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Sneak preview of Fernando Perez Indian Slide Guitar course available at the WORLD MUSIC METHOD.
fernandoperezguitar.com
worldmusicmethod.com/hindustanislide
The slide guitar has been one of the most recent discoveries by Hindustani musicians. Great masters like Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt or Debashish Bhattacharya has taken the slide guitar to unthinkable realms performing classical Indian music on it.
In this course Fernando Perez explains the different guitar techniques used for the style as well as understanding Hindustani music and its Ragas and Taals.
EXPLORE A WORLD OF ANCIENT INDIAN TRADITION
The Hindustani music of northern India is one of the world’s great art forms: astonishingly rich and intellectually complex (but at the same time emotionally powerful and direct), these musical traditions are stunning to listen to and enriching to play. Developed over more than a thousand years, this ancient-yet-living music has absorbed folk traditions, religious ritual and the instruments of foreign invaders. The Hindustani slide guitar is an example of this remarkable musical blend – while the guitar is a Western instrument its origins are in the string traditions of India and Central Asia. Thus when Indian musicians embraced the guitar they didn’t simply copy Westerners, instead they adapted it to the ragas played on sitar and sarod. What they developed is one of the world’s most unique and hauntingly beautiful slide guitar styles.
Here East meets West and musical enlightenment beckons.
ELEVATE YOUR MUSICALITY
Intricate Rhythms, Exotic Melodies
The Hindustani slide guitar evokes the myriad sounds of India: from Jaipur’s temples to the holy Ganges river, played across the lap its six strings often tuned D A D D A D build a bridge between the sitar and the Delta blues slide guitar tradition. Playing a raga on the Hindustani slide guitar evokes the Indian saying that “a raga is like a person. The more time you spend with it the more you know it, but never knowing it all.” Indeed, no one can know all there is to learn about music but the courses Fernando Perez teaches on the Hindustani slide guitar will lead guitarists to new levels of insight and understanding.
Perez emphasises, the techniques taught here can be brought into all manner of slide guitar playing. While he will be teaching Hindustani slide guitar his background in Spanish, Hawaiian and blues guitar ensures that he understands how techniques and sounds can be shared and illuminate different instrumental traditions. “These ragas are ideal for musicians who like fusion – you can experiment with them beyond the strict rules of classical Indian music.”
Sneak preview of Fernando Perez Indian Slide Guitar course available at the WORLD MUSIC METHOD.
fernandoperezguitar.com
worldmusicmethod.com/hindustanislide
The slide guitar has been one of the most recent discoveries by Hindustani musicians. Great masters like Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt or Debashish Bhattacharya has taken the slide guitar to unthinkable realms performing classical Indian music on it.
In this course Fernando Perez explains the different guitar techniques used for the style as well as understanding Hindustani music and its Ragas and Taals.
EXPLORE A WORLD OF ANCIENT INDIAN TRADITION
The Hindustani music of northern India is one of the world’s great art forms: astonishingly rich and intellectually complex (but at the same time emotionally powerful and direct), these musical traditions are stunning to listen to and enriching to play. Developed over more than a thousand years, this ancient-yet-living music has absorbed folk traditions, religious ritual and the instruments of foreign invaders. The Hindustani slide guitar is an example of this remarkable musical blend – while the guitar is a Western instrument its origins are in the string traditions of India and Central Asia. Thus when Indian musicians embraced the guitar they didn’t simply copy Westerners, instead they adapted it to the ragas played on sitar and sarod. What they developed is one of the world’s most unique and hauntingly beautiful slide guitar styles.
Here East meets West and musical enlightenment beckons.
ELEVATE YOUR MUSICALITY
Intricate Rhythms, Exotic Melodies
The Hindustani slide guitar evokes the myriad sounds of India: from Jaipur’s temples to the holy Ganges river, played across the lap its six strings often tuned D A D D A D build a bridge between the sitar and the Delta blues slide guitar tradition. Playing a raga on the Hindustani slide guitar evokes the Indian saying that “a raga is like a person. The more time you spend with it the more you know it, but never knowing it all.” Indeed, no one can know all there is to learn about music but the courses Fernando Perez teaches on the Hindustani slide guitar will lead guitarists to new levels of insight and understanding.
Perez emphasises, the techniques taught here can be brought into all manner of slide guitar playing. While he will be teaching Hindustani slide guitar his background in Spanish, Hawaiian and blues guitar ensures that he understands how techniques and sounds can be shared and illuminate different instrumental traditions. “These ragas are ideal for musicians who like fusion – you can experiment with them beyond the strict rules of classical Indian music.”
