Online Sarod Classes by Debanjan Bhattacharjee

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Debanjan teaches in the ONLINE Mode (India and abroad) with an online teaching experience of 15 years.
For each student, the classes shall be individual (one-to-one), personalised, interactive and customised and thus have individual attention.
Students are classified into 3 Categories - Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
Each class shall be of 60 mins duration approx.
For compositions in each Raga, scanned copy will be provided (pdf).
In addition, Audio (mp3) played by Debanjan, may also be provided as reference for each lesson.
Students with no prior musical knowledge, willing to learn music from beginning or as continuation, are all welcome.
For Beginner / Intermediate students, Debanjan first concentrates on technical ability to play the Sarod efficiently through rigorous structured and modular practices "Haat Riwaz".
This will be done along with Note Identification, a common problem faced by many.
Debanjan teaches original and traditional compositions of Maihar Seniya Gharana and also teaches innovation in order to develop individuality.
Besides wide range of basic and common Ragas, Debanjan teaches Rare Ragas and Maihar specialities and their authentic treatment.
Besides wide variety of basic Talas, Debanjan teaches Rare Talas and also Fractional Taals.
For Advanced / Intermediate students, Improvisation techniques on Raagdari and Layakari is focussed upon, so that the students can start innovating on their own, developing their own unique style and also making their own classical compositions.
To learn online, students require basic mobile / smartphones with Whatsapp / Zoom / Skype video app installed in it.
Classes shall be monthly, with minimum of 2 and maximum of 4 classes per month.
Each class date & time shall be fixed, based on mutual convenience.
Besides conventional classical music, Debanjan also teaches his brainchild - the "Dhrupad Sarod", a style to be played with Pakhawaj only.
And YES, Debanjan also teaches Instrumental Rabindrasangeet / Tagore Songs on Sarod, in addition to authentic North Indian Classical Music.
Debanjan firmly believes that even a difficult instrument like Sarod can also be learnt online from the very beginning, with success.
Learning online has various advantages with respect to timings, with no need to travel and also learning in home comfort.
For the online monthly session, the monthly fee needs to be kindly provided in advance, through bank transfer (NEFT / IMPS / Google Pay).
Students willing to learn, may drop an email to : sarodbydebanjan@gmail.com and mention the following in the email : 1. Name, 2. Age, 3. City, 4. Whether they already have a Sarod , and 5. contact number.