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and Mouth-organ basics Lucky FOR 24 HOLES CHROMATIC AND DIATONIC MOUTH-ORGAN figure to see the larger figure

i= inhale (draw air) , e = exhale(blow air) To represent the lower pitch I used the notation "#" (i.e on the left part of mo uthorgan) ,ex dha# , ni# etc... To represent the higher pitch I used the notation "*" (i.e on the right part of mouthorgan), ex sa* , ni* etc... To represent the use of changer (or the button on the right side) of chromatic m outhorgan) ,i used the notation "ch" . for example : dha(ch)... As shown in the above figure, a 24 holes diatonic and chromatic mouth organ cons ists of three sets of SARGAM , first the Low pitch followed by the medium pitch followed by the high pitch. out of these three the Medium pitch is mostly used . It must be noted that all the tones from the mouth-otgan can not be produced by just exhaling air in the mouth-organ , but almost half of the tones are produced by inhaling the air . for example : we can produce Sa , Ga and Pa by exhaling t he air in to the mouth organ , whereas the tones Re , Ma ,Dha and Ni are produce d by inhaling the air from the mouth-organ. Before start learning to play any song in the mouth-organ you must learn to play the SARGAM ( Sa , Re ,Ga ,Ma ,Pa , Dha, Ni ,Sa).The reason i want you to learn playing it because i believe that if you are comfortable with SARGAM you can pla y any song on your own. HOW TO PLAY SARGAM As it is clear from the above figure that that medium pitch' is starting form th e 9th node which is "Sa" , so to play SARGAM you need to start from the the 9th node i.e. "Sa" . As shown int the figure that for playing tone : "Sa" - you need to blow or exhale air , for "Re" - you need to draw or inhale air , for "Ga" - you need to blow or exhale air , for "Ma" - you need to draw or inhale air , for "Pa" - you need to blow or exhale air , for "Dha" - you need to draw or inhale air , for "Ni" - you need to draw or inhale air , for So to play Sa , Re , Ga , Ma, Pa ,Dha , Ni , Sa in sequence, you need to blow an d draw air alternatively while moving left to right on the mouth organ. But ther e is a exception , it must be noted that, to play the note "Dha" you need to dra w the air and again to play "Ni" you need to draw the air. So Playing SARGAM consists of : .Sa.....Re.....Ga.....Ma.....Pa...Dha....Ni....Sa* blow draw blow draw blow draw draw blow To listen SARGAM played by me , click here

After playing this SARGAM you should also play the reverse of SARGAM in continua tion of SARGAM.. as Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa* Sa* Ni Dha Pa Ma Ga Re Sa e.....i....e....i....e.....i....i....e....e.....i....i.....e....i....e....i....e >Practise playing this SARGAM atleast 100 times . You should be so much comforta ble with this SARGAM that if someone play a note on the mouthorgan u must recogn ize which note it was. After you are comfortable with SARGAM you should proceed to learn playing your f irst song .... The first song which i learned was "Hai apna dil to aawara" , and therefore i wo nt recommend you to start with this song because that is too tough song to start with . i believe that song " dil ne dil ko pukara : kaho naa pyar hai" is the b est song to start with because it is very easy and so gives you confidence..