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Concepts Taught

Explore music with LMSM! Learn Hindustani, Carnatic, and Western styles. 

Carnatic Concepts

  • 35 Taalas

    • Alankaras in 35 Taalas

  • Melakartha System

    • 72 parent raga classification

  • Notation writing

  • Pentatonic scales

  • Pillari Geetalu

  • Swarajatulu, Varnalu, Kriti introduction

  • Practicing with metronome - Alankaras 3 speeds

  • Audio quiz -> decoding the swara, raga and Taalas

Western Concepts

  • Piano layout

  • Treble and Bass Clef

  • Time signature

  • Leila Fletcher Piano Book - 1

  • Major scales

  • Circle of Fifths

  • Relative minors

    • Harmonic and melodic minors

  • Chords

  • Intervals

  • Diatonic Chords

  • Modes

  • Inversions

  • Extended chords

  • Transpose

  • Ornamentation

  • Grade 1 & 2 theory paper solving and exam prep

Hindustani Concepts

  • 10 That system

  • Taals bols and compositions for:

    • Teental

    • Ektaal

    • Jhaptaal

    • Rupak

    • Dadra

    • Matt taal

  • Alaap, Jhod, Jhaala - concept

  • Ornamentation

  • How to improvise in a raga

  • How to create taans

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