Raga rock is a term used to describe rock or pop music with a heavy Indian influence, either in its construction, its timbre, or its use of instrumentation, such as the sitar and tabla.

The band has issued a wide variety of instruments into their music that are not traditionally associated with use in rock music, including a djembe, sitar, didgeridoo, and bongos on many of their earlier tracks and during live performances, and with the use of a pipa given to the band by rock musician Steve Vai which is played by Einziger n the song " Aqueous Transmission ".

" Time critic Richard Corliss described the songs in her album A Place in the World as " reminiscent of early Beatles or rollicking Motown ," and one reviewer of Time * Sex * Love * noted the " wash of Beach Boys-style harmonies ... backwards guitar loops " and use of a sitar on one track, all elements not commonly found on a country or folk album.

Produced by music legend Ian Molly Meldrum, and written by singing star Johnny Young, the single encompassed high production values and a psychedelic approach in its use of instruments such as a sitar, sampling of a children's choir, and its 6-minute running time ( unusually long for the time ).

The tarana may include a Persian couplet, and may use syllables from sitar or tabla such as " dar-dar " or " dir-dir "; singers might recite full compositions ( e. g. tihais, gats, tukdas ) within the body of the tarana.

" Join the Gang " was a rare excursion into contemporary youth culture, an acerbic observation of peer pressure and drug use, which included sitar in its instrumentation as well as a musical quotation of The Spencer Davis Group's recent hit " Gimme Some Lovin '.

The album also boasted an Eastern influence through its use of the sitar on the tracks " Turn Me On " and " Memory Band ".

Another early use of the sitar in pop was on The Rolling Stones ' hit single " Paint It, Black ", released in May 1966.

Like Harrison's use of sitar, Paul Simon's use of Andean folk instruments ( including the pan flute ) was a pop music " first ".

Subsequent releases have seen the use of dumbek, dholak, duduk, cumbus, sitar, dilruba and violin, as well as guest vocals by Arabic and Carnatic classical singers.

Its primary ones are sitar and tabla, and almost all artists use an electronic or acoustic drum kit and / or synthesizer.

Raga rock is rock or pop music with a heavy Indian influence, either in its construction, its timbre, or its use of instrumentation, such as the sitar and tabla.

The use of a sitar on " Get Set " was praised, as was the Beatles influence and Puig's production.

The band does not use traditional Bengali musical instruments such as the sitar, sarod, sarangi, or tabla.

He challenged the sensibilities of Tagore song listeners with the use of the Spanish guitar, the saxophone, the clarionet, the piano and the cello along with the sitar, the sarode, the esraj and the violin ; and all this in the name of ' interpretation ' and ' freedom of expression '.

There are two popular modern styles of sitar offered in a variety of sub-styles and decorative patterns.

Their signature sound of analogue synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines overlaid with glissando guitars and an electric sitar player became popular as music magazine publishers struggled to deal with the new rift between rock and roll and the burgeoning house music music.

Along with the sitar, it is the most popular and prominent instrument in Hindustani ( northern Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani ) classical music.

In what is arguably the most ironic appearance of the song in popular culture, in the 2003 Canadian film, The Saddest Music in the World, the song is played by the American team in the final round of the competition ( against Serbia ), by a multicultural orchestra consisting of violins, sitar, and Romanian panpipes.

' Muhammed the char wallah walks around the camp all day, selling tea from his urn with his catchphrase “” chai garam chai .” We can also hear him sing the musical interruptions between the scenes, which are mostly popular World War II era hits, accompanied by a sitar.

Orientalism is also traceable in music that is considered to have effects of exoticism, including the japonisme in Claude Debussy's piano music all the way to the sitar being used in recordings by The Beatles.

The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Indian classical music, which is believed to have been derived from the ancient Indian instrument Veena and modified by a Mughal court musician to conform with the tastes of his Persian patrons and named after a Persian instrument called the setar ( meaning " three strings ").

Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s.

Harrison became interested in Indian classical music, bought a sitar and used it to record the song " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )".

Justin Hayward began playing sitar and incorporating it into Moody Blues music (" Voices ...", " Visions of Paradise ", etc.

It has some popularity with musicians playing heavy metal music, although the concept can also be seen in ancient instruments such as the sitar.

Instruments typically used in Hindustani music include the sitar, sarod, surbahar, veena, tanpura, bansuri, shehnai, sarangi, violin, santoor, pakhavaj and tabla.

* How the sitar came to be heard in western pop music

Pakistani hip hop is a blend of traditional Pakistani musical elements with modern hip hop music and is achieved by using various Pakistani languages as well as incorporating traditional percussion like the tabla and dhol and other instrumentation like the sitar.

The vocal quality of sarangi is in a quite separate category from, for instance, the so-called gayaki-ang of sitar which attempts to imitate the nuances of khyal while overall conforming to the structures and usually keeping to the gat compositions of instrumental music.

In the sitar design there are 12-13 mizrÉb, a typical form of plectrum made of steel wire played with a zamzama held in one hand that strikes against mizrâb in a pattern creating a system of music.

This Pardah System of music may have been easily transformed into the design of mizrâb and zamzama in sitar, when played together creating a Pardah System of music, thus providing a proof of Amîr Khusrau ’ s invention of sitar.

Indian immigrants have brought many of their own styles of music and dance, along with instruments like the sitar and tabla.

Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became known in the western world through the work of Ravi Shankar beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s after The Kinks ' top 10 single " See My Friends " featured a low tuned drone guitar which was widely mistaken to be the instrument.

Shortly after, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones used a sitar in " Paint It, Black " and a brief fad began for using the instrument in pop songs.

He was raised in Los Angeles, California, and was named after sitar player Ravi Shankar.

Harrison was captivated by the sound of the instrument ; he soon developed a profound interested in Indian music, culture and spirituality, and sparked a trend by taking sitar lessons from Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, whom Harrison continued to regard as the " best musician on the planet " long after the 1960s and who, coincidentally, had also recorded for The Beatles ' label, EMI.

Released in July 1968, Music from Big Pink was partly responsible for Harrison's return to his first instrument, the guitar, after he'd spent two years attempting to master the more complex Indian sitar.

George Harrison ( of the Beatles ) played the sitar on the song " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )" in 1965, which sparked interest from Shankar, who subsequently took Harrison as his apprentice.

The Beatles song " Norwegian Wood ", which first appeared on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul, was the first western pop song to actually incorporate the sitar ( played by lead guitarist George Harrison ).

The Beatles introduced audiences to many of the major elements of the psychedelic sound during this period, with guitar feedback in " I Feel Fine " ( 1964 ), " Norwegian Wood " from their 1965 Rubber Soul album using a sitar, and the employment of reversed audio tapes on their 1966 B-side " Rain ".

The Twilights, formed in Adelaide, also made the trip to London, recording a series of minor hits, absorbing the psychedelic scene, to return home to produce covers of Beatles ' songs, complete with sitar, and the concept album Once upon a Twilight ( 1968 ).

" When We Was Fab ", a song from the album Cloud Nine, is constructed from quotes about when The Beatles were famous and features Harrison playing a sitar.

In October 1965 Harrison made pop history when he played a sitar on the Beatles ' recording of the John Lennon song " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )", included their 1965 LP Rubber Soul.

The Beatles ' song " Norwegian Wood ", which first appeared on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul, was the first western pop song to actually incorporate the sitar ( played by lead guitarist George Harrison ).

Later, as the counterculture developed, The Beatles began using more advanced techniques and unusual instruments, such as the sitar, as well as more original lyrics.