Students start learning by holding and plucking the instrument and then begin to familiarise themselves with the different notes and work on them within rhythmic patterns.
As the students grow more confident, they learn tunes (gaths) based on various raags (melodic scales) and start developing the art of improvisation.
Classes are available on Sundays or Tuesdays.
Famous grand masters of the Sitar include Ustad Vilayat Khan and Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. More contemporary exponents of the Sitar include Niladri Kumar, Anoushka Shankar, Purbayan Chatterjee, Anupama Bhagwat. In the UK we are lucky to have Ustad Dharambir Singh MBE, Roopa Panesar, Jasdeep Singh Degun and more.
