POST #046 Harry Manx on Indian Slide Guitar

“Playing in a circular fashion…you would slide up to a note, and the moment you reach it, you’re on your way back down – there’s no stopping. That’s really the basis of Inidan slide guitar. Also, if you want to go from note A to note B when ascending a scale, you will often go from A to C first, then come down to B. Both of these concepts lend a kind of roundness to Indian music, and they are done purposely to imitate the vocal style, which is what they are trying to do with slide guitar in India - Harry Manx

(V M Bhatt plays the Mohan veena. Grooves in a very different way from Western music. - Ed)