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[ Home ](/en-gb) 2. 3. [ Academy ](academy) 4. 5. [ Indian Slide Guitar ](/en-gb/course/indian-slide-guitar) 6. 7. Advanced Level Advanced Level — Indian Slide Guitar Advanced Levels 3A–3C Indian Slide Guitar · Indian Slide Guitar # Advanced Level A three-level Indian Slide Guitar programme with nine modules across Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced. Any of our slide guitar teachers can teach it. - 3 modules - 36 topics [ View curriculum ](#curriculum) Your learning journey ## Curriculum 36 topics Sanchari · 3A Rendering a Raga at Depth Sanchari · 3B Ornament, Jhala and Time of Day Sanchari · 3C The Concert ### Sanchari 3A · Rendering a Raga at Depth 12 topics: 8 core + 4 of 6 electives #### Core topics Every learner takes these 8 1. Topic 01 #### How to Render a Raga: Lines Compared The order of a full rendering (alaap, jod, jhala, gat) and how two slide lines pace it differently. **Ready to move on when:** You can outline a fifteen-minute rendering and say where two recorded renderings differ in pacing. **Resources:** Notes: the shape of a rendering · Listening: one raga in two slide lines (suggested) 2. Topic 02 #### Advance Learning in the First Raga Take the first raga (suggested: Yaman) to full depth: rare phrases, the upper register, the vistar order. **Ready to move on when:** You can play a ten-minute alaap in the raga that your teacher accepts. **Resources:** Demo video · Tanpura track · Reference rendering 3. Topic 03 #### Composition and Taan Patterns in the First Raga A gat in the first raga with six taans at fast laya. **Ready to move on when:** You can play the gat with six taans at fast laya, each landing on sam. **Resources:** Notation: gat and taans · Teentaal tabla track 4. Topic 04 #### Alankar at Speed The alankar set at drut laya, both hands clean. **Ready to move on when:** You can play the alankar set at drut laya with every swara heard. **Resources:** Notation: the alankar set · Metronome or lehra track 5. Topic 05 #### The Intricacies of Teentaal: Divisions and Laykari Teentaal's vibhags as places to start and end phrases, and phrases in tigun and chaugun. **Ready to move on when:** You can play phrases in tigun and chaugun that end on sam. **Resources:** Teentaal lehra track · Notes: laykari 6. Topic 06 #### Advance Learning in the Second Raga The second raga (suggested: Bhupali) at full depth. **Ready to move on when:** You can play a ten-minute alaap and jod in the raga that your teacher accepts. **Resources:** Demo video · Tanpura track · Reference rendering 7. Topic 07 #### Guided Rendering Rehearsal A full fifteen-minute rendering of one raga to your teacher, stopped and corrected. **Ready to move on when:** Your teacher hears the rendering through with the arc intact. **Resources:** Your recordings from this module 8. Topic 08 #### Module 3A Review: Rendering and Hand Under Load Present a rendering, and check that posture and bar contact hold at speed. **Ready to move on when:** Your teacher closes the module after reviewing your presentation and sees no hand fault at drut laya. **Resources:** Checklist: what the presentation covers · Checklist: posture and hand #### Electives Your teacher picks 4 of these 6 with you - Elective #### Composition and Taan Patterns in the Second Raga A gat in the second raga with six taans. **Ready to move on when:** You can play the gat with six taans at fast laya, each landing on sam. **Resources:** Notation: gat and taans · Teentaal tabla track - Elective #### Advance Learning in a Third Raga A third raga (suggested: Durga) at full depth. **Ready to move on when:** You can play a ten-minute alaap in the raga that your teacher accepts. **Resources:** Demo video · Tanpura track - Elective #### Double Strings Together Two main strings sounded together under the bar, both in tune. **Ready to move on when:** You can play a phrase on two strings with both pitches true. **Resources:** Demo video · Tanpura track - Elective #### Style: Maihar Drills at Drut Laya The Allauddin Khan palta set at drut laya. **Ready to move on when:** You can play five Maihar paltas at drut laya, both hands clean. **Resources:** Notation: Maihar paltas (needs making) · Metronome - Elective #### Style: Da-Ra Coordination While Sliding Right-hand strokes kept even while the bar moves, as the Kabra instrument asks. **Ready to move on when:** You can play a meend phrase with Da-Ra strokes that stay even through the glide. **Resources:** Demo video, both hands in view - Elective #### Style: Mohan Veena Taans Taan shapes of the Mohan veena line, with its harmonic strings sounding under them. **Ready to move on when:** You can play four taans in the manner your teacher demonstrates, landing on sam. **Resources:** Demo video · Listening: a Mohan veena gat (suggested) ### Sanchari 3B · Ornament, Jhala and Time of Day 12 topics: 8 core + 4 of 6 electives #### Core topics Every learner takes these 8 1. Topic 01 #### Morning and Evening Forms How morning and evening ragas differ in swara, movement and mood. **Ready to move on when:** You can name three features that place a raga in the morning or the evening. **Resources:** Notes: raga time and form 2. Topic 02 #### Advance Learning in a Morning Raga A morning raga (suggested: Ahir Bhairav) at full depth. **Ready to move on when:** You can play a ten-minute alaap in the raga that your teacher accepts. **Resources:** Demo video · Tanpura track · Reference rendering 3. Topic 03 #### Composition and Taan Patterns in the Morning Raga A gat in the morning raga with six taans. **Ready to move on when:** You can play the gat with six taans at fast laya, each landing on sam. **Resources:** Notation: gat and taans · Teentaal tabla track 4. Topic 04 #### Ornament Drills: Gamak, Murki and Krintan Gamak, murki and krintan as named drills, then placed on request in a phrase. **Ready to move on when:** You can place each of the three ornaments where your teacher names it. **Resources:** Demo video · Notation: ornament drills 5. Topic 05 #### Laykari and Tihai Placement A tihai is a phrase played three times to land on sam. Place tihais at the end of phrases. **Ready to move on when:** You can play three tihais that land on sam from different starting beats. **Resources:** Notation: tihais · Teentaal lehra track 6. Topic 06 #### Drut Jhala Jhala at fast laya, building to a close. **Ready to move on when:** You can play two minutes of jhala rising to drut laya and closing cleanly. **Resources:** Demo video · Reference recording 7. Topic 07 #### Performance Simulation with Tabla A twenty-minute set with a tabla player, run as if to an audience. **Ready to move on when:** Your teacher hears the set through with tabla and no stop. **Resources:** Tabla player or tabla track · Checklist: a set 8. Topic 08 #### Module 3B Review Present a morning-raga rendering with ornaments, tihais and jhala. **Ready to move on when:** Your teacher closes the module after reviewing your presentation recording. **Resources:** Checklist: what the presentation covers #### Electives Your teacher picks 4 of these 6 with you - Elective #### Advance Learning in an Evening Raga An evening raga (suggested: Bihag) at full depth. **Ready to move on when:** You can play a ten-minute alaap in the raga that your teacher accepts. **Resources:** Demo video · Tanpura track - Elective #### Ektaal: a Vilambit Gat Frame Count Ektaal at slow laya and fit a gat line into it. **Ready to move on when:** You can play a gat line over a vilambit Ektaal lehra for two cycles, landing on sam. **Resources:** Ektaal lehra track · Notation: the gat line - Elective #### Listening: One Raga, Three Renditions Three renditions of one raga by different instrumentalists, compared for structure and pacing. **Ready to move on when:** You can lay out the structure of each rendition and say where they diverge. **Resources:** Listening: three renditions (suggested, teacher to confirm) - Elective #### Style: Ravi Shankar, Barun Kumar Pal and the Sitar Line Pandit Ravi Shankar on sitar and Pandit Barun Kumar Pal on Hansa veena in one raga. **Ready to move on when:** You can name two things the Hansa veena keeps from the sitar and one it changes. **Resources:** Listening: one raga by each (suggested, teacher to confirm) - Elective #### Style: Vocal-Led Taans Taans built from sung phrases, as the chaturangui line takes them from vocal music. **Ready to move on when:** You can sing and then play four taans with the played shape matching the sung one. **Resources:** Demo video · Listening: a vocal taan passage (suggested) - Elective #### Style: Gamak Taans of the Sarod Line Taans with gamak on every swara, from the Maihar sarod repertoire. **Ready to move on when:** You can play two gamak taans at medium laya with every swara's centre clear. **Resources:** Demo video · Notation: gamak taans (needs making) ### Sanchari 3C · The Concert 12 topics: 8 core + 4 of 6 electives #### Core topics Every learner takes these 8 1. Topic 01 #### Review of Advanced Repertoire and Weak Links Find the weakest raga or technique from 3A and 3B and work on it. **Ready to move on when:** Your teacher hears the weak item fixed in a cold run. **Resources:** Your 3B presentation recording 2. Topic 02 #### Advance Learning in a Concert Raga The raga you will present (suggested: Charukeshi), taken to full depth with its gat and taans. **Ready to move on when:** You can play a fifteen-minute rendering of the raga that your teacher accepts. **Resources:** Demo video · Tanpura track · Notation: gat and taans 3. Topic 03 #### Andolan and Pitch Under Ornament A slow swing on a swara (andolan), with the pitch kept true under every ornament. **Ready to move on when:** You can place andolan on request and keep the swara's pitch true. **Resources:** Demo video · Tanpura track 4. Topic 04 #### Tihai Arithmetic Build tihais by counting: the phrase, the gaps and the landing, across three cycles. **Ready to move on when:** You can compose and play a tihai that lands on sam after three cycles. **Resources:** Notes: tihai arithmetic · Teentaal lehra track 5. Topic 05 #### Composing a Gat Compose a gat in a raga you play, notate it, and play it. **Ready to move on when:** Your teacher accepts your notated gat and your recording of it. **Resources:** Notes: how a gat is built · Notation template 6. Topic 06 #### Teaching a Foundation Topic Under Supervision Teach one Foundation topic to a learner with your teacher watching. **Ready to move on when:** Your teacher accepts your session, and the learner meets the topic's finishing line. **Resources:** The Foundation topic you teach · Notes: running a session 7. Topic 07 #### Concert Rehearsal: Programme and Running Order Set the thirty-minute programme, the order and the timings, and run it with tabla. **Ready to move on when:** Your teacher accepts the programme and hears it run once to time. **Resources:** Tabla player or tabla track · Template: running order 8. Topic 08 #### The Concert: Judged Stage Performance A thirty-minute programme with tabla to an audience, judged. **Ready to move on when:** The judges pass the performance. **Resources:** Your running order · Checklist: what the judges assess #### Electives Your teacher picks 4 of these 6 with you - Elective #### Vistar: Extended Elaboration Twenty minutes of vistar that keeps building without repeating itself. **Ready to move on when:** You can sustain twenty minutes of vistar that your teacher accepts. **Resources:** Reference recording · Teentaal tabla track - Elective #### Advance Learning in a Seasonal Raga A monsoon raga (suggested: Megh) at full depth. **Ready to move on when:** You can play a ten-minute alaap in the raga that your teacher accepts. **Resources:** Demo video · Tanpura track - Elective #### Jhaptaal: a Gat in Ten Beats Count Jhaptaal and play a gat in it. **Ready to move on when:** You can play the gat over a Jhaptaal lehra for four cycles, landing on sam. **Resources:** Jhaptaal lehra track · Notation: the gat - Elective #### Style: A Dhun to Close the Set A light-classical dhun of the kind the Kabra line closes a programme with. **Ready to move on when:** You can play the dhun as a closing item that your teacher accepts. **Resources:** Notation: the dhun (teacher's choice) · Listening: Call of the Valley (suggested) - Elective #### Style: Light-Classical Slide with Accompaniment A light-classical piece in the Mohan veena manner, played with an accompanist. **Ready to move on when:** You can play the piece with an accompanist, keeping time and tune together. **Resources:** Notation: the piece (teacher's choice) · Accompaniment track - Elective #### Style: A Sarod-Line Gat with Taans A gat from the Maihar sarod repertoire, played with taans on the slide. **Ready to move on when:** You can play the gat with four taans at fast laya, each landing on sam. **Resources:** Notation: the gat (teacher's choice) · Teentaal tabla track Advanced pathway ## How this level progresses 3 structured modules, taken in order. Modules are taken in sequence 1. 3ALevel 3A ### Sanchari 3A · Rendering a Raga at Depth Topics 12 topics 2. 3BLevel 3B ### Sanchari 3B · Ornament, Jhala and Time of Day Topics 12 topics 3. 3CLevel 3C ### Sanchari 3C · The Concert Topics 12 topics Your teachers ## Choose your teacher These teachers teach this level. ### Debasis Chakroborty Indian slide guitarist, Senia-Maihar gharana Pandit Debasis Chakroborty, an Indian slide guitarist of the Senia-Maihar gharana, is the senior-most disciple of Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra, and his playing reflects Kabra's style. - Indian Slide Guitar - Senia-Maihar Gharana Experience 34+ years of teaching Students taught 3000+ [ Learn with this teacher ](/en-gb/course/indian-slide-guitar/advanced/debasis-chakroborty) Next steps ## Ready to begin Advanced? Begin Advanced Level. [Back to Indian Slide Guitar](/en-gb/course/indian-slide-guitar)