Hal Leonard Sitar Method (book/Audio & DVD Online)

Hal Leonard Publications
Format: Softcover Media Online

The "Hal Leonard Sitar Method" is designed for anyone just learning to play the sitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide serves as an introduction to sitar and its technique, as well as the practice, theory, and history of raga music.

This deluxe edition includes 42 audio tracks for demonstration and play-along, plus over two hours of video lessons.

Lessons include:
choosing an instrument; tuning; postures; right- and left-hand technique; Indian notation; raga forms; melodic patterns; bending strings; hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides; Tabla and Tanpura practice tracks; changing strings; and much more.

Video Online

• Learning the Sitar
• Hal Leonard Sitar Method
• World Guitar
• Guitar Explorer