Hal Leonard Sitar Method, Book and Online Access

The Hal Leonard Sitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the sitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide serves as an introduction to sitar and its technique, as well as the practice, theory, and history of raga music. This deluxe edition includes 42 online audio tracks for demonstration and play-along, plus over two hours of online video lessons.

Lessons include:

• choosing an instrument
• tuning; postures
• right- and left-hand technique
• Indian notation; raga forms
• melodic patterns
• bending strings
• hammer-ons
• pull-offs, and slides
• Tabla and Tanpura practice tracks
• changing strings
• and much more!