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If you want to learn about Indian music, you dont have to travel to
India. Musicians from China who arent culturally attuned to the
music of Ravel can read a piece of his music and play it because of
the unifying language of the Western notation system. Western
notation contains a lot of information that makes it universal, rather
than culturally specific, to play Western music. Similarly, the
gamaka (ornaments), talas (rhythmic cycles), and ragas (modes
and melodic formulas) of Carnatic music (the classical music of
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In example 6, you again pick on beats one and three and slide to
each of the notes in between. This effect is best achieved by
playing all of the notes on one string. When I play guitar in Carnatic
tuning (E B, E B, E B, from the highest string to the lowest), I
frequently play on one string. In standard tuning, when you play this
combination on two strings, it will present new fingering challenges.
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