Chapter 5 – Transposing Music

Review: In this chapter, we’ll be talking about transposing music, but if you haven’t been following the previous chapters, you might as well not be here. It won’t make much sense to you if you’re not following specific guided tours of our HCM Learning Series Chapters. But if you have been following, you should be […]

Chapter 4 – Go Further, Learn Raag

Post Introductions: Now that we have gone through Chapters 1, 2, and 3 together; I think we’re ready to Go Further, Learn Raag. In the last Chapter, we were introduced to our first Raag. I selected Raag Aiman for you to learn because it’s a very full Raag with all seven Sur, and easy to […]

Chapter 3 – Introduction to Raag

Introduction to Raag: We are picking up our discussion from the previous chapter 2. So if you haven’t read Chapters 1 and 2, I highly advise you to do so and understand the fundamental concepts that lead us here to Chapter 3 – Introduction to Raag. Since you now fully understand the concepts of Sur, […]

Chapter 2 – Types of Sur

As always, before we dabble into Types of Sur, we now continue our discussion from where we left off in Chapter 1. To re-iterate, in Chapter 1 we covered: Intro: It explained why I wrote this guide in the first place. And what I hope for you to accomplish. : Which explained a bit about […]

Chapter 1 – Sur, Sargam, and Saptak

My Intro Before I get into Sur, Sargam and Saptak, I like to share something with you, the reader. Back when I was learning HCM, I was just 15 or 16 years, living in the USA in the year 1995. Not only did I not know anyone who could teach me HCM, but I couldn’t […]