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What is Sargam, Short Description, Sargam, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni..., , Description, What Is Sargam? Sargam : Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa Dha, Ni, and Sa' Sargam is a way of assigning, syllables to names of the notes in a raga or a musical scale. The sargam syllables are: Sa, Re, Ga,, Ma, Pa Dha, Ni, and Sa' in the octave. It is also called a singing exercise with notes. while pressing, note of Sa, we sing Sa then Re and we say Re and so on. Sargam is also a vocal exercise in which, the notes are used. It has the dual purpose of vocalization and finger practice., Natural notes (pure or major) are called Shudh notes which are shown as S, R, G, m, P, D, N. The, notes, or swars, are Khraj/Shadj, Rekhab, Gandhar, Madhyam, Pancham, Dhaivat and Nikhad., When singing these become Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni, and sargam stands for "Sa-Re-Ga-Ma"., Only these syllables are sung, and further designations are never vocalized. When writing these, become, S, R, G, m, P, D, N. A sign of apostrophe on the right side of a letter (S') indicates the, octave higher, a sign of apostrophe on the left side of a letter ('S) indicates the octave lower. Re, Ga,, Dha, and Ni may be either shudh or komal; Ma may be either shudh or tivar and is then called tiver, Ma. Sa and Pa are immovable (once Sa is selected), Don't think there is anything that you can, practice that will have as much an impact on your playing as sargam. Take the sargam challenge., Play sargam every night for one month and then re-assess your playing skills afterward. In other, words Sargam is the collection of music notes or the swar of the scale. It has been mentioned earlier, how notes of the sargam relate to the western, scale. Practicing to play sargam in music is bit like weight training. Basic rules of weight training are, to start with simple exercises with lightweights. As you get comfortable with lightweights, you increa, se repetitions or increase the weight you are lifting. You also focus on muscle group you work on. Y, ou go to heavier and more complex exercises after you feel comfortable with the basic exercises., Sargam Practice We can learn how to play music with keyboard or harmonium but without practice, of sargam we cannot sing-along while playing harmonium or keyboard. Practice of sargam is very, important for a harmonium or keyboard singer., Raga Kalyan Sargam Every thaat is also a Raga and Raga Kalyan is derived from thaat Kalyan. The, derivative ragas out of this structure are grouped under the broad head of Kalyan Thaat. Here its, jaati is kept sapooran-sampooran for sargam practice only., Arohi: S-R-G-M-P-D-N-S’ Amrohi: S’-N-D-P-M-G-R-S, Exercise 1 (Raga Kalyan) In this exercise we will practice Raga Kalyan notes in madh saptak. Raga, kalyan is derived from thaat kalyan. In our notation system tiver notes are shown in capital letters, and with red dot. Achal (fixed) notes are also shown with capital letters but with blue dot. S Achal, R Tiver, G Tiver

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M Tiver, P Achal, D Tiver, N Tiver, Sit beside harmonium/keyboard properly as explained earlier. First you have to practice Arohi of, raga kalyan sargam, which is ascending order as (S, R, G, M, P, D, N, S'). The arohi of sargam will, be taught in ten stages. After completing ten stages of arohi you will practice amrohi, which is, descending order of a sargam as ('S, N, D, P, M, G, R, S). You have to spend five to ten minutes on, each stage for practice. Our practice of arohi and amrohi will be in madh or middle saptak. Below, given diagram is showing raga kalyan notes in all three saptak. Raga kalyan is the best raga to start, with. Raga kalyan notes are shown in all three saptak with finger numbers., Thaat Kalyan notes shown in all three octaves