00:00Good morning and welcome to the channel everyone. The last video that we did was a lesson where we learned
00:08a little more about Raga and Tala and a lot of our subscribers really enjoyed learning along with us so
00:16we're going to do more of that.
00:18So after today's which is Chab Talak is the name of the piece and it is with Abhida Parveen and
00:30Rahat Vita Ali Khan. That's what we're doing today and then we'll come back to a lesson to learn what
00:37is Raga and there's another one I guess there's a difference between northern and southern styles of music in India.
00:46Which makes sense I mean in every area I mean you look at the U.S. alone I mean how
00:50many different north that came from yeah exactly Carnatic and the Hindustani.
00:58I saw that those terms in the comments as well yeah yeah and so far we've been listening to the
01:04Hindustani which I believe is the northern part if we have that wrong let us know we're going to learn
01:09about that soon but we're excited to hear the music too so we're going to go back and forth a
01:13little bit so hopefully.
01:14Yes we all enjoy the ride together yeah before we do if you haven't already if you'd be so kind
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01:26with this channel here we go I have nothing else to say
01:31for once for once just kidding just kidding are you
01:45it's a tv show maybe I might have to put the copyright on it
02:07she releases the note
02:12mayhmm
02:13me
02:16be
02:18Baji laagi re, dhana dhana mori bhag, baji laagi re, laagi laagi sapk hai, laagi, laagi, laagi, laagi, laagi, laagi,
02:48laagi, laagi, sabk hai, laagi, laagi, laagi, laagi, laagi, laagi, laagi, laagi, toh, jab, janiye, jab, rahe, guru ke seng,
03:05maula, oh, jim, maula,
03:24wow
03:26so pure
03:36so pure
03:46major to minor
03:47so pure
03:57so pure
04:00so pure
04:00so pure
04:26so pure
04:29so pure
04:32so pure
04:33so pure
04:34so pure
04:35wow
04:35wow
04:38all right so this is a long piece so I I'm not gonna stop it often
04:42I'm losing my breath like I'm forgetting to breathe
04:48it's just
04:50it's just like my body because it's not it's not stiff like rigid like a fear thing there's not like
04:55a tension thing it's just it's that feeling of I don't need to like the music is enough does that
05:02make sense
05:03it's just absolutely it's just it's just like a wave of stillness is just like I can just I don't
05:09need any activity this is enough this is as we've discovered and you know have known for a while so
05:19you know we're both into you know meditation spirituality that type of thing I mean there's there's such a just
05:25a spiritual quality quality that's just woven into this music it's just a part of it but this song in
05:32particular is
05:33it's it's it's got more it's uh it's a little less transcendent to me a little more it's almost like
05:39an invocation it's just it's almost like it's calling out to the spirits to come to me as opposed to
05:46that's interesting it's a little less still I mean it is still it still changes my body chemistry when I'm
05:53listening to it it definitely puts me in a meditative state but it's a little bit more of a
05:57a plea to hear that
05:59yeah almost shamanic for lack of a better word it's you know it's like yes calling to to enter this
06:06world kind of thing I did a quick search on the side because I was curious about the song the
06:11origin is the famous poem
06:13and kawali chay talak sab chini I'm sure I'm not saying the names correct but doing my best this was
06:23written by a 14th century sufi mystic
06:27amir kusro in brah vasha a language spoken in north central india and the poem's lyrics reflect the cultural landscape
06:41of north india at the time
06:43interesting yeah so that's where it comes from initially and they said we're gonna we're gonna discover a little bit
06:50more about music from southern india as well
06:53yeah it feels like you're you're you're speaking to the spirits and you're just like witnessing this it's just it's
07:00a wonderful energy
07:02yeah I'm taking a little bit with the lyrics but just just the subtleties of the of the scale and
07:08the inflections
07:09which really is highlighted when the group of I think it's four singers or something when they're singing together in
07:15unison
07:15let me back and they're doing all those little subtle uh pitch variations that that are so foreign to us
07:24and the fact that they're like totally in sync it's it's it's man yeah it's just really impressive yeah
07:30all right let's keep going
07:35spiritual chant that's yeah
07:39yeah
07:41yeah
07:44oh
07:56yeah
07:57yeah
07:58yeah
08:09I'll see you next time.
08:50Oh
09:25Satsang with Mooji
09:39He is magnificent, wow.
10:10He is magnificent, wow.
10:28He is magnificent, wow.
11:20He is magnificent, wow.
11:27He is magnificent, wow.
11:31He is magnificent, wow.
11:44He is magnificent, wow.
11:56I will stop it once more.
11:58Man, I keep tearing up with this.
12:03She has this, I don't know how to describe it.
12:06It's not a huskiness to her voice.
12:08She's got some low overtones, but there's like a scratch that's just...
12:13A little scratch, yeah.
12:14Just enough to just feel, I think that's where that wisdom comes from.
12:18It's kind of like...
12:19Yeah.
12:20You know, it's like the cracks over time is what makes something beautiful.
12:28It's the wrinkles in the face.
12:29It's the things that show that.
12:31And that's in her, the tone of her voice in a way that I found myself...
12:37She starts singing.
12:39I just close my eyes because it just makes me want to cry.
12:42It's like this.
12:43I need to stop talking.
12:45Take it away, Johnny.
12:46I love the balance between the two voices, too.
12:49She kind of grounds the whole thing.
12:50She's sort of...
12:51I guess, to me, she's the one that's calling out to the spirits, and then he comes in, and
12:56he's almost the spirit.
12:57Yes, yes!
12:58He's got this otherworldly thing going on, this high tenor.
13:03I mean, so prescenely clear.
13:06And there was a point where he held out a note, which conventionally people would probably
13:12go to a vibrato at that point after holding out to the note.
13:16He held it out so straight, and the pitch never wavered at all, not even a scent.
13:26And then he continued.
13:27Then he went down into a riff, for lack of a better word.
13:30It didn't even do a long note and then breathe.
13:33He continued the motion down.
13:35For the most part, the song is within a Western scale.
13:39It's like...
13:42But he goes like...
13:48Can I make things...
13:49I don't even want to say minor, but it's...
13:51No.
13:52It's like a half-step variance there.
13:55And that's the cool thing about Indian music, at least from our exposure to it, is it weaves
14:01in and out of keys in such a way, which opens up a lot more musical doors.
14:07It really does.
14:07And I think that's why it's just so interesting to us.
14:11And it's very interesting to me because my role on this show is really to break down the
14:17music.
14:19My role is to cry.
14:23You know, Richard's more the voice expert.
14:25I break down the song structure and the theory.
14:29And there's things that I recognize in this that, you know, the chord progression is pretty
14:33simple.
14:35Pretty much toggles between those two chords for the most part.
14:39Sure.
14:39Drum beat is pretty, you know, it's familiar to me.
14:43Yeah, it is.
14:44Yeah, it's good.
14:45Yeah, I think this is an actual drum set.
14:48So that sounds familiar to me.
14:50But when it gets to the melody, I'm in such a different place than I normally am in because
14:55usually I can recognize everything that's going on for the most part.
14:59There's things that still, like, surprise me here and there.
15:01But for the most part, it's like, I kind of know.
15:04With this stuff, I'm, like, being reverted back to, like, when I was five years old and
15:09discovering something for the first time.
15:10It's like, how do they do that?
15:13Yeah.
15:13So it's a wonderful position to be in that.
15:17It really is.
15:18That wonder state again.
15:19I do want to talk a little bit more about their voices.
15:21To your point, I guess that's why I'm here.
15:24But I'm just so taking it.
15:25I'm just drinking this in.
15:27I'm just kind of drunk on the music here a little bit.
15:30I'm not thinking clearly.
15:32All right, let's continue.
15:40She's still with tabla in the background notes, other percussion layers.
16:20All right.
16:27Indian style doing this.
16:29Both of them are.
16:35All right.
16:36All right.
16:48Pَلْبَلْ جَاَيَ مُوْحِتُ حُّاً کرتی
17:01مرحبتًا ملائی
17:04چھاپ تیلک سب چھیل
17:10مرحبتًا مرحبتًا
17:16I love you.
17:47I tell you, I don't think it's a coincidence that my days, after we watch these videos, my days are
17:54always, they always have a flow to them.
17:56It's just, this starts me off with such a good foot.
18:01Just with being such a great, my foundation in such a great place to face the rest of the day,
18:07we should watch one of these every day, I feel like.
18:10I wouldn't be opposed to doing that.
18:12Right.
18:14Okay, so I mentioned the tabla.
18:17I don't actually think there was one there.
18:18There was a hand drums in the background.
18:20If there was a tabla, it was mixed in, I didn't see it on the set.
18:23But just, it was just like, so it was pitch bent, which you learned a little bit about before we
18:29were talking about the tala and the raga, with the way the melodic expressions and the notation in the percussion
18:39itself moving with the chords and everything.
18:44It was just, it was starting to hear that a little bit more now as we learn, you know, again,
18:51just on the surface learning right now.
18:52So that was kind of cool.
18:55She, as we mentioned, is just a, it's just a nurturing wisdom, feeling tone.
19:03But her move, again, her, her pitch movement.
19:06And when she did a glissando, meaning when you slide to one note to another versus like a step or
19:11a scale, everything was just so intentional.
19:14It was never a search for a note.
19:16It was never a, what am I going to do next?
19:19Everything, even though some of that might have been impromptu for her, just kind of like a organic to the
19:25moment.
19:25I'm sure some of that is present.
19:28It just felt just exquisitely executed.
19:33I can't think of the words to use.
19:35It was just so.
19:37And that's it.
19:38Yeah, that's it.
19:40And, and for him.
19:45He's really good.
19:48For those of you who don't know, now you do.
19:51The pitch accuracy, the breath control, the movement between the registers.
19:56Like he's at this, like you said earlier, I used the word cry or please what you used.
20:01And it's like, even though it felt like he was kind of like responding to her, you know, by design,
20:06the way they kind of a call and answer.
20:08And then they merged at the end a little bit, that plea in his tone had a, had such precision
20:18in, in the fact that it wasn't a, oh, I'm about, my voice is about to break or crack or
20:23do something weird.
20:24Like it had the right amount of stress mixed in with it.
20:28So he had an emotional trigger without it disrupting the ease of control of that pitch and the frequency that
20:36he was projecting.
20:38And in most scenarios, male singers singing those lines, their voice would just, it'd be cracking left and right.
20:45I mean, it's a really difficult space to be.
20:49He's always, he's just on that line, but he's just navigating it effortlessly.
20:54Yeah.
20:55I just, I'm so thankful that the world is as big and diverse as it is because, I mean, that's
21:03just magical to hear the, you know, I love that everything's not the same.
21:07And there's these types of music that are so different from what we're used to and so beautiful and so
21:13exquisite and so magical.
21:14What a treat.
21:15What a treat.
21:16Listen to that.
21:16Thank you everyone for hanging out with us today.
21:20I don't know that I contributed anything outside of crying once again on this channel, but that was awesome.
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