How My Interest Began

 

My Mother always educated my sister and I about music and different historical events. I first got intrigued by watching the Woodstock documentary. I watched Pandit Ravi Shankar play with his tabla player and was wanting to play. The issue was, I could never find a teacher or a sitar to play after I saw that. 

As a teen I forgot all about it until I saw a sitar being played again in the film Mughal-E-Azzam during the scene "Mohe Panghat Pe Nand Lal". The girls in that scene played by fountains and I thought wow sitars are cool. The issue remained the same where to buy and how to learn.

I then went to a piano store and asked the owner and seller. He didn't really know what it was much, I stopped it right there and focused on my Mother's piano she wanted. I left that dream behind until this year.

Since we are in a pandemic, I have decided to take up some stuff I always wanted to learn and do. I am taking Rajasthani dance classes and now it is time to learn Indian Classical Music. I have bought two books to assist me and found a few teachers to help me understand the ragas. This will document my journey all the way.