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Kartal Lesson 5: Basic Sounds

Basic Kartal Sounds You can split the anatomy of the kartal into two sides: the outer edge towards the rim of the cymbal, and the centre where there is a dip. We'll explore this more when learning how to hit the kartals. Essential to playing the kartals in kirtan is learning to produce clear sounds. In later lessons where we introduce various bols or strikes of the kartal we will give each sound a specific name to aid our learning, but for basic kartal playing, understanding how to produce an open sound and a closed sound will suffice. Open sounds are produced by striking one of the kartals with the other kartal, and letting it bounce away so one or both can resonate. You can use your strongest hand as the active hitting hand to hit the weaker hand which should remain quite still. This should produce a nice resonant sound. It rings like a bell. There are various to produce this sound as we will shortly discuss. For now, keep it simple and pick one of the ways shown and practice until you feel comfortable producing a clear sound. Closed sounds sound more like a clap and are produced by striking the kartals and not letting them resonate. Again, there are various methods and for now pick one and practice with that. You can use your thumb or your finger to close and open the sounds. I recommend the fingers, as shown in the holding kartals video, as this is how we will learn the more advanced rhythms later on. On the open sounds, if you hold one kartal to stop it ringing and only let one sound clearly, then a clear sound will be produced which is not too loud and also will avoid many of the disharmonious problems if the kartals are tuned differently. But they tuned nicely, it can be sweeter to have both resonate. It is important to practice making open and closed sounds effortlessly. Great explanation of the two sounds with nice audio examples: http://kksongs.org/kartal/lesson01.html www.mikeyjay108.org