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All learning paths: Indian Music & Guitar

Learn the connected way:Indian Guitar songs, Carnatic, Rhythm & Chords — step by step, matching your skills and goals.

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Rhythm & Chord Flow Workshop

Gain clarity and confidence in rhythm and chord playing — with step-by-step guided exercises. Watch Shyam play, listen, follow along, confirm, and move to the next step. Beginner friendly, structured, personal attention.

Starts from the basics: downstrokes, counting, subdivisions, chord flow, variations, song snippets, stroke methods, and real exercises.

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The whole bunch: 100s of video lessons, Tabs, PDFs • Fundamentals and best practices • Indian raga & Film song fluency • Rhythm & Chord connectedness • Carnatic compositions • Sing while Rhythm • Fingerpicking and Chord melody • Finding chords for ragas • Ear training…

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Indian Music on Guitar

Learn to play raga-based music fluently — connecting your guitar with the soulful flow of Indian melodies. A bridge between Western technique and the expressive beauty of Carnatic music.

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Sreenath

Sreenath learned Indian guitar through Shyam’s YouTube lessons and later joined Ragacourses.Through regular guidance and feedback, he grew into a trained teacher and now shares Shyam’s focused, results-oriented method.

Shyam’s approach is clear, efficient, and inspiring. Once you start, you naturally go deeper.”

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Shyam Monk
  • IITian living in Germany. 1998 BTech (JEE AIR 716)
  • playing Indian style guitar 11 years old.
  • Teaching, building instruction systems, since 1.5 decades
  • Peace concerts, sing circles, Indian music on guitar

Use my focus-chunk-skill & other methods for real life projects.

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Beginner Best Practices

You have the right to start learning music playing towards what you like, knowing for sure that you are in the right direction, absorbing the best practices without wrong methods.

Indian Guitar Fluency

Stop hitting notes. Play music. Learn the rules of connected sustained playing. Practice exercises relevant to playing your favorite Indian songs fluent and efficient like it is sung!

Rhythm Chord Ability

Automated rhythm hand. Smooth intelligent transition moves. Underlying mechanics to reduce the time you take to go from 0 to be a consistent rhythm chord player.

Chord Melody & Fingerpicking

Fingerstyle rich playing using song notes and chords at the same time. Better sound when playing alone. 0 to Higher skill level exercises.

Sing while rhythm

Play with family and friends? You play the rhythm while you sing or accompany. How to sync and not go awkwardly out of rhythm? Rhythm hand automation, chord techniques.

Advanced skills

How to find notes and chords on your own? Ear training, improvisation… other musician concerns. Join the family, let us go the path together. Custom solutions – just ask us.

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Path & Practice

  Learning theory, methodology, frameworks, steps we use to systematically and efficiently learn the different skills involved in playing music fluently and connected as we want it. Instead of trying in vain to somehow get the final sound, you understand the sub skills that chunk down the bulk to managable rewarding substeps. Spend your time, energy and money to get the best results as possible:
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  • Indian guitar fluency – raga or film song – how
  • carnatic on guitar – additional
  • rhythm and chord steps
  • the smart chord root & pattern method overview
  • how to find chords steps
  • finding notes on your own – logic
  • learning using songs you like. Why
  • raga improvisation on western instrument – phrasal
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