Gamaka

I'm sure most of your listeners kind of know what that is.

But for anybody who is curious, gamaka is often the way that notes connect with each other.

The way that we...

Some people call it ornamentation.

But, um, we have one way of thinking about harmony and saying, we have all of these notes in said Raga, say Raga Kiravani.

Um, Raga Kirovani, you can sing every note plain and then it still retains Kirovani flavor.

Of course, you can sing it with all the gamakas, make it as Carnatic-y as you want.

You can make it as Hindustani-y as you want, because, I mean, Hindustani compositions in Kirovani exist as well.

music.

These are special glissandos called gamakas.

Gamakas are there both in Hindustani and Carnatic.

But Carnatic gamakas are very different compared to Hindustani.

Now the western major scale.