Ravi & Anoushka Shankar
‘Raag Khamaj’ (1997)
Fill in the blanks after watching the video.
The Hindustani music of India is arranged according to predetermined scales called (5)Khamaj.
The Khamaj scales are (6)improvised; that means as long as they follow the indicated beats, their sequence may be made up as you are going along.
Ravi Shankar’s music influenced many people, and he taught them how to play the sitar. One of these people was George Harrison,
from (7)The Beatles.
Which other rock and roll band used a sitar in their song ‘Paint it Black’? (8)The Rolling Stones
- Word bank
- guitar
- sitar
- tabla
- dahl
- raga
- khamaj
- Japanese
- Indian
- Irish
- improvised
- The Beatles
- The Rolling Stones
- Metallica
- Bon Jovi