way does a better job I feel.
EYB Guitar, in Germany, has a cool sitar bridge for strat or bridge post guitars. I just got one, may be a while before I can install. It seems to be of high quality, and the vids sound good. It is based on adjustable flat saddles to create buzz.
After watching I came to know he is not George Harrison
This George Harrison thing is coming up quite often now. It's very amusing :)
As much as I like blues, I have overdosed on it recently and looking for something a bit different. Great video and I’ll check your channel out.Thanks.
Thanks very much it's always refreshing to try different style sometimes
This is fantastic
Thank you sir
This is so beautiful
Glad you found it so
Super video!
Thank you very much!
😄😃 Beautiful ...very beautiful 😃💕🇮🇳
Thank you so much 😀
Great
Well done.
Thanks
Waw.. very nice playing..
Thank you 🙏
Superb
Thank you 😊
Interesting video!
Thanks!
This is very useful - Ill check out the courses!
Cheers Ivon, I hope you find the other videos useful too.
@@JackJenningsGuitarist can I purchase the course videos one by one??
@@ivonsmith4255 Yes you can all the courses are on this page avalible for individual purchase🎸
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Amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
@@JackJenningsGuitarist Have you listened to Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhat - his Indian Guitar?
Wow
I can hybrid pick off the high e to mimic the chichary some. Your concepts certainly help
Hello yes I've tried that a bit and one or two others use that approach. But I think replacing the two low strings get a much richer sound and you can play with much more freedom. Using the top string as a single chikari will always be a bit limited, but may get some interesting results with experimentation.
Hey man! Great video...
I am a student of Indian classical music and also play guitar.
This is a great video, cool techniques to make your guitar sound like Sitar. But what will really help someone to play guitar sound more like Indian instrument is some basic knowledge of how Indian scales work.
For example, Indian classical music has different scale (ragas) and every scale has a particular movement of notes or musical phrases and dominant landing notes. Also some notes are not meant to be played in a scale. If people can learn couple of Indian scales, it will be very easy for them to grasp what is happening with other scales.
Otherwise it's just Western music playing on Sitar.
But I don't want to take any credit away form your work here. It is a great video and hardly I have heard anyone on guitar which is sounding so close to Sitar.
Yes exactly that is why I have made several courses going into great detail about all the key aspects of Indian Classical music such as raags, compositions, playing with tabla, structure of a recital etc. There is much more information on my website www.playleadguitar.net or just on my youtube channel home page.
Thank you for watching and commenting this video.
..decco..sarre lesson raga based ,alankar ,jor,taan,s..all covered.
You are suggesting he does something he has already done .
Interesting! Thanks for all your content explaining these techniques. It's quite niche but for people like me who have an interest in Indian classical music and only have access to a guitar it really opens up some fun things to experiment with!
One question - what are your thoughts in playing this technique with a slide? They make slide rings now (e.g. Black Mountain ring slide) that you can use on only one string while keeping your other fingers free. It might have a nice effect on the sound not hearing the frets with this technique?
Thank you very much, I've never really taken to slide but I have seen some players get great results in this kind of music. I chose to focus on bending more taking inspiration from the sitar directly. I have played alot with Manish Pingle with is one the greatest Slide guitarists of India, you might like him I expect. He plays Mohan Veena like a lap slide type of guitar.
at first i was really skeptical. from fifth minute onwards i was struck in awe... good work jennings.
his name is Jack..
Thank you @srinivasanjeya glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for the lesson man.
You're welcome
Since you've responded, I've a question, can I play like this on acoustic guitar?
To some extent yes. I've made this video to answer that czcams.com/video/u39WsUSdTAY/video.html 😀🎸👍
Thnx
Welcome
Hey.. This is super awesome I play most of Indian film songs using single string and I found it sounds much better since the tone sustained along the scales..
Are you advicing shikari strings on high E and D alone and leave the rest as it is?
It is essentially standard tuning but the low E and A have been swapped for high strings like the chikari strings like on a sitar.
Thanks for watching.
NIce!!!!!
Very interesting.
How about tuning all strings into d?
I've got sitting bulls head on Mt guitar that does the trick
Top lad. Where did you learn your Indian music knowledge?
Thanks for watching and for asking this question. I've had several teachers and colleagues over the years who have helped me piece things together bit by bit. In the last few years I've had alot of guidance from Roopa Panesar and Shakir Khan both sitar players. I speak about it in this recent video czcams.com/video/p93Vqhuvo94/video.html
It was so much useful❤❤. Just one thing to know, how to get this tone in the guitar. I'm trying it so much with the processor but no help.
In this video I remember I was just going direct into the amp.
But the two extra high strings are in unison so they sound like they have some chorus but that is just a natural effect.
In other videos and performances I'm only using reverb, a little compression and a tiny bit of boost just to add some body and sustain to the notes.
But this guitar has a special character that makes a difference I feel.
Check out this pedal demo if you are interested.
czcams.com/video/_H8ualji5qY/video.html
this is so cool. would this put any weird pressure on the neck long term?
Not at all because they are thinner strings with less tension
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can you present a video with details on how did you manipulate the springs and strings it could help several people out there.
Check out this video about getting a basic guitar and set up to use. czcams.com/video/iBRd1rJqH5U/video.html
You could also get an Electro-Harmix Ravish Sitar pedal emulator.
I always wanted to a sitar sound to play the second section of Close to the Edge by YES. Howe started with a guitar sitar then later started using Line 6 emulation.
Fabulous! How are you getting the low hum sound in the background?
Hi there glad you like the video. That's just a tampura drone in the background that I've done in the video editor.
Please will you play charukesi raga on a peddle steel guitar
thanks for the vid - cheers matey . pedals?
Hello. There where no pedals used on this video. But I do use pedals just to boost the clean sound and add some depth. Detailed video about that here czcams.com/video/_H8ualji5qY/video.html
Thanks for ur prompt reply.plz help me how to get the chikari string of ur specified guage
You can order single strings from a lot of websites. This is a UK one that might deliver to India. Otherwise look for an equivalent product that can deliver to your address.
www.andertons.co.uk/ernie-ball-single-plain-string-8-eb1008?gclid=CjwKCAjwiMj2BRBFEiwAYfTbCmYk4C8knoynme_6b6lScFKtv75-zIyD79Z-J3DErPQA1Qr8RcnF4xoC1WAQAvD_BwE
Thanks for the video ... what guitar effect/pedal are you using when you play raga on guitar ?
Hello in this video I was not using any pedals. But I have made a video in the past about the set up I use when I do a recital or other videos.
Great informative production, I play a lot of traditional folk music blended with Indian sitar, may I ask what do you recommend for a single guitar/sitar performer and recording to get programmable tabla and tanpura for accompaniment? I have looked at the Raagini boxes but hard to find reliable suppliers, also used an phone/ tablet app called 'Rhythm with Tabla on Android which is moderately ok on a line in, but feel a proper box/pedal is better. Any ideas? Also what is your opinion on the Ravish sitar pedal by Electro-Harmonix? Liked and subbed.
Use Logic or Ableton and get a midi controller that you can put on side stage to play your tracks
Hello Philip sorry for the late reply. I just use an app called 'taal mala' on android. Others with an iphone use 'i tabla pro'. I don't think any pedal or box will do a better job. Also not sure about using anything more sophisticated with a midi controller but I imagine it could work well if you know what you doing.
As for the Ravish Sitar pedal I find it a bit gimmicky but have not tried it personally.
Thanks for watching and subscribing. Best of luck with your music.
Hmm pretty good
I tried
Thank you! Can you tell me one old tradional indian song (with lyrics), which is well known in India, (not religous) and it is not difficult to play?
Hi Gary, awesome playing and thanks for sharing your knowledge. I know you said 8 gauge for the shakair strings but was just wondering do you you light strings or medium for the others? Thanks again
It is essentially standard tuning but the low E and A have been swapped for high strings like the chikari strings like on a sitar.
6th D - 8.
5th D - 8.
4th D - 28.
3rd G - 18.
2nd B - 14.
1st E - 11
The top 4 strings are from an 11 set. You could use 10 set gauges. But I find that the G-string works much better for bending if it's a thicker string. It actually allows you to get more pitch range before you run out of bending space on the fretboard. If you don't have the chikari strings then just 'drop D' tuning (DADGBE) will work to give you a drone. But you won't be able to play the chikari patterns
Hi! This is amazing. I have a question, do we need to tune 5-6 strings in D if we are improvising in D scale or should I tune the chikari strings in different note?
Yes tune to drop D or DDDGBE with the high strings replacing the low 2.
Very interesting and informative, I do have 2 questions as I'm about to record a guitar solo in the key of G with an Indian flavour. 1 Should I have the 2 top strings tuned in D or G? 2 Is it possible to create that drone effect by using normal pedal boxes or do I need to get the Electro-Harmonix Ravish Sitar box? Thanks
Hi sorry it's taking a while to reply to this.
If your you're playing in the key of G then D will sound fine on the Chikari strings because that is the fifth note in the key of G. This is actually how we end up playing some raags with Ma in the drone. Like Malkauns and Bageshree.
Essentially the relationship between in G as the tonic and D, is Sa and Pa just like you'd have in the drone.
You don't really have the option of of tuning them to G because they would be very tight and might stand out too much. Because the extra tension on the string makes them a bit louder and boulder sounding.
To create the drone sound is actually a tampura app on the phone. You might be able to find a sample sometimes from different website to download but an app is fine.
I've never used the ravish sitar pedal I think it sounds a bit too gimmicky to be honest.
You might like to know that in this video I'm just going to wrecked into the amp with no pedals.
If you're interested more in what kind of pedals I do use to enrich the sound you could watch this video.
czcams.com/video/_H8ualji5qY/video.html
@@JackJenningsGuitarist Hello, Thanks a lot. I realized also that the note D is also in the key of G but it was good to get that clarified from you. Think I will skip that pedal then and check out what you are using.
Guru, you are not from this world! I was mismirized listening to your style of playing. Will visit more often. I don't play any instryment but love to listen to classical music. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you glad you enjoy classical music
cool
Cool
Great tips. Is the overall tuning (other than the top 2 d strings) drop down D?
Yes, it is!
This is so much awesome ..please upload more vedios .
Do you use any pedals or processors to have that particular tone and sustain ?
Yes more on the way next week. Do you play guitar too? Indian Classical style?
I use a few pedals to get this tone. I will make a tone video in the next week or two and I'll comment about here for you.
@@JackJenningsGuitarist I am from India
Yes I do play guitar . But I have no idea about Indian classical music .Recently I got interested and stumbled upon your channel.. It's very helpful.. Thank you
That's great I'm glad you are enjoying it.
As requested I have just made a video about tone for Indian Classical guitar and the gear I use for this.
czcams.com/video/_H8ualji5qY/video.html
do I hear Friend of the Devil at like 00:11 ?? Awesome stuff
Jack can u show me how to use Indian ragas/dissonant with meshuggah type metal...that's my direction....and i play bass
Hi and thanks for your comment. To start with have you learnt altered modal scales? Have a look at melodic and harmonic minor mode families.
To learn raags it's more about the ascending and descending structures and phrasing concepts within these scales.
But I think just learning the altered scales will be enough for you to start applying them to that kind of music.
I AM INDIAN, FROM INDIA.
Sir, please, What is different between guitar processor and guitar synthesizer? Have you used guitar processor or guitar synthesizer?
Please create special vedio.
I've never used one and I don't know much about them. But I understand that they use the frequency vibration of each string and reproduce that as a pitch or collection of pitches. Then it is projected and heard through the simulated voice or tone that you have selected with the synthesizer.
Thank you so much for this video. Can you tell me where I can find tanpura drone plugins for DAW?
I appreciate it!
Hello and thank you for watching. I don't know of any plug in. I just use a professionally recorded WAV file in the video editing program. I always play in D for India music so that's really all I need. If I do need different a key I use an app on the phone and just record it via direct line. Sorry I'm just a fairly single minded musician and can't help with much else than that. 😀
@@JackJenningsGuitarist It's more than enough sir! Thanks a lot for all the content you make
Huh, I’ve been thinking about trying that type of string setup for a more sitar sound. But I was thinking of using a double neck for sympathetic strings and adding something near the bridge to make it buzz. I was even thinking about adding an 7th string in course to the six string neck to make it even more like a sitar.
Yeah that sounds like fun
@@JackJenningsGuitarist How would you tune the 12 string neck? I’d ideally like the 12 string neck to still be playable on its own. I was thinking of tuning it as EADGCF (all 4th tuning) and then tuning the course strings to BEADGC (all 4th a 5th lower harmony). That way it has every diatonic note at least once for the resonance.
Namaste, Please can you teach the intro that you played here?
Hello there in order to learn that you have to take one of my courses, there's a few different technical considerations involved play that. Have a look at www.indianclassicalguitar.com please feel free to ask any further questions.🎸😊🙏
Listen to Paint it black riff by rolling stones = Indian style
Sir how to tune to sitar sound in acoustic guitar
Namasthe,Amazing 🌹❤️🙏.Namasthe.
Thank you for watching 🙏
Sir how can we change the tuning of those chikari strings if we want to play on a different key?
Yes you can tune them how you want. I think down to C and up as far as F would sound ok for that string gauge
Is this mod best on a strat or is that just happened to be what you used?
It works fine on any tremelo system but I recommend strats most of all of this style because it's possible to blend well with other Indian instruments and create a slightly more transparent natural tone.