The Hal Leonard Sitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the sitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide serves as an introduction to sitar and its technique as well as the practice theory and history of raga music. This deluxe edition includes 42 audio tracks for demonstration and play-along plus over two hours of video lessons. Lessons include: choosing an instrument; tuning; postures; right- and left-hand technique; Indian notation; raga forms; melodic patterns; bending strings; hammer-ons pull-offs and slides; Tabla and Tanpura practice tracks; changing strings; and much more!