Showing posts with label Indian classical music " swar " types. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian classical music " swar " types. Show all posts

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Indian classical music " swar " types

Indian classical music is great music when you heard it carefully and perform it.

Today we will understand the types of "swar" in classical music and in music also.


 Types of "swar"

 Basically, there are three types of "swar" in Indian classical music. 
1) "Shudh swar"
2) " komal swar"
3)" Tiwra swar"

So these are the different types of swar.
 This swar are different from each other but basically, other two swar are originated from one swar which is an original note or "shudh swar" 
So the original seven notes 
" Sa re ga ma pa dha ni " called as an original note or "shudh swar".
So shudh swar is the original note 

2) "komal swar"
This swar is positioned back from original note like the note before the original "Ni" is komal "Ni". Komal swars are creating a different sound when it plays with whole notes or composition. 

3) "Tiwra swar"
This swar is positioned after the original notes like "Ma" is original note then the note after "Ma" And before "Pa" is known as komal "Ma". So notes after original notes are known to be komal swar.


Now many get doubts, is that possibility of having all swar's komal and tiwra. The answer is no 

Sudh swar is all seven notes which are original, but tiwra swar is only on one note which is "Ma" but there is no komal "Ma". Komal swar are of "re", "ga" , "dha", "ni". And " Sa", "pa" are notes which never have komal or tiwra .


The types of swar is very important to learn because when you learn to sing you write and understand what are swars or notes wheater you are performing in the instrument or vocal. once you understand and learn the basic swar sa, re, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni, sa. The singer used to learn alankaar like a student learns the alphabet and then learn to write a sentence and then a paragraph and so on.

swars are important things because swar means different frequencies which create melodious sound if we see on a scale there are 12 notes but we use only a few notes according to sweetness and melodiousness. swars are the alphabet of music if you want to sing good you have good knowledge of swars. We can get too much into perfection of swars like we tune the guitar before we start to play, same with the vocals also you have to train and use vocals to get good and melodious.


The music is about to sing perform the play and enjoy, but only if they are really melodious, learning in music is very important and swars are the main thing to learn by ears and performing with vocal for singers. there are many scopes in music like singing for many music producers and composers. Indian music knows very fine when it comes to swar because any type of music in the world comes in Hindustani classical which changes according to different beat patterns and improvisation. The komal, Shudh, Tiwra swar is very basic once you getting into it you find to jump over another swar. Murkhi and gamak are the styles of singing notes which add more feeling in listening. this type of singing style is only possible when you have perfection in the basic swars, every singer performs and likes different things in classical music or in Bollywood music so there is a thing "kanth" swar which is mostly added into singing by composer or singer. Sometimes it is an effort by singers on melody to put their own creativity and knowledge to increase the sweetness of overall songs and we get more soother feeling from it by hearing.

In the different genre of music also there is the use of these swars because in music there is only some specific swars or notes so learning music is only a single step of learning any single thing, the main thing about the genre to change some rhythm and cutout or add few notes according to style. in music, there are two ways ascending and descending means aaroh and avroh. Basically, sa, re, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni, are ascending or aaroh and avroh is like SA, ni, dha, pa, ma, ga, re, sa. it is like descending order of notes in these orders you can easily feel in listening and performing. today in 2020 there are many kinds of music are there in Bollywood itself but the main thing in Bollywood is singing so if you want to be in Bollywood music then you have to understand and able to sing many types of the genre at least have an idea of singing like Arijit Singh have an of Arabic feel which helps him to perform songs like binte dil from padmavat movie. Music is like the ocean so there are many drops of music in the ocean of music you cant learn every drop but through ears, you can get many genre knowledge. Rock genre is also a very famous genre that has an impact on Bollywood music so the style of rock music also feels good to the soul because of expressing something harsh things of lyrics.


The swar is just the alphabet of music when you get in to strike perfect notes or swar it will help and sound melodious when you arrange these swars in composition. They are just filling the perfect feel when it gets the perfect notation. Get some inspiration from your favorite artist and try to sing with the song it will improve you but remember when the combination of correct flow, in beats and notations blend then it will be a called perfect singing. If you try singing without flow it will never sound great, the practice of singing is a thing which needs concentration more than practicing hard because if you know the sound of original notes in the head you easily try to reach that note.

Best wishes for your singing career enjoy music, I will keep guiding you through my blogs if you like my blogs comment down







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