How to give chords for Carnatic or Hindustani Music – Basic overview
I love Carnatic or Hindustani music – one of the best music genres in the world (for me!), and very difficult to master! One of the best concepts I like from western music is Chords – they are so divine! Music directors like M.S Vishwanathan & Ilayaraja introduced Chords to the Carnatic ragams through cinema songs and A R Rahman modernized it and took it to a different level. One of the things that I notice when parents put their children in keyboard music class in India is that they put them in the Carnatic style of keyboarding, which unfortunately does not focus on chords. I believe that keyboard (ideally piano) should be learnt the western way and not the Carnatic or Hindustani style. If someone can play the keyboard in the western style, it is easy to play Hindustani or Carnatic. So how to give Chords to Carnatic music? It is actually very simple concept and one does not need to learn the western Chord structure to learn to give chords for Carnatic music, while knowing it defi