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RĀGĀKIT
Evening · Peace · Hindustani, evening
Yaman
Peace, devotion, romance
MIDI files
Files are in Sa = C and loop on whole bars. Drag them onto a track in your DAW. The WAV uses the instrument you picked above. Free to use in your releases, royalty-free.
Plays the raga's ascent (aroha) and descent (avaroha), which often skip or zigzag through notes. Tap any key to hear it.
Good to know
Often one of the first major ragas Hindustani students learn, because its movement is clear and its mood is calm.
Its bright sound comes from tivra (sharp) Ma, the one raised note in the scale.
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As shown here, it uses 6 notes going up and 7 coming down.
Its notes are the same as the Lydian mode.
In Carnatic music, the same seven notes form melakarta #65, Mechakalyani.
Grouped under the Kalyan thaat, one of the ten parent scales of Hindustani music.
Spotted a mistake? Corrections from musicians are very welcome in the feedback box below.
Movement
Aroha (up)
NRGM'DNSB D E F♯ A B C
Avaroha (down)
SNDPM'GRSC B A G F♯ E D C
Notes of Yaman
Sargam
S
R
G
M'
P
D
N
S
Western
C
D
E
F♯
G
A
B
C
Solfège
do
re
mi
fi
so
la
ti
do
Pakad
NR,NRG,M'P,M'DP,NDP,GM'PRS
B D · B D E · F♯ G · F♯ A G · B A G · E F♯ G D C
The pakad is the raga's catch-phrase: hear it and you know the raga. Use it as a hook or riff. The MIDI gives you the notes and shape; musicians add slides (meend) and ornaments between the notes, so add your own bends and feel.
Practice singing
RāgāKit sings each note in sargam (Sa, Re, Ga, Ma…), then listens while you sing it back. Turn on the Drone for a steady Sa, and use headphones if you can. Your voice is analysed on this device only: nothing is recorded or sent.
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flat
sharp
Sing any note…
Chords that fit
Every chord uses only this raga's notes. Ragas are traditionally played over a drone, so these are for fusion, film and accompaniment. Tap a chord to hear it.
Home chords: they contain Sa, so they sit best under the melody
Other chords for movement
Why these chords fit
Yaman uses the same notes as C Lydian mode, so these are the chords that scale naturally gives you. What makes it a raga is how the melody moves through those notes.
Every chord is built only from the raga's own notes (for example C = Sa – Ga – Pa), so it won't clash with the melody.
The chord on Sa, C (Sa – Ga – Pa), is major: a bright, settled home.
Its altered note is tivra Ma. Chords that contain it (D and Bm) carry the raga's colour: use them for mood, then return to a home chord.
Home chords contain Sa, so they agree with the tanpura drone and feel settled. The others move away from Sa and pull back toward home, which is what makes a loop feel like it's going somewhere.
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Sa is set to C. Lowercase sargam (r g d n) means komal or flat; M' means tivra or sharp Ma. Solfège uses movable do, so do is always Sa. A dot below a note means the lower octave; a dot above means the upper octave.