Raag Kedar
राग केदार
Kalyan thaat Also spelled: Kedara
An evening raga of the Kalyan thaat that leans on shuddha Ma. It uses both madhyams, and its winding movement sets it far apart from Yaman.
- Thaat (parent scale)
- Kalyan
- Jati (type)
- Audav – Shadav · 5 notes up, 6 down
- Vadi (king note)
- Ma (Madhyam)
- Samvadi (minister note)
- Sa (Shadaj)
- Varjya swara (omitted)
- Re, Ga (in the ascent); Ga (in the descent)
- Time of singing
- First quarter of the night (early evening)
Scale and structure
Key rule: The leap from Sa straight up to shuddha Ma announces the raga. Tivra Ma appears only around Pa, as in tivra-Ma Pa Dha Pa.
Aaroha (ascent)
सा म, म प, ध प, नि ध सां
Avaroha (descent)
सां नि ध प, म॑ प ध प, म, रे सा
Pakad (catch phrase)
सा म, म प, ध प म, प म, रे सा
Sargam is given in Devanagari, as it is written in practice — a line beneath a note marks it komal (flat), and (मंद्र) marks the lower octave.
Learning this with a teacher
These pages will take you a long way on theory. The singing needs a guru — live online classes, one level at a time, with exam preparation built in.