Ravi Shankhar

Sitar Fusion Jams

#sitarsaturday buskers

#sitarsaturday the basics

It's time for another #sitarsaturday featuring my favorite Anoushka Shankar songs. The first song is Sinister Grains. This one has a nice mysterious vibe to it with some subtle sitar riffs and synths.

Here's some more percussion for #sitarsaturday Here's is what is known as Konnakol aka drum language. You use your hands to clap out the odd timing of the metronome then make a few different drum words

Its time for the rhythm section of #sitarsaturday First we start off with some tabla. These drums are what you usually hear accompanying a sitar. They can play super fast and the drums are tuned in tones

Sitar Metal

I know this is supposed to be a #sitarsaturday but here is something called the setar instead. Here is a trio jamming with the setar in the middle. The oud sort of acts like the bass and I love the crazy

More Sitar-Like Instruments

Sitar-Like Instruments

Here are a few of my sitar songs for #sitarsaturday This one combines a doumbek, shaker, a kalimba and my sitar on lead. My sitar has quite a bit of intricate decoration in the binding. This binding is

Here's a sitar recording where the audio from my zoom h6 messed up so I had to rely only on my camera's audio (which is bad). So I ran it through a few filters and effect to try and fix it. In the end