Resources

  • Rāgam Radio: Rāgam radio gives you a link to a random YouTube track from a database of over 120,000: Carnatic music tracks, from a list of rāgams you select. As a beginning rasikā, this can help teach you to distinguish between two or more rāgams. Simply pick two rāgams on this website, see if you can identify the rāgams of the tracks it gives you!

  • Carnātic YouTube Collection: a comprehensive database of Carnātic music tracks on YouTube, indexed by rāgam, artist, composer, composition, and sub-genre by rasikas.org user ranjanimalavi
  • IAST: What this site uses to transliterate Saṃskṛtam into English (the weird symbols - aka diacritics - that you see)

    IAST makes it possible for the reader to read the Indic text unambiguously, exactly as if it were in the original Indic script.

  • Learning Techniques used in this article series

  • Rāga Surabhi: ārohaṇam/avarohaṇam + brief ālāpanai + pallavi to introduce each rāgam. The ālāpanai repeats the name of the rāgam, which helps learning by listening and association

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