This song is "Chookar Mere Mann Ko, Diya Tune Kya Ishaara" — it's a very popular song from the movie Yaarana, which we're going to learn here. So first of all, let me tell you its notation. I've provided a separate copy of the notation, you can download it too. So this song that will play, we'll sing it a little bit in sargam at the start because the song is very easy. So if we play the first line right now. So it's "Hai Yeh Chookar Mere."
So what's the notation for this? Ga Ga, Re Sa Ni Re, Pa Dha Ni Ni, Sa Re Ga Sa — both of these are available in both forms. It's there in tabs and also in sargam. The song is easier in sargam, that's why I'm telling you by singing in sargam. By the way, you'll get the notes in tabs too. So what did we do to play this? First of all, let's just play its clean notes. Ga Ga Ga — we took it first, meaning F sharp, F sharp, so Ga. Then "Re Sa Ni Re" so Re. Now look, this Ni note that came, this wasn't in our scale, but it's a lower octave note. So we'll always play this before D, meaning this C sharp note. In this, one or two more notes will come from the lower octave, let me tell you those too. One note will come which is our lower octave one that we're playing, the G2 note. The Ni note which was here in the middle octave, and in the lower octave it's at G2. G2 means second fret of the third string. So this will become Pa — that's how it'll be used in this song. Dha means D0 note. Ni means D2 note, and from here our middle octave starts, like this. Okay?
So we played the first line, Ga Ga. Re Sa Ni Re. Then Pa Dha Ni Ni. So these Pa Dha Ni were lower octave notes, so we played Pa Dha Ni Ni.
Then Sa Re Ga Sa, so. Now we have to play this with a formula. What is that formula? We have only two strokes, one P and one S. And all the rest are up strokes, which we call U. Meaning if you simply played one note like this, then what will we call it — U. U means one up stroke. Now while playing fingerstyle, you have to use these two fingers only while playing the note, and you can keep your thumb here if you want, but you'll have to play the bass note continuously, so it's very important to keep it free. So we keep it like this, and whatever the bass note is, this will stay flexible to play. So you take the up stroke with the index finger, take the middle also in up stroke, and the thumb will of course be used for the slap and bass note. So now like we played Ga Ga, so what was the formula?
P U. So to play P, use your index finger for now. Although this should be used alternately, but if your initial [finger movement] doesn't work that much yet, then you can use the index more, but the aim should be that you use both index and middle alternately. Okay, so we played the first note, Ga Ga, meaning P U, and we played this — E2 note is our Ga, and we played it with bass of D0, Ga. Meaning
Ga Ga. Then next line Re Sa Ni Re, so Re is E0, Sa is D3, and Ni is C sharp. So Re Sa Ni and Re again, our E0 came. So Are.
Now what did we do on Ni? We placed the A major chord shape. So that we don't have to search for the bass note, we'll get the bass note automatically if we place the A major chord. So at the start,
Then U U.
Okay, again.
So what was this. Are Sa, now let's come to the next line, Pa Dha Ni, so our Pa Dha Ni. It was sending like this, and its formula too. U U P U means up, up pinch up, so this is up. This is — now this is pinch and this is again up.
So you punch, up. Then the next line is also up, Sa Re Ga Sa,
Now let's complete this. P U, UUPU, UUPU, UUPU
Meaning Ga Ga, Re Sa Ni Re, Pa Dha Ni Ni, Sa Re Ga Sa. and now what do we do, where the line is ending, there we'll give a slap too. Meaning Ga Ga slap Re. Sa Ni Re. Slap, Pa Dha Ni Ni Slap Sa Re Ga Sa. Now let's play this a little bit in natural speed.
So these four lines got covered very easily. Now the next line that comes, the next line that comes is. Pa Pa, meaning Aa Aa, E5 E5 we have to play, and in this we took the bass note of D0. If you want, you can place the D major chord too. P U, or if you want to play open, then you can take D0 A0, any one. Then Ma Ga, meaning
Seven, so we took this. In this we have to do sliding, because — so we won't take any chord, we're going considering this open G major chord and we'll take the fourth string open. Meaning U then Ni Ni Ni Ni, so to take Ni Ni we took this A0, and we took Ni Ni Ni Ni four times in which. So U first time was bass note, rest were up strokes, and the last line Dha Ni Sa Sa, so in Dha Ni Sa Sa. So we kept this out and played it. Here on Sa we did like this, meaning used all the strings, bottom four. Dha Ni so U U. P U, so in place of P we took the chord, your point. Otherwise we could've played it like this too, U U.
We could've played this like this too. So we completed the mukhda (opening verse) of the song, let's see it fully once.
These 4 notes are extra, Ni Dha Sa Ga, which we play like this.
So let's see once again.
So you complete the song and learn its stanza. To play the stanza too, we have to come to the D major chord, and most of the notes are such that they're related to D major only. So in this we'll play Ga Ma Ga. Sa Pa Ga.
So if we hold this chord, then only the pinky has to go up-down to play Ma, the rest of the notes are available in D major. So along with Ga Ma, this Pa that's playing, G2, is lower octave. The rest are all middle octave notes. Sa, and what's its formula?
First and last note we played with bass note, the rest are all up strokes. Meaning
D0 can also be taken as bass, A0 can also be taken. Only first and last were bass notes, all the rest were up strokes, so what was the formula? S U... Now what's the next line? Pa Pa
Sa. Ga Pa Pa Dha Dha Dha Dha Sa, meaning if we talk about frets, then Two Five Five Seven Seven Five Five Seven Seven Ten on the E string. So E I haven't said again and again. But all this is played on E.
Two Five Five Seven Seven Five Five Seven Seven Ten. So to play this, because we're going on a single string, we'll simply take the bass note of D0 and play all the notes like this.
So in this where all did we apply the bass note.
First and second-last note was with bass note, all the rest were up strokes, meaning.
Pa Pa Dha Sa. Now after this, the line that will play with the bar — so here we applied it on the bottom four, or applied the bar on the bottom three, and played. Pa Dha Dha Pa. Now from here too the notes were available. So that's why I said this position is very important. Now the Pa Dha Ni Dha that we're playing, meaning this Pa that's playing, this is the same note as Aa. Which we're playing at B10, because we had to make the bar here at seven, so this note wasn't possible, that's why we replaced this note here, the Pa. Now right next to Pa is exactly Ma, meaning at B8 is Ma, which we used to play E3, and there's Ga. Seven, correct, B7 note that is, this becomes our Ga, meaning this F sharp note that we used to play at E2. So in one way this Pa Ga Re — whether we play Pa Ga Re here at Five, Three, Zero, or whether we play it here at Ten, Eight, Seven and, G nine. It's the same thing. From here we have to play holding the bar, that's why we played these notes. This became Aa G F sharp and E, okay. Now we took this line.
There's only one line that has to be played from outside like this.
So here too the formula was the same. U U U U. Means first and second-last note with bass note, all notes are up strokes.
One thing to note, when you play Pa Pa Ma Re Ga, then this Ni note, C, this is an out-of-scale note, it's a C note, whereas in our scale C sharp is being applied. We call this komal Ni (flat Ni), it has become a flat note here, you have to play it carefully here, so.
And after that we'll connect this song from there itself. Ma Ga then Dha Ni Sa Dha Sa Ga, now let's see once fully how the song will play.
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After this, the stanza.
This I didn't tell in the middle, that when we played this line.
So we have to play it like this, slap. In place of a single slap we played U S. So what was the complete formula? U. S means this — up up slap, we had to play it because there was more time there, so how would it be spent, so we took the slap, so.
This has to be taken holding the D major only. After that
So I think through this lesson a start will be made. You'll also understand the tools a little bit, like when we're taking the bass note, when we're taking the slap. And a little practice can start, and ahead we'll discuss more songs, but in this lesson let's keep it up to here only. This was a basic playing in which we were taking simply a bass note and slap. We can play this with a slightly more advanced method too, which we'll learn ahead, and let me show you for a demo how this will play.