# Learn Basuri — Resources

# Resources

      A curated map for absolute beginners. Prefer official sites; this room rewrites ideas in our own words.

      
        
          - [Choose a flute](choose.html) · optional [layout calculator](make.html)
          - [Hold & posture](hold.html)
          - [First sound](first-sound.html) (straw + kiss-and-roll)
          - [Breath & long tones](breath.html)
          - [Practice routine](routine.html) — daily plan for *tone* (not Sa–Re–Ga yet)
          - [One hole at a time](ladder.html) → [fingering charts](swaras.html) (reference) → [listen](listen.html) → [alankars](alankars.html) → [songs](songs.html)
          - [Murali](murali.html) · [Carnatic venu](venu.html)

        
      
    
    
      ## 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 (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.