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Hello! I'm Amy Matushevsky and this lesson is the introduction to a Hindustani voice
or Hindustani vocal music. In the music of India, we believe that vocal music is the
source of anything else that you might play. It all begins with the voice and the voice
connects with the nod which is the cosmic sound of the universe which is a mystical
phenomenon. So when we sing sa or ohm, we are actually becoming one with a force that
is much greater than we are. Sa, ohm. Many singers begin their performance with ohm for
sa or the first note. Sa is like doh in the western scale. What I have just done is sing
for you something like a major scale which is there in India music as well and you may
have noticed that the difference is in the voice production and the connectiveness of
the note. They are all flowing from one to another and we sing in a slightly more nasal
way and we use our voice in a way that is quite close to our spoken voice.