Resources
A curated map for absolute beginners. Prefer official sites; this room rewrites ideas in our own words.
- Choose a flute · optional layout calculator
- Hold & posture
- First sound (straw + kiss-and-roll)
- Breath & long tones
- Practice routine — daily plan for tone (not Sa–Re–Ga yet)
- One hole at a time → fingering charts (reference) → listen (tuner) → alankars → songs
- Murali — end-blown (recorder-like) vs side-blown basuri
- Carnatic venu — 8-hole south Indian flute (Sa = top two)
Free web tutors worth opening
- Radhe Flutes — step-by-step (hold, blow, swaras, alankars)
- Radhe Flutes — straw blowing
- bansuri.com — Start Here (kiss-and-roll embouchure)
- bansuriflute.co.uk — beginners (patience, embouchure, full 6-hole fingering chart across octaves — primary map for this room’s high register)
- chandrakantha.com — bansuri & venu (instrument background)
- Wikipedia — Bansuri (overview, regional names including murali)
- Sound of Bansuri — finger chart (incl. special high-octave fingerings)
- Anubodh — interactive fingering chart (notes that 3rd-octave positions vary by flute)
Quick terms
- Embouchure — lip shape and angle on the blowing hole
- Sa — tonic; match the drone
- Sargam — Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni
- Meend — glide between notes (later skill)
- Basuri / bansuri — bamboo flute (spelling varies)
Credit
Lesson structure here is original prose for Sangeet Yatra, informed by the public tutorials linked above. For live teachers and paid courses, follow those sites’ own terms.
Practice playback uses real bansuri recordings — see samples/bansuri/CREDITS.md (sankalp on Freesound, CC BY 4.0; Ninad_P phrase, CC0).