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If you talk, you can sing. You just need to train your voice and you need to listen very
carefully. I am going to give you some basic exercises called sargam and pulta that will
give you a training to make your voice more flexible to be able to find the notes and
move around. We are dealing with the notes in the scale of Indian music called sa, re,
ga, ma, pa , dha, sa and I am going to be singing these notes in different combinations
and then I am going to repeat what I have sung with just a _____, which is called ____
which is what my girls have taught me to practice and teach vocal music. We have many scales
because there are many ragas so I am going to first demonstrate a major scale, the level,
then a quite minor scale and then a pentatonic. I keep saying scale but I really mean the
scale ____. So the major scale. I want to say about the voice production we are trying
to get like a chest voice with the breathing coming from your stomach rather than a head
voice like in Western music people strive for. You need to try to make no difference
between the voice production, the sound of your voice between the high notes and the
lower notes. So you shouldn't...Don't sing _____. Sing with an open throat as much as
possible. Don't force it out but have it relaxed but open ____.