Basic Kirtans

Posted On: Wed, 2007-10-17 21:10 by sitapatiShare

This is a repost of an offering I made two years ago. Thirteen basic kirtan melodies with chord charts. I only got round to annotating the first 6, and no-one ever asked for more, so I didn't do them. If I get some feedback asking me to annotate the other 7 I'll do it. Even better, why don't you do it and contribute the annotations? :-) I might make small videos showing how to play them as well.

At the moment the basic chords are there so you can play along with bass, guitar, harmonium, accordion, or whatever. Eventually we'll put the melody notes in as well (they go on the bottom line, under the mantra).

I originally devised this system to be used with the sa-ga-re-ma (sargam) Indian system of musical notation, because it's key agnostic, which means that with one song sheet you can do the kirtan in any key. However, in the interests of a shallower learning curve we've released this one using the Western C-D-E type system of notation.

These kirtans are simple three chord melodies ala Harer Nama Volume 1 by Sri Prahlad.

Here are the tracks from the Basic Kirtans 1 CD:

Track 1: Tuning notes
Track 2: Intro 1
Track 3: Mantra 1
Track 4: Mantra 2
Track 5: Mantra 3
Track 6: Mantra 4
Track 7: Mantra 5
Track 8: Mantra 6 (double time)
Track 9: Mantra 7 (double time)
Track 10: Mantra 8
Track 11: Intro 2
Track 12: Mantra 9
Track 13: Mantra 10

And here is the accompanying booklet, in .xls form:

Basic Kirtans 1 Tracks 1-6 (.xls)

and in pdf form:

Basic Kirtans 1 Tracks 1-6 (.pdf)

You'll also want these chord diagrams for harmonium:

Chord Diagrams

Enjoy!

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Anonymous (not verified) | Mon, 2010-07-26 02:06

Hi, your web site looks neat, I am anxious to learn the mantras and share bahkti yoga, please fix the audio link so we can keep learning and share the music. Namaste

Sita pati, The link for the

OZ (not verified) | Fri, 2009-10-23 02:56

Sita pati, The link for the chord diagrams doesn't seem to work.

Hare Krishna! These are

Anonymous (not verified) | Sat, 2009-09-05 02:31

Hare Krishna!
These are great, thankyou..but the audio links don't work?

Thank you for posting these

Anonymous (not verified) | Thu, 2009-04-16 17:18

Thank you for posting these Kirtans. Music is a beautiful offering. Namaste.

chords of harmonium

govindanandadas | Wed, 2009-07-29 02:45

jaya prabhu, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
PLease accept my humble obleicenses!

Prabhu, could you send me full chord diagrams for harmonium?
I learned a lot with your help .

THanks very much!!!!!!!

YOur servant and friend,

Govindananda das
govindananda@hotmail.com

Hare Krishna Sita-pati

Bhakta micha | Mon, 2008-03-17 13:54

Hare Krishna Sita-pati prabhu, pamho,agtSP!
I want to load the chord diagrams, but I think the link is out of order.
Please tell me what I can do to get them.
Lot of mercy,
y.s. micha

Please try it now - I've

sitapati | Tue, 2008-03-18 01:20

Please try it now - I've updated the page and it should be fixed.

Chords and music for the bhajans

Braja Hari das (not verified) | Mon, 2010-03-08 04:16

Dear Sita Pati prabhu,

Hare Krishna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please accept my humble obeisances.

Prabhu, I cannot get to the chord charts for the bhajans (Not even one of them works.) Could I request you to please email me the chord charts you mention on your page? I am learning how to play the harmonium and know how to play some bhajans with their notes, but cannot play the melodies with the chords yet.

LINK BROKEN

radhakrysna | Wed, 2008-01-23 20:38

Hare Krishna!

Please,

I would like to do the download to the link to "Track 10: Mantra 8", but it is broken.

How can I do the download?

Thank you very much.

I asked for more :(

brinda | Sun, 2007-10-21 11:40

Hare Krsna, I asked before for more melodies, but I think you havent seen it. You can see my previous message. Pls do the others melodies with chord charts.

"Hare Krsna.. this is perfect methot to learn. I cant beleive myself that I can follow the way and play the melodies. thanks a lot. But unfortunatly I cannot play the melodies which does not have chords in .xls file. I can play just six tracks which the chords are given. Is it posibble to have other melodies chords? It is very usefull. Please please publish it too. Haribol
Posted by Brinda Devi Dasi | Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 at 5:49 PM "

Gauranga!
ys. Brirnda d.d