Sitar Saturday - The Basics

Time for another #sitarsaturday

My favorite format for sitar is just a basic setup with a tabla player and the sitar doing crazy improvisation. This guy does quite a few interesting left hand picking techniques.

Here is another good jam. The sitar player is quite fast. One of the tricks they do to be able to play fast is to dip their left hand fingers in patchouli oil to get them to make the fast slides on the strings. I tried it once but my fingers started slipping off on the bends.

For concentration on programming I usually try listening to slower sitar improvisations like this. This player really concentrates on bending as many notes out of one position. This one also has a tanpura in the background to add more of a drone effect.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)