Day 1. Introduction to Hindustani classical music and this course.
Day 2. Detailed description of violin and its parts. Holding of Violin and its bow.
Day 3. Bowing on violin and few exercises on bowing on different strings.
Day 4. Playing bow in different speeds and few more exercises on bowing.
Day 5. Holding left hand on violin and playing 4 swaras on one string.
Day 6. Playing 7 basic swaras on Violin on all the four strings with few simple exercises.
Day 7. Playing few simple alankaars with basic swaras.
Day 8. Learning Komal and Teevra swar on Violin with few alankaars using these swaras.
Day 9. Playing five simple Thaats on Violin
Day 10. Playing swaras of Thaat on all the four strings with few exercises.
Day 11. Playing National Anthem on Violin.
Day 12. Introduction to Raag and its important features with some rules.
Day 13. Introduction to Raag Yaman and playing some ‘Swar Abhyaas’ on Violin.
Day 14. Understanding ‘Bandish’ or composition and playing a ‘Madhyalaya Bandish’ of Raag Yaman.
Day 15. Concept of Taan and making small ‘sthai’ ‘Taans’ in Raag Yaman.

Day 16. Practice Session with Tabla.
Day 17. Playing full ‘bandish’ of raag ‘Yaman’ with Sthai Taan and Antara Taan.
Day 18. Playing a song based on Raag Yaman.
Day 19. Concept of ‘Nyaas Swar’ and ‘Alap’. Playing few small ‘Alaps’ of Raag Yaman.
Day 20. Incorporation of ‘Alaps’ in Bandish with Taal.
Day 21. ‘Tihai’ in Hindustani Classical Music- Basic formation and its use with in Bandish.
Day 22. Practice Session with Tabla.
Day 23. Introduction to Raag ‘Bhupali’.
Day 24. Playing Bandish (Composition) of Raag Bhupali.
Day 25. Making few Alaps and Taans in Raag Bhupali and implementing them in the Bandish.
Day 26. Practice Session for performing Raag Bhupali Madhyalay Bandish with Alaps and Taans.
Day 27. Performance and Assessment.

Dr. Devanand Pathak is a B-High graded Violin artist of All Indian Radio (AIR) Lucknow since 2001 and has recorded his music several times for AIR.
His preliminary Taalim (training) started from his father Pandit Umakant Pathak when he was six years old. Later he took up the formal discipleship of Late Prof. R. P. Shastri ji of Banaras Hindu University in a Guru-Shishya Parampara. He obtained Ph.D. in Music from Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh, and is a gold medalist in Sangeet Alankaar, as well as in M. A. in Music. He is also Sangeet Visharad in vocal music.
He is an empaneled artist of Indian council of Cultural Relations, New Delhi and on 2nd Dec. 2019 he has performed in Hyderabad House, New Delhi in the presence of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji and other international guests. Dr Pathak has been highly appreciated by audience across the different cities of India like Kanpur, Jhansi, Lucknow, Banaras, Patna, Guwahati and Mumbai. He has also won the prestigious UP Sangeet Natak Academy Yuva Varg prize in 1993. Dr. Pathak is an Indian classical musician par excellence with ‘Gayaki’ and Tantrakaari style of playing violin.
He was associated with IIT Guwahati from Jan. 2015 to July 2018 as a Visiting Artist in Residence and taught Hindustani classical violin to the students of the institute. Presently, he is working in Media Technology Centre of IIT Kanpur.

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Registration Fees

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