With the Tour of England coming up in 24 days, its time for me to get down to some serious practice.
My regime consists of mostly evening and night ragas like Bihag, Hameer, Yaman, Naiki Kanada etc to name some of them.
I have decided to break up my practice into 3 sessions of one hour or more throughout the day.I have found this much more interesting than the “practice till you fingers fall off” approach.
An occasional longer practice session is great to shake things up and breaking through sticking points,but keep doing it on a daily basis and soon you will find practicing becoming a duty.And then you take a break from it all (cos you are bored)and now you’ve interrupted the continuity which happens to be key to sustained improvement over any period of time.
For today’s morning session I hit Bihag’s medium tempo gat (madhya laya gat).My focus was long winding movements called taans fusing back into the gat and repeating the process in all possible combos there after.
Any practicing students out there can give a go at my split practice system, tell me how it worked for you in the comments.
ciao for now.
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Hi there,
Breaking up the Riyaz into 3 or more sessions is a very good idea……It’s a very nice psychological approach too….because in a continuous 3 to 4 hour practice we tend to feel that we have done riyaz for about 6 hours…….but if u break this 4 hr continuous riyaz to 3 diff sessions of 1 hr or more we have this thing in mind that my riyaz time is going down and i should pick up the riyaz time in the next session and so on…..the hidden fact is that our enery and riyaz both go up through this method…..
Thanks Bijoy for this valuable suggestion.
One thing which i wanted to ask u is that …..as u talked about the various night ragas….one of them “Raga Hameer”….how to elaborate this raga (which has a very small aera of elaboration) in the Mandra Saptak ??
Waiting for ur valuable suggestions..
Cheers
Gagan.
Hey Gagan,
Glad you liked the idea, try it out sometime and tell me how it feels . Hmm, Hameer is a rather difficult raag in the lower side, especially with all its restrictions and similarities with Bihaag. I will post my views on this very soon right here on the blog, so stay tuned.
Hello Adi,
I just wanted to tell you that your blog is AWESOME. And your achievements are indeed, mind boggling. You are a born artist. I wanted to wish you success and recognition that is truly deserving of your god given talent. Have a great UK trip; you’ll have a blast I am sure, and so will your audience.
Love and Blessings,
Anup Uncle
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