" Alankar "for beginner to practice -Indian classical music

hello everyone, today i will tell you about some alankars. Basically the alankars are about beignning process which get continue becuase from this process only you can get better into signing or playing. So today article is helpful for singers and instrument player also.

Alankar

Alankaar, also referred to as palta or alankaram, is a concept in indian classical music and literally means "ornaments, decoration". An alankara is any pattern of music decoration a musicuan or vocalist creates within or across tones, based on ancient musical theries or driven by personal creative choices, in a progression of swaras. The alankara is standard in carnatic music, while the same concept is referred to as palta or alankara in Hindustani music.

Importance of Alankar

In India, Alankar or Alankara means ornaments or adornments. In the context of Indian classical music, the application of an alankar is essentially to embellish or enhance the inherent beauty of the genre. The earliest reference to the term Alankar has been found in Bharata’s Natyashastra written sometime between 200 BC and 200 AD. This treatise on dramaturgy mentions 33 types of Alankars. Subsequent musical treatises like Sharangdev’s Sangeet Ratnakar in the thirteenth century and Ahobal’s Sangeet Parijat in the seventeenth century mention 63 and 68 types of Alankars respectively.

In Indian music and especially in raga sangeet, staccato or straight isolated notes are almost unheard of. In instrumental music too, with the exception of some instruments, the notes are never static either. Each note has some link with its preceding or succeeding note. It is this extra note or grace note that lays the foundation of all alankars. The shrutis or microtones that are so important in raga sangeet demand this ‘mobile’ nature of the swaras in Indian music.

In the Shastras, a grace note has been referred to as alankarik swar. When a group or cluster of notes embellishes another swar, they form the alankarik pad. The alankars in practice today and those that have been earmarked for this page include both types.

The alankars in common use today comprise Meend (varieties of glides linking two or more notes), Kan (grace note), Sparsh and Krintan (both dealing with grace notes - especially as applied in plucked stringed instruments), Andolan (a slow oscillation between adjacent notes and shrutis), Gamak (heavy forceful oscillations between adjacent and distant notes), Kampit (an oscillation or a vibrato on a single note), Gitkari or Khatka (cluster of notes embellishing a single note), Zamzama (addition of notes, with sharp gamaks) and Murki (a swift and subtle taan-like movement).

A word of caution from our gurus, however : the definitions provided are widely accepted but not sacrosanct. Interpretations other than the ones given may also exist and like so much else in Raga Sangeet, definitions and illustrations may also vary from gharana to gharana. Alankars other than the ones featured may exist - we have selected those that are unique and comprehensible and commonly used by practicing musicians. And finally, our gurus advise that many of these alankars are raga and form-specific (to a khayal, thumri, instrumental music etc.) and their wrong or excessive application may mar an entire rendition or performance.

Various alankars

• I will tell you some important alankarkaars for beginner to practice.

1)     सा रे गा म प ध नी स |

                                         सा नि  ध प म गा रे सा |

2)     सा रे स रे ग, रे ग रे ग म, ग म ग म प, म प म प ध , प ध प ध नी, ध नी ध नी सां |
                                           सां नी सां नी ध, नी ध नी ध प, ध प ध प म, प म प म ग, म ग म ग रे, ग रे ग रे सा | 

3)    सा प, रे ध, ग नी, म सां,|
                                           सां म, नी ग, ध रे, प सा |

4)     सा रे ग, रे ग म, ग म प, म प ध,प ध नी, ध नी सां |
                                                                                 सां नी ध, नी ध प, ध प म, प म ग, म ग रे, ग रे सा |

5)     सा रे, सा रे ग म, रे ग, रे ग म प, ग म, ग म प ध,म प, म प ध नी, प ध, प ध नी सां | 

                                      सां नी, सां नी ध प, नी ध, नी ध प म, ध प, ध प म ग, प म , प म ग रे, म ग, म ग रे सा | 

This are some few alankar which you can practice, only remember commas which is very important.

• In music without alankaar you can't make your notes better and if your alankaar is better than when you sing any song it will sound better and you will understand better if you learnt the wave of any alankaar the whole song is made up of many alankaars. Keep practice it will help you to grow everytime.
• Music is about more over a practical thing because it is a performing art which you have to present theory is only a part to understand but once you read the theory its time to perform that theory which exist in the mind form of any sound.
• It never look easy when you start at first but slowly when you relax and ractice in few days some changes might be appear and things look better and curosity is the thing which people say it was already before we start but its not it come later or any specific thing what we do so wait develop interest and after than curosity will come automatically.

The factor which you might be missing is practice only the world is looking like repeating itself but its not they are practice same thing everyday to achive something better.

Alankaar is a piece of music from which music can be incomplete like an women without ornaments.moon without light.

Anybody want to sing better than now then practice these alankaar which i have written and use some keyboard, harmonium or any music instrument, pro singer use tanpura. Singers or any instrument player start with alankar. Alankar get advance on few area when we take some minor scale then the use of alankar is same but get hard if you havent practice that so keep or major scales or on all white buttons or given alankaar